ORACE Panter (aka Sir Horace Gentleman, bass player of The Specials) recalls his first meeting Jerry Dammers. “He was this strange mod character with sideburns and tartan trousers who whistled skinhead reggae and pounded out Fats Domino and boogie-woogie on the pub piano.” It’s an image worth preserving, because in , the story of 2 Tone – the label founded by Dammers – is disputatious, colourful and rife with contradictions. At the centre of the collage is Dammers, a perfectionist and reluctant delegator who
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Oct 12, 2023
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