THE MATERIAL
RECORD
music group

The Specials

The physical front cover explicitly prints “THE SPECIALS, SUMMER ’81” beneath Terry Hall’s portrait.

Overview

The Specials

The physical front cover explicitly prints “THE SPECIALS, SUMMER ’81” beneath Terry Hall’s portrait.

Official Charts records The Specials’ “Ghost Town” at UK No. 1 during July 1981, independently verifying the group identity and the issue’s contemporary context.

Why it matters

The Specials is retained as a TMR relationship because accession evidence directly identifies it in connection with a preserved Magazines object.

Coverage

Magazinesmusic group
Research note

This accession-created authority record is deliberately limited to the supplied physical-object evidence; unsupported dates, personnel, locations, history and relationships are not inferred.

The Material Record

2 objects

TMR holdings represented across 1980–1981.