General Public - All the Rage

First out of the gate with a new band after The English Beat's acrimonious fracture in June 1983, General Public was the first post-punk supergroup, gathering The Beat's Dave Wakeling and Ranking Roger, The Specials' Horace Panter, and other veterans of the U.K. ska revival. (Mick Jones, freshly booted from The Clash, was originally announced as General Public's lead guitarist; although he left the group very early on to start up Big Audio Dynamite and doesn't appear in the album photos, his guitar does appear on nearly all of the album's ten tracks.) Frankly, All The Rage could quite easily have been the fourth English Beat album, as it's a clear continuation from 1982's Special Beat Service. Read More