Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ranking Roger with the English Beat in 1980. (Photo: Gie Knaeps/Getty Images) Ranking Roger, the British new wave/ska/reggae ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Roger Charlery, the English singer-songwriter behind the seminal two-tone band The Beat (known in the U.S. as the English Beat) ...

Soul Salvation: A Gen X Love Letter to the English Beat Marc Wasserman 284 Pages ISBN: # 979-8990026421 DiWulf Publishing2024 Fans of the English Beat, devoted or casual, may be somewhat disappointed ...

When the British ska movement launched in the late ‘70s, great ska/rocksteady acts such as the Skatalites, Prince Buster and Desmond Dekker were founding influences. Inspired by the rebellious nature ...

Marc Wasserman is following his 2021 book Ska Boom! An American Ska & Reggae Oral History with a new book about/inspired by 2 Tone legends The English Beat, Soul Salvation: A Gen X Love Letter To The ...

Ranking Roger, one half of the vocalist pair who fronted the 1980s New Wave band, The Beat, died on Tuesday in England at the age of 56. The band was known in the United States as The English Beat and ...

Fans of the The English Beat, devoted or casual, may be somewhat disappointed Soul Salvation is not the thorough history the ska-pop band deserves. But as the subtitle states, A Gen X Love Letter is ...

The King of Ska, Dave Wakeling, was a founding member of pioneering 2-tone band the English Beat. Formed in Birmingham, England in 1978 as a response to the height of UK economic melt-down of the time ...