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‘Ghost Town’, ‘At The Club’ & Britain’s Summer of Discontent

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A disintegrating Specials were part of the sound of July 1981 as unrest flared up in Handsworth, Toxteth, Southall, Moss Side, Hyson Green & Brixton, as Ghost Town hit #1 45 years ago today, writes Wrongtom
Brixton 1981 by Kim Aldis
On 10 July 1981 the producer Lloyd Coxsone was minding his own business on Atlantic Road in the heart of Brixton when he spotted a young Rasta called Maliki being hassled by the police, and attempted to intervene. The legendary sound system operator was cuffed and bu

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