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Simple Minds’ frontmen Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill have revealed why it’s taken them so long to explore their incredible career on film. 

The Redskins look back on a time when first appearances meant nothing.

Through a remarkable range of voices, anecdotes and diary entries, Daniel Rachel has captured the melody of 2 Tone and painted an exceptional portrait of the UK at a crucial time

Specials bassist and close friend Horace Panter says he matured during his time in the Coventry band.

‘Terry Hall was writing about nuclear war and Ronald Reagan, then the US president, the idea being that the world was being run by lunatics’

Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today we revisit the debut album from a trio that split from the Specials to forge a mischievous and mysterious electro-pop sound haunted by the racist violence entrenched in British history.

Against a backdrop of division and despair, disaffected youth united through The Specials and 2 Tone to challenge the Thatcherite status quo.

Duran Duran are back with a Halloween-themed album featuring unexpected cover versions, the latest in a career full of vivid pop escapism.

Want some spine-tinglingly groovy tunes for you and your ghoul-friends? We’ve conjured up the perfect Spotify playlist below!

Drummer and bandleader who broke apartheid laws and promoted African music nights at the 100 Club in London