5/22/2005

Happy Birthday Jerry Dammers.


Founder and keyboard player of the Coventry based band the Coventry Automatics. They later changed their name to The Specials (later changed to the Special A.K.A.).

Jerry is also the founder of Two Tone Records. He became a noted anti-apartheid campaigner, and wrote the song "Free Nelson Mandela" about the jailed South African ANC leader.