Soul Salvation - A Gen X Love Letter To The English Beat: Fried

Welcome back to the Ska Boom podcast!  This season is called Soul Salvation and its the companion to my new book “Soul Salvation – A Gen X Love Letter To The English Beat."

Through the book and this podcast I’m telling the story of the Special Beat Service album which embodies both the brilliance and the bittersweet end of the English Beat whose songs served as a soundtrack for thousands of Gen Xers like me.  

The book and this podcast is my tribute to the band’s final, triumphant act – which initially was largely overlooked – and how their music and the love of a young woman changed me forever.

This week’s episode is about the English Beat's bassist David Steele’s post-Fine Young Cannibals band Fried. Chances are you’ve never heard of Fried, but I’m hopeful that if you are a fan of my podcast and music made by all the former members of the English Beat, you’ll take my advice and check them out.  Take my word for it. You won’t regret it. On it you will hear all of Steele’s musical DNA stretching as far back as the English Beat’s first album and certainly the sounds on Special Beat Service.
 
My new book Soul Salvation : A Gen X Love Letter To The English Beat is now available from DiWulf.com and from Amazon globally. 

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