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After several people close to me died I became obsessed with fitness and gripped by panic attacks. But then a ska cover taught me life doesn’t have to be serious all the time

‘Terry Hall was writing about nuclear war and Ronald Reagan, then the US president, the idea being that the world was being run by lunatics’

Debbie Harry, Alison Goldfrapp, Candi Staton, Billy Bragg and others look back at festival experiences they’ll never forget – including getting stuck in the mud and yearning to take off their clothes

The singer showed me that burning bridges can be extraordinarily beautiful, from any vantage point – which is a good note on which to end my Name and Shame series

Joe Massot’s vivid 1981 film about the British ska scene brims with life, sweat and the faces of ecstatic fans

The Gorillaz frontman recalled seeing the late singer perform for the first time when he was 14

The Specials frontman Terry Hall's funeral took place on Tuesday with some huge stars in attendance, after the music world was left devastated over the legendary singer's death at the age of 63 last month

Singer and guitarist Robin Campbell has hit out at the Conservative Government, claiming the country is in the same bad state it was when the band formed decades ago