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Special Duties was created in October 1977 by schoolfellows Steve Green (Aka Arrogant), Steve Norris (Aka Duty) and Nigel Baker. They were punks at school, but the idea of forming their own band came when they saw The Adverts in Colchester. The fact that the three schoolboys couldn't play and didn't own any instruments didn't discourage them.
Adolescents (band) The Adverts; Agent Orange (band) Alex Harvey (musician) The Alley Cats (Los Angeles) Alternative TV; Amazorblades; Amebix; Angelic Upstarts; Angry Samoans; Anti-Nowhere League; Anti-Pasti; Au Pairs; The Avengers; Art Attacks
Special Duties [2] [3] The Threats; Deadman's Shadow; Riot Squad; Anti-Pasti [2] The label also featured some bands from the new wave of British heavy metal, including Witchfynde, [1] who toured with Def Leppard in their early days. The label had some success with Special Duties, Anti-Pasti and Witchfynde, whose songs and albums reached the ...
Both songs were included in a compilation of Special Duties' singles which was released in 2000. [1] It was later re-recorded in 2006 to raise money for the Teenage Cancer Trust in memory of fan of the club, Emily Begg who had been suffering from leukemia and had died earlier that year aged fourteen. [2]
The Tubes' third album Now (1977) was an attempt to write less satirical songs with the band sharing song writing duties with Bill Spooner. It was recorded while the band was playing a special engagement on weekends at The Whisky in Los Angeles.
Lieutenant (Special Duties) (Band) Donald Carpenter – Royal New Zealand Navy. Lieutenant Commander John Trevor Herd – Royal New Zealand Navy. Warrant Officer Class II Brian Michael Colbourne – Royal New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps. Warrant Officer Class I Ernest Mathew Dix BEM – Royal New Zealand Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
The new line-up (still known as the Special AKA) finally issued a new full-length album In the Studio in 1984. Officially, the band was now a sextet: Dakar, Campbell, Bradbury, Dammers, Shipley and new bassist Gary McManus. Dammers then dissolved the band and pursued political activism. [7] The first reunion under the Specials name occurred in ...
The Specials, also known as The Special AKA, were an English 2 tone and ska revival band formed in 1977 in Coventry. [4] After some early changes, the first stable lineup of the group consisted of Terry Hall and Neville Staple on vocals, Jerry Dammers on keyboards, Lynval Golding and Roddy Radiation on guitars, Horace Panter on bass, John Bradbury on drums, and Dick Cuthell and Rico Rodriguez ...