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This punk work of art in vivid elaboration depicts in bright colors a metal monkey beating a drum with all its rage, vitality and vigor as if apparently trying to express what is inside him. The minds of punks are usually heated with warm blood running within their veins. The scene starts to fall apart amid band squabbles and music scene shifts, but a legacy has been built that stretches from generations of global ska-punk bands to the end of apartheid. Dammers: Everything was taking too long and costing too much. By the time we finally had a hit with Free Nelson Mandela, everyone had left the band. I was asked to organise a British branch of Artists Against Apartheid and the festival on Clapham Common drew a quarter of a million people. It was the proudest moment of my life. We performed the song at the Mandela concert at Wembley [1988]. By the second Wembley concert [1990], Mandela had been freed. Hopefully all the 2 Tone and anti-apartheid efforts made some sort of contribution, but there’s still so much to be done. The Beat including Everett Morton (left), Saxa (with fluffy toy) and Ranking Roger (wearing hat). Photograph: Fin Costello/Redferns

Evans: We’d driven around the country crammed in a van for two years before anyone had taken notice. Panter: That first 2 Tone tour was 40 people on one bus for 40 nights. It was like a school trip with no teachers. Costello: After one gig on the south coast we ended up on a beach with a bonfire and their fans, like a kinder version of Lord of the Flies. We recorded [the Specials] debut in a little place under a launderette. Cramped. Fetid. Ideal. There was just enough space outside the control room to jam the band and all their friends together with a beer and the lights off to do the crowd noise for Nite Klub. When Chrissie Hynde did the heavy breathing for Stupid Marriage the band were cheering like kids. We’d been at the vodka gimlets. We had to stop one session when Neville fired a blank round at me and the engineer – our ears were ringing all day. Suggs (singer, Madness): We were in Camden, getting into vintage things like Prince Buster. Ska had been out of fashion since the 60s. Then the Specials turned up at the Hope & Anchor wearing the same clothes as us. Neville was blowing holes in the ceiling with a starting pistol. Afterwards Jerry stayed on my mum’s sofa and said: “I want to start a record label, like Motown.” I said: “That’s optimistic considering you’ve just played to 35 people in a pub.” A few months later Jerry phoned and said: “I’ve done it!” Audiences are going nuts’ ... 2 Tone fans, at a gig at Friars, Aylesbury, in 1980. Photograph: Toni TyeDakar: I’d written The Boiler for the Bodysnatchers. A friend had been raped in different circumstances to the song, but the lyrics reflected her fear and terror. Some idiot on Capitol Radio played it at 9am on a Saturday. Complaints flooded in. It was taken out of shops but reached No 35. Jerry fiddled with The Boiler for a year, and he did the same thing with Ghost Town. It was more than perfectionism – I think it was performance anxiety. He was worried about failing, not being the best, but to his credit, he had much more of a sense of posterity than anyone else. One day Jerry came into the rehearsal room with a chorus, “Free Nelson Mandela …” I phoned Artists Against Apartheid to get information about Mandela and came up with: “Shoes too small to fit his feet, he pleaded the cause of the ANC.” This tattoo, perfectly suited for females, is an embodiment of the bold side of her character, which is fearless and undaunted alongside the soft and meek aspects (reflected by the rose on her hair and the tears from her eyes). This particular punk art is proof of the fact that the lamb and the tiger coexist in every woman, and when the circumstances demand, she awakes up the fierce tiger in her, ready to wreak vengeance on every wrong done to her. One among them is the idea of a punk tattoo, which originates from the 1970s and has been evolving since then. Punk trait tattoos are most prominently used to express a subculture’s symbols and signs. Dammers: I wanted 2 Tone to be semi-independent and launch other acts, so signing the label to Chrysalis let us do that. When the Selecter adopted ska rhythms and clothes I felt put out, but realised we could support each other.

Costello: The run of singles [as new incarnation Special AKA] leading up to the In The Studio album – War Crimes, The Boiler and Racist Friend – were extraordinary and uncompromising. Dammers: We would take our anti-racist message to kids who might be vulnerable to the NF. A lot of people over the years have told me that they might have become racists if it hadn’t been for 2 Tone. Rhoda Dakar with the Bodysnatchers on the second 2 Tone tour. Photograph: Virginia Turbett/Redferns Panter: When we played our last [2 Tone line-up] gig at the Carnival Against Racism in Leeds we were barely speaking. I think of Ghost Town as a triumph of will, that Jerry managed to get everyone in the same place to record it.

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This tattoo, though time-consuming, is perfectly suited for free-spirited males, and one can get this tattoo crafted on the arm, knee, or chest. This particular tattoo aptly conveys a sense of revenge burning within the mind of the individual. The tattoo depicts a lady carrying a pistol in her hand, apparently displaying her ferocious self. Green eyes are a sign of malice and jealousy. The caption on her attire says, “Let’s go,” suggesting a probable intention of gunning against some kind of injustice. Dammers: Neol Davies had a great disco dub instrumental, The Selecter. I said if he overdubbed a ska rhythm we could put it on the B-side of Gangsters, the first Specials single. Davies: Two thousand people plus, every night. Fire limits obviously being exceeded. Such a thrill. Tone: Lives & Legacies is at the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry, from 28 May to 12 September. The 40th anniversary half-speed master of Ghost Town is released on 4 June . The Madness docuseries Before We Was We is released on 1 May on AMC and BT TV. The Selecter’s 3CD Too Much Pressure box set is out now on Chrysalis. The current Specials and Selecter lineups tour this summer.

Neol Davies: Rough Trade pressed the single for us and we rubber stamped 5,000 copies in Jerry’s flat. After John Peel played it, Rough Trade couldn’t keep up with demand. Suggs: We realised it could be fun and serious. We all agreed we were anti-authoritarian, but we’d work the politics out afterwards. This is one of the best punk tattoos one could opt for if one has great enduring power and has really artistic and marvelous punk art ideas to adorn their body. The best spot to get this elaborate tattoo on is the thigh. Horace Panter (bass, the Specials): Our original drummer, Silverton [Hutchinson], left because he refused to play ska. He said: “That’s music my parents listen to.” When Brad [John Bradbury] replaced him, Jerry came along with Prince Buster’s Greatest Hits and told us all: “Listen to this.”The era of chart domination begins. The Specials, Madness and the Selecter appear on the same episode of Top of the Pops and a national tour is triumphant as two-tone mania sweeps the UK. Rhoda Dakar (singer, the Bodysnatchers, the Special AKA): Punk had opened the doors for all-girl bands like us. The energy levels on those tours was insane. The Specials would get the audience on stage. Venues just weren’t built for that many people jumping. At one gig on a pier I looked down and I could see the sea beneath the floor. Afterwards there’d be schoolgirl pranks like apple pie beds and water pistols. I was 20. Miranda [Joyce, saxophone] was 16.