“The world has lost a unique voice” TERRY HALL | 1959–2022
“I ALMOST started writing my memoirs a few years ago,” Terry Hall told Uncut in 2019. “The working title was ‘I’ve Worked With Some Right Cunts’, which didn’t go down very well. But I’ll wait until I’m 70 until I write that.” Sadly, Hall never got to that stage, but it would have been a gripping read – and one made up of fascinating contradictions. As the focal point of one of the most thrilling bands ever to emerge from the UK, he was the softly spoken, mild-mannered guy who looked like a football hooligan, the depressive comedian, the suedehead who loved easy listening. But whether quelling riots on stage with The Specials or crooning ballads later in his career, central to everything was that extraordinarily ordinary voice. While his post-punk…