One of the most important ska bands of all time, The English Beat helped revive the genre in the early '80s. Influenced by pop, punk and reggae, the group tackled political themes such as poverty and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Roger Charlery, the English singer-songwriter behind the seminal two-tone band The Beat (known in the U.S. as the English Beat) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ranking Roger with the English Beat in 1980. (Photo: Gie Knaeps/Getty Images) Ranking Roger, the British new wave/ska/reggae ...

When the British ska movement launched in the late ‘70s, great ska/rocksteady acts such as the Skatalites, Prince Buster and Desmond Dekker were founding influences. Inspired by the rebellious nature ...

The English Beat, who we caught last year with Squeeze at Capitol Theater (photos in the gallery above), are staying really busy for the rest of 2017 with shows all over the United States from now ...

Almost 27 years ago, the English Beat took to the stage for the first time at a little club in Birmingham, England. Since then, lead singer and guitarist Dave Wakeling has been playing with various ...

Saxa, the Jamaican saxophonist for the English Beat, died May 3. He was 87. On May 3, Ranking Roger, the band's vocalist and toaster, took to Facebook to announce Saxa's passing. “I am so very sad and ...

Ska and two-tone music is known for its bounce. And that’s exactly what the floor was doing less than one song into the English Beat show at White Eagle Hall in Jersey City Tuesday. Those songs, all ...

Dave Wakeling is still riding the new wave that propelled his ska band The English Beat to success in the early 1980s. Songs like Save it for Later, Mirror in the Bathroom and a killer cover of Tears ...

The English Beat singer Dave Wakeling considers “Which Side of the Bed” to be an “ironic celebration of the battle of the sexes.” He explains that the track is about the emotional distance between a ...

The English Beat, known simply as the Beat in England (a U.S. act's claim to the name caused the band to add "English" to the moniker here in the States), made three excellent, musically distinct and ...

The leadoff track on Here We Go Love, the first new English Beat album since 1982, is called “How Can You Stand There?” Musically, the song answers its own question by jolting your system with four ...