New Order performed at Hyde Park with Blur and The Specials to celebrate the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony.

Eternity Specials are powerful special attacks that drain the Special bar when performed.

From 9 to 13 August 2010, five " 10th Anniversary Specials " aired at the usual time on BBC One.

The notoriety of the gang, which was part of a wider group in loyalist north and west Belfast known as the " NF Skinz " because of their support for the ideas of the National Front, gained widespread notoriety on 14 January 1981 when " Seig Heiling " members launched a brutal attack on anti-racist fans of The Specials and The Beat when the two bands played a concert at the Ulster Hall.

The Specials began at the same time as Rock Against Racism which first gathered in 1978.

Reverting once again to the moniker The Specials, the band's second album, More Specials was not as commercially successful and was recorded at a time when, according to Terry Hall, conflicts had developed in the band.

In 2007, Hall teamed up with Golding for the first time in 24 years, to play Specials songs at two music festivals.

The Specials performing at Brixton Academy, London, May 2009 as part of their 30th anniversary tour.

The following month, Golding and Bradbury expressed their intentions to release further original Specials material at a later date.

In an interview at the Green Room in Manchester in November 2010, Terry Hall confirmed that there would be further Specials dates in the Autumn of 2011, and confessed to having enjoyed playing live again ; " It's a celebration of something that happened in your life that was important, and we're going to do that again next year, but then maybe that'll be it.

* BBC Coventry & Warwickshire-The Specials at the Ricoh

In June 1981 The Bureau played a gig supporting Hazel O ' Connor and The Specials at Butts Athletic Stadium in Coventry.

This track also included a sample from " Man at C & A " by The Specials.

For a while, The Specials were managed by The Clash's manager Bernard Rhodes of whom Neville used to toast " Bernie Rhodes knows don't argue " at the beginning of the Specials hit single " Gangsters ".

Mott the Hoople, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, McFly, Morrissey, The Specials and Space have all released live DVDs or videos of concerts filmed at the venue.

United Kingdom ska act The Specials referenced the store in " Man at C & A " on the 1980 album More Specials.

She guested with the Dub Pistols in May 2009, reprising " Dub Be Good to Me ", at their support slot to The Specials at the O2 Academy, Brixton.

* A Specials – full-time and paid, worked alongside regular RIC men, but could not be posted outside their home areas ( regular RIC officers could be posted anywhere in the country ); usually served at static checkpoints.

' A Specials ' were initially given six weeks training at Newtownards Camp in police duties, the use of arms, drill and discipline.

Uniforms were not available at the outset so the men of the B Specials went on duty in their civilian clothes wearing an armband to signify they were Specials.

Also, he appeared in animated form in a few Weekend Specials, including Cap ’ n O. G. Readmore Meets Chicken Little and Cap ’ n O. G. Readmore Meets Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ; in these features, he was the president of an all-feline book club, the Friday Night Book Club, who often found himself physically pulled into the story he ’ s reading.

Foster was also featured in Under the Desert Sky in 2006, Vivere Live in Tuscany in 2007, the My Christmas Special, in 2009, and Live In Central Park, in 2011, Andrea Bocelli's four latest PBS Specials.

Shows include The Beatle Years with Bob Malik, Beatle Brunch with Joe Johnson, Country Countdown USA, Superstar Concert Series, " Absolutely Live ," Country Gold ( in most markets, also known as Country Gold Saturday Night, but also available on Sunday ), Randy Jackson's Hit List with Randy Jackson and Kesha Monk, 106 and Park Weekend Countdown with Terrence and Rocsi, MTV TRL Weekend Countdown, Off the Record with Mary Turner and later Joe Benson, VH1 Concerts and Specials, Out of Order with Jed the Fish, and the Country Six Pack of holiday music specials.

Since moving, the festival has expanded in size with a mix of bands such as The Killers, Kings of Leon, Travis, Texas, Green Day, Foo Fighters, Garbage, Moby, Iggy Pop, Stereophonics, R. E. M., The Proclaimers, The Darkness, Idlewild, Muse, Razorlight, Maxïmo Park, The Polyphonic Spree, The Specials, The Chemical Brothers and Kasabian.

The comic also ran A4-sized Beano Specials in 1987 with full coloured pages, which later were replaced by Beano Superstars which ran for 121 issues from 1992-2002.

All handguns with a barrel length under 4 inches are prohibited, as well as those chambered in. 25 or. 32 caliber cartridges, presumably to prevent the manufacture of " Saturday Night Specials ".

Mad included some of these tracks as plastic-laminated cardboard inserts and ( later ) flexi-discs with their reprinted " Mad Specials.

Since 1986, Doe has also maintained a busy second career as an actor, appearing in such films as Oliver Stone's Salvador, Allison Anders ' Border Radio and Sugar Town, the Jerry Lee Lewis biopic Great Balls of Fire, Miguel Arteta's The Good Girl, Craig Mazin's The Specials, Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights, and the independent feature Roadside Prophets, in which he starred with Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz.

The B Specials, proved highly controversial to some, with the unit seen by some nationalists as more anti-Catholic and anti-nationalist than the RUC, which, unlike the B Specials, did attract some Catholic recruits.

Fewer than half the required number of Catholics came forward and the balance was made up with more A Specials, who continued to exist as a separate force.

They joined up with keyboardist Mickey Billingham ( Dexys Midnight Runners ), guitarist Mick Jones ( The Clash ), bassist Horace Panter ( The Specials ) and drummer Stoker ( Dexys Midnight Runners / The Bureau ) to form a quasi-supergroup of the UK punk / ska / mod scene.

According to Dammers, anti-racism was intrinsic to the formation of The Specials, in that the band was formed with the goal of integrating black and white people.

Roddy Radiation fronted and worked with several bands including The Tearjerkers ( a band that he had begun in the last months of The Specials ), The Bonediggers, The Raiders and Three Men & Black which included of Jean-Jacques Burnel ( The Stranglers ), Jake Burns ( Stiff Little Fingers ), Pauline Black ( The Selecter ), Bruce Foxton ( The Jam ), Dave Wakeling ( The Beat, General Public ) and Nick Welsh ( Skaville UK ).

In the early 1990s, members of The Beat teamed up with members of The Specials to form Special Beat.

In 1996, with ska enjoying a resurgence in mainstream popularity on North American radio and MTV, several members of The Specials reunited to record Today's Specials, a studio album mostly of reggae and ska covers.

* Panter, Horace ( 2007 ) Ska'd for Life-A Personal Journey with the " Specials ", Sidgwick & Jackson, ISBN 978-0-283-07029-7

The term was coined by The Specials ' keyboardist Jerry Dammers, who — with the assistance of Horace Panter and graphic designer John " Teflon " Sims — created the iconic Walt Jabsco logo ( a man in a black suit, white shirt, black tie, pork pie hat, white socks and black loafers ) to represent the 2 Tone genre.

His television ministry continued with The Abundant Life program reaching 80 % of the United States by 1957, and quarterly Prime Time Specials from 1969 through 1980.

Neville's first involvement with The Specials was when they were still called The Coventry Automatics.

When The Specials split up, Neville departed with Terry Hall and Lynval Golding, to form Fun Boy Three.

In April 2009, Neville Staple set out on a reunion tour with The Specials .< ref >

Some are connected with local history and the Railway whilst, as on other heritage lines, Thomas the Tank Engine and Santa Specials provide a commercial underpinning to the Company's activities.

The Brittas Empire was broadcast for fifty-two episodes between 1991 and 1997, spanning seven series and two Christmas Specials, along with one short episode for Children in Need.