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Lily Allen feat. Terry Hall & Lynval Golding

Gangsters

2007 · via The Specials

Lily Allen feat. Terry Hall & Lynval Golding’s earliest release of “Gangsters” on file came out in 2007. Lynval Golding and Terry Hall share the writing credit with John Bradbury, Roderick James Byers, Jerry Dammers, Horace Panter and Neville Staple. The earliest release on file is The Specials’, from 1979. Also recorded by Special Beat (released 1992), Fun Boy Three (released 1994) and Dub Pistols feat. Terry Hall (released 2007), among 43 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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The credit on Gangsters is a group signature, and the song kept calling its people home: Lily Allen cut it with Terry Hall and Lynval Golding standing right beside her. Put that one on and listen for familiar voices.

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Credited writers: John Bradbury, Roderick James Byers, Jerry Dammers, Lynval Golding, Terry Hall, Horace Panter and Neville Staple.

Earliest release on file: The Specials, 1979.

Other recordings on file · first release year

43 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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