ATX Sound System: March 31, 2019
Remembering Ranking Roger and the (English) Beat
There’s a funny moment captured in an early British TV documentary of The (English) Beat, shot while the band was in the studio recording their second album in 1981. A massive pair of hedge shears is being opened and closed in the vocal booth by guitarist Andy Cox because the band decided that the “ssshk ssshk” sound they make would be a good addition to the rhythm track for the song “All Out To Get You”.…