{"id":673148,"date":"2026-07-04T08:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T08:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/673148\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T08:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T08:59:09","slug":"the-specials-last-ever-album-a-fitting-tribute-to-terry-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/673148\/","title":{"rendered":"The Specials&#8217; last ever album &#8216;a fitting tribute to Terry Hall&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Specials Live from the Cathedral spans 24 songs and, according to Golding, includes &#8220;all the hits you know and love, but also a fair smattering from the Encore album as well&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 2019 gigs were &#8220;history in the making,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Encore album, their first new material in 37 years, gave the band its first number one album in 2019. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think it was our best album,&#8221; explained Golding, &#8220;you listen to the songs and Terry&#8217;s writing, that guy should have been voted the best songwriter in England from years ago.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The new live album &#8220;to me is the most important record coming out this year,&#8221; he explained. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The themes were as important today as 40 years ago, such as weapons of mass destruction, nuclear war, gun violence and disaffected youths, he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;How many songs are there about teenage pregnancy now, &#8221; Golding added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We talked about it yesterday and we&#8217;re here with it today, and I think hasn&#8217;t anybody learned anything from what we said?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Specials Live from the Cathedral spans 24 songs and, according to Golding, includes &#8220;all the hits you&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-673148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}