Terry Hall Said This Before He Died | Warning Signs Were There😭

Terry Hall lead singer of the Specials Said This Before He Died | Warning Signs Were There

Very devastating news after the death of a reknown artist Terry Hall who was known for his dour image and sharp wit.

The singer found fame in the 1970s and 80s with hits like Ghost Town, Gangsters and Too Much Too Young.

He left The Specials in 1981 to form Fun Boy Three with fellow-bandmates Neville Staple and Lynval Golding, scoring another run of hits.

He was really talented and a top class man

The singer died after a brief illness, The Specials said in a statement.

A heart felt statement read

Terry was a wonderful husband and father and one of the kindest, funniest, and most genuine of souls," they wrote.

"His music and his performances encapsulated the very essence of life… the joy, the pain, the humour, the fight for justice, but mostly the love.

"He will be deeply missed by all who knew and loved him and leaves behind the gift of his remarkable music and profound humanity."

In a separate message, Staple told the BBC he had learned of his friend's passing as he landed in Egypt for a holiday with his wife.

A long time friend further said

"It's really hit me hard," he said. "We fronted The Specials and Fun Boy Three together, making history.
"Terry, he surely will be missed."
The band asked for respect for Hall's family's privacy. No cause of death was shared.


The musician was born in 1959 and raised in Coventry, where most of his family worked in the city's then-booming car industry.

But his life took a dark turn when, at the age of 12, he was kidnapped by a teacher.

In one of the interviews he said

"I was abducted, taken to France and sexually abused for four days," he told The Spectator in 2019. "And then punched in the face and left on the roadside."

Hall said the incident left him with life-long depression and caused him to drop out of education at the age of 14, after becoming addicted to the Valium he had been prescribed.

"I didn't go to school, I didn't do anything. I just sat on my bed rocking for eight months."
Music was some form of solace; and Hall joined a local punk band called Squad, receiving his first writing credit on their single Red Alert.

He was spotted by The Specials' Jerry Dammers, who recruited him as a frontman by deploying a terrible pun.

"He worked in a stamp shop" the musician told Mojo magazine. "I told him, Philately will get you nowhere'".

After gaining a fearsome live reputation at home, the band rose to national prominence after Radio 1's John Peel played their debut single, Gangsters, on his show.

The song - a tribute to Prince Buster's ska classic Al Capone - established the band and their record label 2-Tone as a major force in British music.

They were a multi-racial group, documenting the turbulent Thatcher years by playing songs directly indebted to Jamaican ska - a pre-reggae style that remained popular in Britain's West Indian communities.

But Hall, never one for hyperbole, said the band's success was almost an accidental by-product of the punk movement.

We send our condolences to Hall’s family friends and fans

Rest in power king