The success of 2-tone and bands like Madness made skinhead acceptable for advertising use in the early 1980s, with this gang of wheat-based skins regularly showing up on TV in ad breaks.
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The success of 2-tone and bands like Madness made skinhead acceptable for advertising use in the early 1980s, with this gang of wheat-based skins regularly showing up on TV in ad breaks.
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Next week sees the publication of a revised Dance Craze by Garry Bushell, which was originally produced as a magazine at the height of the 2-Tone craze. I recall buying the magazine at the time, but it was either cut up and stuck on my wall or swapped for some vinyl at a later date. The film never made it to my home town of Margate, possibly because of the worries of local cinemas and council alike of the reaction of the town’s large skinhead population.
