Ghost Town, Forty Years On
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Ghost Town, Forty Years On
Image: © A J Paxton Taken: 26 Aug 2021
An advert for The Specials' UK Tour 2021 can be seen pasted on the side of a phone box on Stoney Stanton Road, Coventry, near the junction with St Paul's Road, with the tower block Falkener House visible in the distance. The house behind the phone box and to the left is a mosque, as is evident from the sign on the front showing a green dome and minaret. The photo was taken in August 2021, forty years after the Coventry two-tone ska & reggae band The Specials had a no. 1 hit with their song Ghost Town, describing the economic decline, urban decay and rising youth anger in Coventry and other British cities where they had toured https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Town_(Specials_song) .
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