UNIVERSAL MUSIC CATALOGUE
It’s four decades since The Specials’ definitive, eponymous debut, yet here they are, railing against many of the same issues – corruption, poverty, racism, sexism, violence, you name it – that first provoked them back in Coventry all those years ago. “The people”, they pointed out on 1981’s Ghost Town, “getting angry”, but the people have no less reason now. This comeback, therefore, could hardly be timelier. In fact, one might argue, it’s tragically overdue.