LETTER FROM BRITAIN
"Enjoy yourself" the Specials sing, part ironic, part mourning on their second album of 1980. It's later than you think”... The year came to an end with the music of the white boys showing strange signs of lyrical impotence. 1980 in British music was the year of tribes and tendencies.
LETTER FROM BRITAIN
1980 FLASHBACK!
by
Penny Valentine
"Enjoy yourself" the Specials sing, part ironic, part mourning on their second album of 1980.
It's later than you think”...
The year came to an end with the music of the white boys showing strange signs of lyrical impotence. 1980 in British music was the year of tribes and tendencies. Over there the mods, next to them the skins, the ska revival and the soul boys, the electronic experimentalists...The mainstream jolted on, disjointed by a record company slump. Down at the Bandwagon my friend Gerry said the first visible signs of true rock ’n’ roll impotence was to watch the HM freaks miming every thrust and lick of their musical heroes on cut out guitars.