This is my own top 10 pick of the greatest and most essential songs from the 2 Tone era. The single that kicked it all off, from the greatest ska band of them all. Written by visionary band leader ...

There was something genuinely political in the many voices unleashed by 2 Tone, including a very strong female roster: Pauline Black of the Selecter; the Bodysnatchers; Rhoda Dakar. In 1982, Dakar ...