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"Our Lips Are Sealed" is a song co-written by #JaneWiedlin, guitarist of #theGoGos, and #TerryHall, singer of #theSpecials and #FunBoyThree. It was first recorded by the Go-Go's as the opening track on their first album, #BeautyAndTheBeat (1981), and was released as their debut single in June 1981. The single eventually reached the top three in Australia and Canada as well as the top 20 in the United States. Originally written and performed with three verses.
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In memory of the great and unforgettable Terry Hall 💔
March 19, 1959 – December 18, 2022
The Specials – Too Much Too Young
#punkrock #ska #skalegends #skabands #skamusic #terryhall #thespecials #2tone #history #punkrockhistory #otd
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Remembering Terence Edward Hall, English musician and lead singer of The Specials, born on this day in 1959, Coventry, England.
Photo by Eugene Adebari
#punkrock #ska #skalegend #thespecials #2tone #terryhall #history #skahistory #otd
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AlternateFridayMusic
Jan 2 2026
We start the year with #HopeThe Specials, “We Sell Hope” from “Encore” (2019)
The Specials were the cornerstone of UK second-wave #ska, with mastermind Jerry Dammers founding 2Tone Records.
They came together in the late 70s and splintered in the early 80s, coming back together in a variety of permutations with members of their 2Tone label mates and others, but came closest to a true reunion after reuniting for a 30th Anniversary tour in 2009, with Terry Hall back on vocals, albeit sans Dammers.The Specials always had a social conscience, being vocally anti-racist. My sense was they looked around in the late twenty-teens and saw they were needed, delivering their message via their first studio album of new material in many years (depending on how you define "they"). With Terry’s passing in 2022, it became their last.
The title of this track shows their sardonic wit had not dimmed, underlining the chorus giving a litany of Orwellian doublespeak. The down-stepping melody of the verses feels ominous, but by taking the tone of a warning, suggests hope to me; only where there’s hope would a warning matter, and indeed the verses turn sincere, using decidedly sweet vocals to give prescriptive measures for arresting our slide into dark times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8KYo8CY8Uw
#TheSpecials #Specials #ska #TwoTone #2Tone #JerryDammers #TerryHall
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"Our Lips Are Sealed" is a song co-written by #JaneWiedlin, guitarist of #theGoGos, and #TerryHall, singer of #theSpecials and #FunBoyThree. It was first recorded by the Go-Go's as the opening track on their album #BeautyAndTheBeat (1981) and was their debut American single in June 1981. The single eventually reached the top 5 in Australia and Canada, and the top 20 in the United States. Originally written and performed with three verses.
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The Fun Boy Three, The Fun Boy Three, 1982 on Chrysalis
The Fun Boy Three (Terry Hall, Neville Staple, and Lynval Golding) were a spin-off / outgrowth of The Specials. This was their debut, self-titled album with guests Bananarama on four tracks, including a cover of “It Ain’t What You Do (It’s The Way That You Do it),”
Also features “The Lunatics (Have Taken Over The Asylum)” which I love. The album cover back side presents the credits like a movie poster for a film shot in glorious stereo FunboyScope: “Gasp, Wonder, and Thrill to the Sound of the 80s.”
There’s a great BBC documentary—2 Tone The Sound of Coventry—which features lots of interviews with Hall and Staples, though it is more focused on The Specials.
My copy—via A1 records in NYC—is an early 80s Terre Haute pressing which was sealed, with the original hype sticker.
#1980s #1982 #Bananarama #Chrysalis #FunBoyThree #LynvalGolding #NevilleStaple #Specials #TerryHall #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds
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"Our Lips Are Sealed" is a song co-written by #JaneWiedlin, guitarist of #theGoGos, and #TerryHall, singer of #theSpecials and #FunBoyThree. It was first recorded by the Go-Go's as the opening track on their album #BeautyAndTheBeat (1981) and was their debut American single in June 1981. The single eventually reached the top 5 in Australia and Canada, and the top 20 in the United States. Originally written and performed with three verses.
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Here's a quick, belated profile #pun tribute to the late, great #TerryHall...
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Best concert movie of all-time? Definitely right up there & the definitive document of 2-Tone & everything that was great about it, including the brilliantly sardonic Terry Hall
