Specials [Special Edition]

This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.The Specials: Terry Hall, Neville Staples (vocals); Lynval Golding, Roddy Radiation (guitar); Jerry Dammers (organ); Horace Gentleman (bass); John "Brad" Bradbury (drums).Additional personnel: Rico Rodriguez, Dick Cuthell (horns).Producers: Elvis Costello, The Specials.Reissue producers: Nigel Reeve, Rob Owen.Includes liner notes by Adrian Thrill.All tracks have been digitally remastered.Liner Note Author: Lois Wilson.Recording information: Paris Theatre, London (12/15/1979); TW Studios (12/15/1979).Photographers: Chalkie Davies; Carol Starr.Produced by Elvis Costello, this self-titled 1979 debut quickly became gospel to the wave of ska then sweeping England. Infusing the catchy, jumpy music developed by artists like the Skatalites and Prince Buster a generation before them with punk's youthful disenfranchisement, bands like the Specials, the Selecter and Madness gave birth to a movement, one