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Jeremy David Hounsell Dammers GCOT (born 22 May 1955) is a British musician who was a founder, keyboard player and primary songwriter of the Coventry-based ska band the Specials (also known as the Special A.K.A.) and later the Spatial AKA Orchestra.
The Specials' founder and keyboardist reveals the story behind their final song and their acrimonious breakup in 1981. He talks about the "devil's chord", Roddy Byers' tantrums, and the band's legacy in the latest issue of MOJO.
We chat to The Specials' founder and chief songwriter Jerry Dammers about the past, present and future of protest music, the drive behind his band and the face of British politics today. This...
9 de dic. de 2013 · Jerry Dammers on how a kid from Coventry who had never heard of Nelson Mandela ended up writing a global hit that became the anti-apartheid anthem. How protest songs came into their own with...
20 de mar. de 2020 · Jerry Dammers was the creative genius behind The Specials, the man who gave them their political edge, who gave them their idiosyncratic musical tropes and who set them apart from the...
26 de mar. de 2010 · The extravagantly furtive cultural conceptualist Jerry Dammers has created a fantastic work of art by forming what is essentially a grandiose tribute act, a serio-absurd personal impression of...
Jerry Dammers formed the Specials in Coventry in 1977. He was an anti-apartheid activist from his school days, and in 1986 founded Artists Against Apartheid to involve musicians in anti-apartheid campaigns and promote the cultural boycott of South Africa.
