Episode 364: Episode 364: The English Beat’s “Special Beat Service” with Marc Wasserman

from Records Revisited · host Ben Montgomery

The guys are joined by Marc Wasserman who wrote the book “Soul Salvation: A Gen X Love Letter to The English Beat” to discuss (of course) “Special Beat Service” from The English Beat. Plenty of other discussion including Two Tone, FYC and General Public, John Hughes, American TV’s influence for one song, accordion, and what in the world is “Ackee 1 2 3?”Check out Marc at: https://www.instagram.com/soul_salvation_book/ & https://www.diwulf.com/pages/marc-wassermanCheck Dave Wakeling & The English Beat at: http://englishbeat.net/Check out other episodes at RecordsRevisitedPodcast.com, Apple Podcasts, Castbox, iHeartMedia, Google Podcasts and Spotify. Additional content is found at: Facebook.com/recordsrevisitedpodcast or twitter @podcastrecords or IG at instagram.com/recordsrevisitedpodcast/ or join our Patreon at patreon.com/RecordsRevisitedPodcast

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