The documentary tells the story of 2 Tone, the musical phenomenon that exploded out of Coventry in 1979 and went on to storm the charts around the world. I am a huge fan of 2 Tone and I grew up ...

The BBC is telling the remarkable story of how a global music sensation was born in Coventry. I grew up listening to The Specials and am a big fan of the vibrant music popularly known as 2 Tone. So ...

A 'definitive' guide to the legendary 2 Tone Records, the label behind releases by Coventry's own The Specials, is being published next month. Written by Daniel Rachel, Too Much Too Young The 2 Tone ...

Major exhibition charts rise of record label that spawned musical and cultural movement in late 1970s Scrawled on the back of an Embassy cigarette packet are Jerry Dammers’ first attempts to define ...

There’s a scene in Alex Cox’s 1986 film Sid & Nancy that foreshadows the end for the star-crossed punk lovers: One of their cohorts shows up in a trilby hat, shiny tonic suit, and skinny tie, having ...

The remarkable story of the rise and rise of 2-Tone music right here in Coventry is being told in a new BBC documentary. 2-Tone: The Sound of Coventry tells how the genre and movement exploded out of ...

Within a year of the Conservatives’ election victory in May 1979, unemployment had doubled, reaching two million for the first time in 40 years. As Britain braced itself against the first effects of ...

White Rabbit has acquired the story of 2 Tone Records by Daniel Rachel, a former musician and award-winning author of books such as Isle of Noises: Conversations with Great British Songwriters ...

This Town, Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight’s latest drama for the BBC, brings to life a defining – if short-lived – era in the history of British youth culture and popular music. Set in the West ...

I grew up listening to The Specials and am a big fan of the vibrant music popularly known as 2 Tone. So I’m incredibly excited BBC England is part of telling this story. 2 Tone brought together black ...

I am a huge fan of 2 Tone and I grew up listening to The Specials. So I’m incredibly excited BBC England is part of telling this story. 2 Tone brought together black and white musicians and fans in a ...