Original Rude Boy: From Borstal to the Specials: A Life of Crime and Music by Pete Waterman, Neville Staple, Neville Staple, Tony McMahon

Original Rude Boy: From Borstal to the Specials: A Life of Crime and Music

Pete Waterman, Neville Staple, Neville Staple, Tony McMahon

350 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

challenging funny reflective medium-paced

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1979. The dawn of Thatcher's Britain. It's a country crippled by strikes, joblessness and economic gloom, divided by race and class - and skanking to a new beat: 2-Tone. The unruly offspring of white boy punk and rude boy ska, the new music's unde...

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