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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 .
In late 2013, the Beat with Ranking Roger released the live album, Live in London which featured a new song titled "How Do You Do (Side to Side)" and also a song previously released solo by Ranking Roger, entitled "Dangerous", among many other songs. The Beat feat. Ranking Roger released Bounce, a studio album, on 30 September 2016, on CD ...
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.
Roger Charlery, aka Ranking Roger, the singer and toaster from the English Beat, General Public and Special Beat, died today after a battle with cancer, a rep for the band confirmed to Variety.
Pages in category "Songs written by Ranking Roger" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Trouser Press shared these sentiments, finding the loping music, effervescent sax and playful mixing of vocalists to "almost obscure the songs' depressing views of personal and social troubles," something they felt was "not out of character" for the band." [15] Ranking Roger noted: "The music was happy, the lyrics sad. We always had a yin-yang ...
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]
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".