Ska'd for Life: A Personal Journey with The Specials

A warmly humorous insider's account of The Specials by bass player Horace Panter.

ISBN-13: 9780330440738

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Publication Date: 06-01-2008

Pages: 320

Product Dimensions: 5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.85(d)

Horace Panter is the former bass player with The Specials, General Public, and Specialbeat.

Table of Contents

Foreword   Phill Jupitus     xi
Introduction     xv
Once Upon a Time in Kettering and Coventry     1
Hybrids, Jaywalkers and Automatics     16
The French Letter: The Special AKA goes to Paris     48
Ska     61
The Dawning of a New Era     86
The Two-Tone Take-Over     103
1980: Europe     126
Amerika     134
Downhill All the Way in a Mobile Lunatic Asylum     174
Working for the Rat Race     188
The Specials Go to Japan and Don't Enjoy Themselves     210
The International Jet Set     234
Power Plays, Mosquitoes and Ghost Towns     261
Going West. The Specials Finally Fizzle Out in America     277
Epilogue     289
Index     295 Show More