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Roger Charlery (22 February 1963 – 26 March 2019), known professionally as Ranking Roger, was an English musician. He was a vocalist in the 1980s ska band the Beat (known in North America as the English Beat) and later new wave band General Public .
La amistad de Ranking Roger con miembros de The Clash lo llevó a grabar algunas rarezas nunca editadas (como versiones alternativas de los temas “Rock The Casbah” y “Red Angel Dragnet”, del disco Combat Rock) y a integrarse a Big Audio Dynamite, la banda de Mick Jones, en el ´97.
27 de mar. de 2019 · “The beat goes on,” say countless headlines heralding the arrival of General Public, the new band led by former Beat frontman Dave Wakeling and Ranking Roger.
Ranking Roger (nacido como Roger Charlery, Birmingham, West Midlands, 21 de febrero de 1963-26 de marzo de 2019) [1] [2] [3] [4] fue un músico británico, vocalista en la banda de ska The Beat (conocida en Norteamérica como The English Beat) en la década de 1980.
27 de mar. de 2019 · Roger Charlery, the vocalist of the Beat and General Public better known as Ranking Roger, has died aged 56. Charlery founded the Beat in Birmingham in 1978. The band fused traditional ska...
27 de mar. de 2019 · 2-Tone pioneer Ranking Roger, who sang with successful Birmingham ska bands The Beat and General Public, has died aged 56. A statement by The Beat reported the artist, real name Roger Charlery, passed away ‘peacefully at home…surrounded by family’ on Tuesday 26 March.
12 de jun. de 2012 · Wakeling and Ranking Roger went on to form the briefly successful General Public; Wakeling himself never left America, and has been living in California for 26 years. “I think of myself as more of a Californian than an American.”
