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Jeremy David Hounsell Dammers [1] GCOT (born 22 May 1955) is a British musician who was a founder, keyboard player and primary songwriter of the Coventry-based ska band the Specials (also known as the Special A.K.A.) and later the Spatial AKA Orchestra.
Dec 20, 2022 · Read the full interview with Dammers – in which talks about his early musical influences, The Specials, his work with the Anti-Apartheid movement and the group reuniting without him – in the May 2015 issue of MOJO (#258).
Mar 20, 2020 · Jerry Dammers was the creative genius behind The Specials, the man who gave them their political edge, who gave them their idiosyncratic musical tropes and who set them apart from the...
We chat to The Specials' founder and chief songwriter Jerry Dammers about the past, present and future of protest music, the drive behind his band and the face of British politics today. This...
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After this, founder Jerry Dammers dissolved the band and pursued political activism. The group re-formed in 1993, and continued to perform and record with varying line-ups – none of them involving Dammers – until the death of Terry Hall in December 2022.
Learn about the 18-piece orchestra led by the founder of The Specials and 2 Tone, Jerry Dammers. Explore their repertoire of space sounds, funk jazz, cosmic blues, reggae, ska and more.
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Jan 15, 2021 · They were greeted with open arms by the critics and public alike, only they weren’t really The Specials at all, because the most important member, Jerry Dammers, the man who invented them, who...
