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This from the Facebook page of Horace Panter, Specials bassist… The Specials. Terry. This is what happened. We had it all planned out. Make the album we were going to do in 2020 – a reggae album. Record in Los Angeles in November. We had the studio booked, flights paid for, accommodation sorted. Roger Rivas from The Agrolites was going to co-produce. Shepard Fairey was going to do the cover. Lynval, still recovering from his spinal surgery earlier in the year, was over in the UK and raring to go. Terry had the framework for 8 tunes. Confidence was high. We were set to meet up with Nikolaj and make magic. This was in September. Terry e-mails everyone and says he’s in bed with a stomach bug and can’t do the first week of pre-production sessions. No big deal, we can knock everything back a week. We’re not due to fly out until November 4th. The next week, Terry is no better and is in hospital. There’s not much we can do except wait for him to get better. Sunday October 2nd and I get a phone call from Manager Steve. And everything turns to shit. Terry’s illness is a lot worse than we thought. He has been diagnosed with cancer of the pancreas which has spread to his liver. This is serious. Like life-threatening serious. He has developed diabetes due to his pancreas being attacked. This has to be treated first, then it’s a regime of chemotherapy. There is nothing anyone can do. Everything is put on hold. Terry is emphatic that no-one be told about this. If anyone asks, he’s managing his diabetes. The chemo treatment starts favourably but it seems that it would be March 2023 at the earliest before we’d be in any position to work. He is in and out of hospital to stabilise the diabetes issue and also to manage pain. It then goes quiet. Beginning of December and reports are not good. Terry has lost a lot of weight and is very frail. His friend Ian Broudie visits and phones Manager Steve. He fears that Terry is slipping away. 15th December and Manager Steve drives up to London to visit. He calls me on his return journey and says things are not looking promising. Terry is dying. The next day he is put on morphine and is more-or-less unconscious for most of the time. I thought it would be best for me to go and visit but Lindy, his wife, advises against it. She has held her phone to Terry’s ear so that his sisters and Lynval can say their goodbyes. She suggests I do the same. So, I did. It was tough. Terry died around half past 5 the next evening, Sunday 18th December. The world has lost a unique voice and I have lost a good friend. Horace.

It’s fuckin shite not to have a summariser to whinge about tbh

FULL STRENGTH Eddie had a rep for not taking cups seriously at Bournemouth

Actually I might take my original comment back, I think 2002 was great as well, Turkey & South Korea in the semis (hosts doing well is always good) and The Real Ronaldo getting his WC . Getting pissed on weekday mornings/lunchtimes watching England flatter to deceive again was good too, think it was the last time my peer group did that en masse as well, before the realities of parenthood hit us… well, some of us My all time favourite WC us 1990 but I think there have been better tournaments football wise if that makes sense? ie I was just about to turn 21 and had just left home

Disagree. I think it’s been the best World Cup this century

That’s spot on like. I don’t think he’s a cunt tbh, he talks a lot of sense about the game in general. He is being very sniffy about the last month though. He says it wasn’t as good as 2006 or 2016, tbh I strongly disagree with that but as you say he’ll have a far different perspective than we do on it all.

Hasn’t someone relatively reliable suggested that a deal for Maddison won’t be done next month?

I’ve had the flu jab but not bothered with the covid booster… it’s wiped me out every time I’ve had a covid jab and I’ve subsequently gone on to get it anyway 🤷🏻‍♂️ @Renton what happened to the claims that the jab would prevent infection? Is it a case of different variants/strains slipping through the net? 🤔

Has any of the slightly more senior posters on here taken the winter booster?

Henry Winter didn’t like the World Cup, the posh cunt

Leave a turd in the soulless cunts desk draw . Hall was bi polar but not diagnosed till 2004

Was surprised at how upset I was last night. Strange mixture of him being the epitome of melancholy in the first place but also images of kids wandering around schools in pork pie hats and shades, some of whom didn’t make it.. Two Tone was ours, those of us too young for punk. Made awkward young lads embrace the dance floor for the first time . It was unique and of it’s time only but left a huge legacy.

2nd record I ever bought, January 1980 RIP Terry 😞

Look at the names.. those fuckers will let Trump swing

BREAKING: DAVE & THE BOYS ARE BACK!!!

It’s the collab of the year @Meenzer

I didn’t mind Jenas last night…he didn’t call black white for a change

Showimg your age

Love an Argie World Cup winner

Fuckin hell Best final I can remember

Well not poor but yeah, they “just found a way to win” #mediaclichebingo

Soft as fuck but aye…Argentina have just got better and better as they’ve gone through the tournament. France put them out in the last 16 in Russia and tbh that’s all I expected from them this time round too..

France save their worst 45 mins in very likely a decade for a World Cup final…maybe illness worse than they’ve let on?

Am not sure I’d enjoy a festive glass of egg nog with her or her husband but the abuse they get is out of all proportion to their alleged “crimes” . The people lapping this shit up and amplifying it are also likely to have put “be kind” in their social media profiles when Caroline Flack took her own life. These two members of the Royal Family have told lies? Wait till they hear about how Harry’s old man treated his mother, and how his grandmother stopped not only his father but also her own sister from marrying the people they loved when they wanted to. I wish every single useless dysfunctional deviant fuckin one of them would just piss off and take the obsessed wankers in the media like Morgan and the entire Daily Mail staff with them Merry fuckin Christmas 😒