He also introduced Simple Minds to producer Tony Hollingsworth and they became the first major act to agree to perform at Hollingsworth’s Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute concert, which was broadcast worldwide from London’s Wembley Stadium, on 11 June 1988. In early 1986, he took part in the Red Wedge tour that also featured The Style Council, The Communards, Junior Giscombe, Lorna Gee and other special guests. In 1985, in the wake of the Band Aid single, he organised the recording and release of the “Starvation” single, a version of The Pioneers‘ 1969 song, in aid of famine relief in Africa, featuring members of The Special AKA, UB40, Madness, The Pioneers, and The Beat. ![]() He became an anti- apartheid campaigner, helping to create Artists Against Apartheid in the U.S., and writing the song “ Free Nelson Mandela” about the jailed African National Congress leader in South Africa. ![]() He founded 2 Tone Records, which helped develop the 1970s/1980s ska revival. ![]() He had been a member of The Cissy Stone Soul Band, and studied art at Coventry’s Lanchester Polytechnic (now Coventry University), where he met Horace Panter. Jerry Dammers attended King Henry VIII School, Coventry.ĭammers was a Mod in the 1960s, then became a hippie, before becoming a skinhead. ![]() Dammers was born in Ootacamund, Tamil Nadu, South India, the son of Horace Dammers who was later Dean of Bristol Cathedral from 1973 to 1987.
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