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When guitarist Roddy Byers started kicking a hole in the studio wall, the engineer threatened to throw them out. Dammers panicked, crying: "No! This is the greatest record that's ever been made in the history of anything! You can't stop now! The song Dammers had written encapsulated the despair within the band and within Britain.

The "ghost town" of the title could have been anywhere in the country as unemployment rose to over 2 million and industry collapsed. After a disastrous show in Cambridge that saw singers Terry Hall and Neville Staple arrested for "inciting a riot" - they were actually trying to stop one - The Specials decided to quit touring.

As ground on, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's new "stop and search" policy meant police were targeting black youths more than ever. In April, disturbances began in Brixton over the police's heavy-handed tactics - but that was only the beginning.

Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Sheffield, Nottingham, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Hull were all among the towns that experienced disturbances. As Ghost Town climbed the charts, the protests increased. The Specials had summed up the angry mood of the nation. Jerry Dammers felt vindicated: "It's hard to explain how powerful it sounded.

We had almost been written off and then Ghost Town'came out of the blue. However, his triumph was to be short-lived. The trio went on to have pop success in the early s as Fun Boy Three. This 40th Anniversary Edition has been mastered and cut at half-speed by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios using the original production tapes for optimum audio quality.

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