Musician Terry Hall of The Specials performs on the Main Stage, on the Isle of Wight Festival in Seaclose Park, Newport, Isle of Wight, England, on June 14, 2014.

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Musician Terry Hall of The Specials performs on the Main Stage, on the Isle of Wight Festival in Seaclose Park, Newport, Isle of Wight, England, on June 14, 2014.

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LONDON — Musician Terry Hall, who helped create one of many defining sounds of post-punk Britain as lead singer of The Specials, has died. He was 63.

The band introduced late Monday that Hall had died after a short sickness. It referred to as him “our beautiful friend, brother and one of the most brilliant singers, songwriters and lyricists this country has ever produced.”

Hall joined the band that may turn out to be The Specials within the English Midlands metropolis of Coventry within the late Seventies, a time of racial pressure, financial gloom and concrete unrest. With its mixture of Black and white members and Jamaica-influenced fashion of sharp fits and porkpie hats, the band turned leaders of the anti-racist 2 Tone ska revival motion.

With Hall’s deadpan vocals setting the tone, The Specials captured the uneasy temper of the occasions in songs together with “A Message to You, Rudy,” “Rat Race” and “Too Much Too Young.”

The band’s most iconic music is the melancholy, menacing “Ghost Town,” which topped the U.Okay. music charts in the summertime of 1981 as Britain’s cities have been erupting in riots.

The Specials had seven U.Okay. Top 10 hits earlier than Hall and fellow band members Neville Staple and Lynval Golding left in 1981 to kind Fun Boy Three. It scored hits together with “It Ain’t What You Do (It’s The Way That You Do It”) and “The Tunnel of Love.”

Hall later fashioned The Colourfield and collaborated with artists together with The Go-Go’s – co-writing the group’s 1981 debut single, “Our Lips Are Sealed.”

Go-Go’s guitarist Jane Wiedlin remembered Hall as “a lovely, sensitive, talented and unique person.”

“Our extremely brief romance resulted in the song Our Lips Are Sealed, which will forever tie us together in music history. Terrible news to hear this,” she wrote on Twitter.

Singer-songwriter Elvis Costello additionally provided condolences, saying “Terry’s voice was the perfect instrument for the true and necessary songs on ‘The Specials.’ That honesty is heard in so many of his songs in joy and sorrow.”

Most of the unique Specials reunited in 2008, staged a Thirtieth-anniversary tour in 2009 and in 2019 launched an album of recent materials, “Encore,” which turned the band’s first U.Okay. No. 1 album. A follow-up, “Protest Songs 1924-2012,” was launched in 2021.

Hall’s bandmates stated he was “a wonderful husband and father and one of the kindest, funniest, and most genuine of souls. His music and his performances encapsulated the very essence of life… the joy, the pain, the humour, the fight for justice, but mostly the love.

“He might be deeply missed by all who knew and cherished him and leaves behind the present of his outstanding music and profound humanity. Terry typically left the stage on the finish of The Specials’ life-affirming reveals with three phrases… ‘Love Love Love.'”