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Wakeling then formed General Public with Ranking Roger in 1983, and they released their debut studio album All the Rage the next year. He also recorded two other studio albums with General Public, Hand to Mouth (1986) and Rub It Better (1995), shortly after which the band disbanded.
In the Studio is the third studio album by British ska revival band the Specials. It was released under the name the Special AKA in June 1984, their only album under that name. The album took over two years to produce before finally seeing release, by which time the original Specials had long since disbanded.
12 de jun. de 2012 · “We wanted to be The Monkees with politics, a subversive Monkees, paying tribute to the great pop songwriting of the 60s but addressing current issues,” says a cheerily ebullient Dave Wakeling, former lead vocalist and guitarist with The Beat.
This is the discography of British 2-tone/ska band the Beat (known as the English Beat in the US and Canada) and its subsequent incarnations as the Beat featuring Ranking Roger based in the UK, and the English Beat starring Dave Wakeling based in the US.
Dave Wakeling is still touring like a man 30 years his younger. He recently recorded a new studio album, Here We Go Love.
11 de feb. de 2024 · It’s one of the best-selling tracks in their arsenal that songwriter and frontman Dave Wakeling thinks might have been slyly half-inched by Pearl Jam and turned into Better Man, with Wakeling reckoning the Vitalogy track bears more than a passing resemblance to The Beat’s Save It For Later.
Over 40 years on and with a polished up film, Dance Craze, which documents some of the scene’s intoxicating live performances garnering rave reviews, the group return to the live circuit this summer landing at Rock City on June 23. LeftLion spoke to frontman Dave Wakeling down the line in California to get the lowdown….
