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The Selecter is an English 2 tone ska revival band, formed in Coventry, England, in 1979.. The Selecter featured a diverse line-up, both in terms of race and gender, initially consisting of Arthur 'Gaps' Hendrickson and Pauline Black on lead vocals, Neol Davies and Compton Amanor on guitar, Desmond Brown on Hammond organ, Charley 'Aitch' Bembridge on drums, and Charley Anderson on bass.
Belinda Magnus OBE DL (born 23 October 1953), better known as Pauline Black (Listen ⓘ), is an English singer, actress and author.. In a music career spanning over 40 years, Black came to prominence in the late 1970s as the lead singer of the 2 Tone ska revival band the Selecter, which released four singles that entered the Top 40 charts in the United Kingdom during the 1970s and the 1980s ...
Members of the British 2-Tone ska band The Selecter. Pages in category "The Selecter members" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
Neol Edward Davies (born 26 April 1952) [1] is an English musician, composer and original member and founder of 2 tone ska revival band the Selecter.. Born in Coventry, [1] Davies wrote the instrumental tune "The Selecter" from which the band got their name in 1979.
Made in Britain is the twelfth studio album by English ska and 2 Tone band The Selecter, released in 2011 on Vocaphone Records, their first album for the label.After reforming in 2010, Made in Britain was conceived after a PR company requested lead vocalist Pauline Black record a new album with the Selecter to coincide with her autobiography Black by Design.
Too Much Pressure is the debut studio album by the English 2 tone ska revival band the Selecter.After the band's official formation in 1979 in Coventry, following the release of a song entitled "The Selecter" by an unofficial incarnation of the band, the band's hit single "On My Radio" prompted their labels 2 Tone and Chrysalis to ask the band to record their debut album.
The Selecter's second album Celebrate the Bullet (1981) was a commercial failure, and the band split-up shortly after its release. [1] Lead singer Pauline Black moved into acting and writing work as well as undergoing a short solo career under Chrysalis Records, who released her unsuccessful cover version of "I Can See Clearly Now", originally by Jimmy Cliff. [1]
B.J. Cole plays pedal steel guitar on "Sugar Town".. Pucker! marks another stylistic deviation for the band. According to Terry Rompers of Trouser Press, the album is mostly a "mild-mannered version" of the band's ska roots, "clinging to the familiar peppy keyboard, bass, guitar and snare syncopation of ska," but also adding giddy elements from new wave music and power pop. [2]