The Beat (known in the US as The English Beat) were an essential two-tone/ska revival and pop music group who formed in the Birmingham, UK in 1978 and disbanded in 1983.
One of the more popular and enduring groups of a short-lived trend, The Beat released three albums - I Just Can't Stop It (1980) (often regarded as an important early 1980s album), Wha'ppen (1981) and Special Beat Service (1982).
After the break-up of The Beat, Dave Wakeling (guitar, vocals) and Ranking Roger (vocals) went on to form General Public, while Andy Cox (guitar) and David Steele (bass) formed Fine Young Cannibals with vocalist Roland Gift.
Members of the band often collaborated on stage with The Specials and performed on tracks such as Free Nelson Mandela, an amalgam of The Specials and The Beat later formed in the early 90's to be renamed 'the special beat'
The Beat, known in the United States as The EnglishBeat in order to avoid confusion with Paul Collins' band of the same name, was a popular Two Tone ska and pop music group.
The band was formed in the English city of Birmingham in 1978, which was a period of high unemployment and social-political upheaval in the UK.
The Beat were part of the revival of 1950s and 1960s Jamaican ska rhythms and melodies in the UK.
The story of Englishbeat poetry begins in a man's attempt to assert the nobility of his soul in the face of alienation from his environ, an irrelevant suburban "village" (sic), and that oldest of phenomena: being jilted, dumped, by a girlfriend, while "down".
Englishbeat poetry was also born out of a more distant personal history: that of associating with the homeless and feeling, psychologically at least, homeless myself.
Englishbeat poetry is an attempt to formulate a rush of rhyme in prose-style that drums on the stairwell of modern culture, like the rain of Rainbowed Passions.
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