THIS ISSUE: Phil Brett remembers Terry Hall of the Specials.
A few weeks before Christmas—the time of year when all public spaces are required by law to play Mariah Carey on an endless loop—this writer was pushing a trolley idly around a London supermarket. I was over by the fresh veg when the distinctive, Hammond-driven intro of the Specials’ “Ghost Town” was piped through. Heads nodded. Some shoppers started to sing along.
Weeks later, I heard Specials front-man Terry Hall had died, of pancreatic cancer. Memories came flooding back. One was of that moment in the supermarket, which encapsulated
