"Released at a time when 2 Tone could do no wrong, this 5 track EP became the labels first UK Number 1 single. Recorded at The Lyceum in London and Tiffanys in Coventry, it was also issued as the labels first picture sleeve and for some strange reason saw the band revert to their previous name of The Special A.K.A.. Why they reverted back to this title remains a mystery and the plot is only further complicated by the listing of the band as The Specials on the records labels. The sleeve has a photograph of an audience on the front and a favourable report from the Coventry Evening Telegraph on the band as its rear. . It was also the first 2 Tone release to fall foul of the censors. The final line of Too Much Too Young , 'Try wearing a cap', proved too much for the nations moral guardians and the song was deliberately cut short before the offending word 'cap' was broadcast."
2 Tone
YouTube: Too Much Too Young (Old Grey Whistle Test 1979), Guns of Navarone, Long Shot Kick De Bucket, Liquidator, Skinhead Moonstomp
2009 October: The Specials, 2912 September: Ghost Town.
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