{"id":2658,"date":"2021-08-17T14:30:39","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T13:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/?p=2658"},"modified":"2021-08-17T16:16:28","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T15:16:28","slug":"the-specials-protest-songs-1924-2012-24sep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/the-specials-protest-songs-1924-2012-24sep\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-sale of the week: The Specials \u2013 <em>Protest Songs 1924\u20132012<\/em>, out 24 September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"The Specials - \" href=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.co.uk\/products\/specials-the-protest-songs-1924-2012\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centre aligncenter\" title=\"The Specials - Protest Songs 1924\u20132012\" src=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/img\/rls\/offer\/2109\/Specials.jpg\" alt=\"The Specials - Protest Songs 1924\u20132012\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What makes a protest song? <strong>The Specials<\/strong> should know. First time around, back when the 70s were lurching into the 80s, they sang of racism, war, unemployment and the rough edges of urban life, and never in the same way twice. As the multiracial flagship of the 2 Tone movement, they made a political statement every time they stepped on stage. June 2021 saw the 40th anniversary of their last and greatest protest song, \u2018Ghost Town\u2019, a record that will retain its eerie power as long as there are concrete jungles, empty dancehalls and desperate spasms of violence. independent shops exclusive limited-edition <strong>transparent yellow vinyl<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re offering <a title=\"The Specials - \" href=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.co.uk\/products\/specials-the-protest-songs-1924-2012\"><em>Protest Songs 1924\u20132012<\/em><\/a> at <strong class=\"darkred\">special pre-sale prices<\/strong>, which won\u2019t be available after release. <a title=\"The Specials - \" href=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.co.uk\/products\/specials-the-protest-songs-1924-2012\">Click here<\/a> for more details and to order your copy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What makes a protest song? The Specials should know. First time around, back when the 70s were lurching into the 80s, they sang of racism, war, unemployment and the rough edges of urban life, and never in the same way twice. As the multiracial flagship of the 2 Tone movement, they made a political statement&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,159],"tags":[36,829,830,194,1264],"class_list":["post-2658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-new-releases","category-promotions","tag-new-release","tag-pre-sale-of-the-week","tag-pre-sale-offers","tag-special-offer","tag-the-specials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2659,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658\/revisions\/2659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}