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Rhoda Dakar Sings The Bodysnatchers - 45 Year Edition

    It has been 45 years since the world was first introduced to all-female 2Tone trailblazers The Bodysnatchers. Despite only releasing two official 7" singles, their influence on UK culture and music continues to inspire to this day. To celebrate 45 years of The Bodysnatchers, founding member Rhoda Dakar has revisited some of their glorious tracks and recorded them with a band including Specials mates Horace Panter and Lynval Golding, festival favourites Intensified, plus members of Pama International and the Sidewalk Doctors. This 45 year edition also arrives with three extra tracks, including a re-record of ‘Let's Do Rocksteady’ featuring The Interrupters’ very own Aimee Allen. “Firstly, it’s brilliant to see this album get a proper, all-format release! And secondly, to feature one of the genre’s star vocalists of today feels like the torch is well and truly passed!”

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    1. Easy Life
    2. The Ghost Of The Vox Continental
    3. Happy Time Tune
    4. 007
    5. Private Eye
    6. Too Experienced
    7. Let’s Do Rocksteady
    8. The Loser
    9. Mixed Feelings
    10. Hiawatha
    11. Ruder Than You At 45
    12. Let’s Do Rocksteady @ 45 Ft. Aimee Interrupter
    13. What’s This? (Acoustic)

    Rhoda Dakar

    The Man Who Sold The World

      Rhoda Dakar is back with her first solo album in seven years with Version Girl, a collection of reggae and ska covers by artists and songwriters she admires. Rhoda Dakar began her musical career as lead vocalist with all female 2Tone band, The Bodysnatchers. They only ever released two singles, 'Let's Do Rocksteady' and 'Easy Life'. After a year together they split and Rhoda went on to guest with The Specials in Europe and the USA, having featured on their second album, 'More Specials', for which she won the first of her seven gold records. After their demise, and before joining Jerry Dammers' new project, she recorded The Bodysnatchers' first original song, 'The Boiler', a harrowing tale of date rape, which was inevitably banned. The Special AKA spent the next two years recording 'In The Studio', spawning a top ten hit with 'Free Nelson Mandela'.

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      1. The Man Who Sold The World
      2. The Man Who Dubbed The World


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