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Roger Charlery (22 February 1963 – 26 March 2019), known professionally as Ranking Roger, was an English musician. He was a vocalist in the 1980s ska band the Beat (known in North America as the English Beat) and later new wave band General Public .
The album was produced by Ranking Roger and he often guested with the band at some of their shows. The International Beat toured the UK and United States until 1992. [citation needed] Ranking Roger also briefly joined Mick Jones' post-Clash band Big Audio Dynamite and performed at several live shows with the band. However, the band broke up ...
This is the discography of British 2-tone/ska band the Beat (known as the English Beat in the US and Canada) and its subsequent incarnations as the Beat featuring Ranking Roger based in the UK, and the English Beat starring Dave Wakeling based in the US.
Sales were less than earlier albums, however, and Roger became tired of traveling to America, and they soon broke up again. Since 2004, Dave Wakeling has toured the US with a full backing band as the English Beat. They often perform General Public tracks. [3] "Ranking" Roger Charlery died at his home in Birmingham on 26 March 2019 at the age of 56.
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Special Beat Service is the third studio album by the British ska band the Beat, released on 1 October 1982 by Go-Feet Records.Like the rest of their material, it was released in the US under the name "the English Beat".
The line-up contained MC vocals by Joe Attard of Punks Jump Up, Ranking Roger of the Beat and General Public and drummer Bob Wond of Under Two Flags. In 1998, the band launched a new website, primarily intended as a means to distribute songs from the Entering a New Ride album. In 2001, after having only released 6 songs from the album, the ...
Ranking Roger's album Pop Off the Head Top includes a new remix version of "Mirror in the Bathroom" produced by Gaudi. [citation needed] The song is included in the soundtracks of the films Someone to Watch Over Me (1987), [citation needed] Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), [11] and SLC Punk! (1999), by a project called Fifi. [citation needed]