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Fun Boy Three

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Fun Boy Three: Why?

Report by Fred Dellar, Andrew Tyler, New Musical Express, 16 January 1982

FRED DELLAR and ANDREW TYLER report on the vicious race attack that put Lynval Golding in hospital ...

Fun Boy Three & Bananarama

Interview by Ian Birch, Smash Hits, 21 January 1982

CAST YOUR eyes to the right. You know the gents. That's a walkover. It's the Fun Boy Three. ...

Rico Rodriguez: Rastaman

Profile and Interview by Deanne Pearson, The Face, February 1982

From the Wareika Hills to Top of the Pops. A profile of Rico, the Specials trombone ace, with a side order of oaths for the ...

Fun Boy Three: Fun Boy Three

Review by Gavin Martin, New Musical Express, 13 March 1982

THERE NEEDS to be good reason for breaking up an outfit like The Specials, their heyday happened so fast, ended so soon and was tied ...

Fun Boy Three: Beyond The Specials

Interview by Toby Goldstein, Musician, May 1982

Amidst English fear and loathing, three Special survivors sing of hope, racial understanding and an end to the lunacy. ...

Fun Boy Three

Profile and Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, June 1982

"EQUALITY AND democracy were what we preached. That's how it was when we started, but it didn't last. When we started making $2,000 a night ...

Letter From Britain: Jammed Up, Jelly Tight

Comment by Penny Valentine, Creem, June 1982

Struggle after struggleYear after yearThe atmosphere's a fine blend of ice.I'm almost stone cold deadIn a town called malice.— 'Town Called Malice', the Jam. ...

Fun Boy Three: Inside The Asylum

Interview by Richard Grabel, Creem, September 1982

NEW YORK — When the Specials broke up, the group split into two camps. Jerry Dammers, the gap-toothed keyboardist who was usually considered the mastermind ...

Fun Boy Three: The Message

Interview by Mark Cooper, Record Mirror, 8 January 1983

TERRY HALL reckons the Funboy Three have grown up into a real group. The proof is threefold. First, the release of one of this year's ...

Fun Boy Three: Funboy Fundamentals

Interview by Paolo Hewitt, New Musical Express, 5 March 1983

PAOLO HEWITT GETS DOWN TO SOME SERIOUS REASONING WITH THE FUN BOY THREE AND CONCLUDES THE FUN'S NO FAKE AND THE CONCERN'S NO CON. ...

Fun Boy Three: Leeds University, Leeds

Live Review by Mark Cooper, Record Mirror, 12 March 1983

Ain't what you do... ...

Fun Boy Three: Waiting (Chrysalis); Bananarama: Deep Sea Skiving (London)

Review by J.D. Considine, Musician, June 1983

ON THE surface, these two records seem to have a lot in common. Aside from the fact that the Funboys helped to get Bananarama together ...

Terry Hall: The Face Interview

Interview by Fiona Russell Powell, The Face, July 1983

This interview with Terry Hall is the result of two rather brief meetings with the Fun Boy, although I'm tempted to suggest that Glum Boy ...

see also Bananarama

see also Terry Hall

see also Specials, The

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