Almost 27 years ago, the English Beat took to the stage for the first time at a little club in Birmingham, England. Since then, lead singer and guitarist Dave Wakeling has been playing with various ...

Dave Wakeling says ska music is more than just a genre. Wakeling, front man for The Beat (known in the U.S. as The English Beat), says it is a way to address pertinent social issues while still having ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Roger Charlery, the English singer-songwriter behind the seminal two-tone band The Beat (known in the U.S. as the English Beat) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ranking Roger with the English Beat in 1980. (Photo: Gie Knaeps/Getty Images) Ranking Roger, the British new wave/ska/reggae ...

NEW HAVEN -- The English Beat, leaders along with The Specials of the 2-Tone ska revival movement of the late 1970s and 1980s -- and an inspiration to all the ska revival waves that have followed that ...

When original frontman Dave Wakeling brought the group that’s called The English Beat these days to Summerfest, it was a walk down memory lane for the large crowd at the Generac stage. However, it was ...

When the British ska movement launched in the late ‘70s, great ska/rocksteady acts such as the Skatalites, Prince Buster and Desmond Dekker were founding influences. Inspired by the rebellious nature ...

When the English Beat emerged in the late ’70s, the UK group fused punk rock brashness with old-school Jamaican ska beats. The results were striking and the band delivered hits “Mirror in the Bathroom ...

Sometime around 1978, revelation struck in Birmingham. During that period, Dave Wakeling, Andy Cox and David Steele had a nascent, nameless band in their U.K. hometown. As active participants in their ...

Soul Salvation: A Gen X Love Letter to the English Beat Marc Wasserman 284 Pages ISBN: # 979-8990026421 DiWulf Publishing2024 Fans of the English Beat, devoted or casual, may be somewhat disappointed ...

The English Beat, who we caught last year with Squeeze at Capitol Theater (photos in the gallery above), are staying really busy for the rest of 2017 with shows all over the United States from now ...