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Two Tone Britain

Nov 29, 2004 | IMDB 4.9

49 min Watch Now

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Documentary tracing the history of the Two Tone record label which emerged in the late 1970s, the bands linked to it and their musical influences, and its place at the fore of promoting multi-cultural music and concepts and the Ska music revival.

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Mark Lamarr, Pauline Black, Gurinder Chadha, Rajan Datar, Suggs, Neville Staple, JC Carroll, Garry Bushell, Roger Charlery, Paul Gilroy

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