Neville Staples, one of the most famous godfathers of ska music, will be at the Hell Dorado concert venue with his new group Neville Staples aka The Specials. This irrepressible star of ska music, best known as the front man of the British group The Specials, will be playing tracks from his latest album, The Rude Boy Returns, from 10:00 p.m. onwards.
Staples was the front man and founder of The Specials in 1977 with Jerry Dammers and Lynval Holding, a group with a pop attitude and Caribbean sounds. Together with other groups they were the leading exponents of the ska movement. They also set up their own record label, Two Tone Records.
Elvis Costelo produced their first record, The Specials, which contains some of their biggest hit records with tracks such as A Message to you Rudy, chosen by FIAT for one of its adverts. Hit after hit ensued until they finally exhausted the formula in 1981, when the band broke up and split into two. Neville Staple, Lynval Golding and Terry Hall formed a new group, Fun Boy Three, and Horace Panter and Jerry Dammers reformed the old group, continuing with its early sounds under the new name of Special A. K. A. Both groups disappeared in 1983 and then reappeared in 1985 as one band to release two records, Too Much young and Ghost Town. They split up again in 1998.
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