2 Tone (or Two Tone) is a music genre created in England in the late 1970s by fusing elements of ska, punk rock, rocksteady, reggae and New Wave. Within the history of ska, 2 Tone is classified as its second wave, and is the precursor of the third wave ska scene of the 1980s and 1990s.
The 2 Tone sound was developed by young musicians in Coventry, West Midlands, England who grew up hearing 1960s Jamaican music. They combined influences from ska, ...
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Albums:
- Get Happy!! ,
- Specials ,
- Special Beat Service ,
- I Just Can't Stop It ,
- Too Much Too Young: The Gold Collection ,
- The Singles Collection ,
- The Very Best of the Specials and Fun Boy Three ,
- Coventry Automatics Aka the Specials: Dawning of a New Era ,
- BBC Sessions ,
- One Step Beyond...