Jerry Dammers & Friends - 'Free Nelson Mandela'

  • 17 years ago
Jerry Dammers is keyboard player for Special AKA (The Specials) group from Coventy, UK. He also contributed in founding the 2 Tone record label, which helped to popularize the new sound of the ska revival in the 1980s. He became a noted anti-apartheid campaigner, writing the song "Free Nelson Mandela" about the jailed South African ANC leader; plus organizing the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute concert, which was broadcast worldwide from London's Wembley Stadium, on June 11, 1988.

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