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The Specials: More Specials (Chrysalis/2-Tone)

Richard Riegel, Creem, March 1981

SO HOW would you like to be sitting on top of the Specials' 2-Tone global music empire right about now? You can bet it's a real sword-of-Damocles proposition, the kind I'm sure Marley or some other reggae guy was singing about, before most of the Specials were born.

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