Biography
Jeremy David Hounsell Dammers (born 22 May 1955) is a British musician who was a founder, keyboard player and primary songwriter of the Coventry-based ska band the Specials (also known as the Special A.K.A.) and later the Spatial AKA Orchestra. Through his foundation of the record label Two Tone, his work blending political lyrics and punk with Jamaican music, and his incorporation of 1960s retro clothing, Dammers is a pivotal figure of the ska revival. He has also been acknowledged in his work for racial unity.
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Specials
1979
More Specials
1980
Ghost Town / Why? / Friday Night, Saturday Morning
1981
Dance Craze
1981
Encore
2019
Now That's What I Call Halloween
2015
The Best Of The Specials
2008
Goodbye Cruel World
1984
This Are Two Tone
1983
Singles
1991
In The Studio
1984
Darrin's Coconut Ass (Live From Omaha)
1999
Wild Child
1985
The Best Of 2Tone
2014
More... Or Less. The Specials Live
2012
Absolute Beginners - The Musical (Songs From The Original Motion Picture)
1986
Nelson Mandela c/w Break Down The Door!
1984
Life In The European Theatre
1981
Do Nothing
1980
5 Years Of Hyperdub
2009
Ghost Town
2008
Noise
2004
Over The Counter Culture
2004
How It Goes
2004
Credited work
1,526 releases · 258 albums · active 1979–2026
- Performance · 4,833
- Production · 1,098
- Other credits · 317
- Engineering · 28
- Mastering · 7
Studios: T.W. Studios · Woodbine Studios · Wessex Sound Studios · Horizon Studios, Coventry
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- The Specials
- Stiff Little Fingers
- The Special AKA
- Amazulu
- The Untouchables (7)
- Kortatu
- Rico