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June 13, 2020

If you have a racist friend Now is the time, now is the time for your friendship to end — mrjyn (@mrjyn) 13 juin 2020




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In the Studio is the third studio album by British ska revival band the Specials. It was released under the name the Special AKA in June 1984. The album took over two years to produce before finally seeing release, by which time the original Specials had long since disbanded.

In the Studio was ranked No. 3 among the "Albums of the Year" for 1984 by NME.[7] It charted in the UK Top 35. It was not as commercially successful as their previous two albums, although "(Free) Nelson Mandela" became an international hit single.

And so it proved when they released In the Studio 1984, while it didn’t contain anything as willful or harrowing as The Boiler, its worldview was so bleak as to make previous Specials albums – no barrel of laughs themselves – seem like the

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If you have a racist friend

Now is the time, now is the time for your friendship to end

Be it your sister
Be it your brother
Be it your cousin or your, uncle or your lover
If you have a racist friend
now is the time, now is the time for your friendship to end
Be it your best friend
Or any other
Is it your husband or your father or your mother?
Tell them to change their views
Or change their friends
Now is the time, now is the time, for your friendship to end
So if you know a racist who thinks he is your friend
Now is the time, now is the time for your friendship to end
Call yourself my friend?
Now is the time to make up your mind, don't try to pretend
Be it your sister
Be it your brother
Be it your cousin or your uncle or your lover
So if you are a racist
Our friendship has got to end
And if your friends are racists don't pretend to be my friend
So if you have a racist friend
Now is the time, now is the time for our friendship to end
Goodbye

Songwriters: Dick Cuthell / Jerry Dammers / John Edward Bradbury
Racist Friend lyrics © BMG

All tracks composed by Jerry Dammers except where noted.

  1. "Bright Lights" (John Bradbury, Stan Campbell, Dick Cuthell, Dammers) – 4:11
  2. "The Lonely Crowd" (Campbell, Dammers, John Shipley) – 3:52
  3. "What I Like Most About You Is Your Girlfriend" – 4:50
  4. "Housebound" – 4:13
  5. "Night on the Tiles" (Dammers, Shipley) – 3:04
  6. "(Free) Nelson Mandela" – 4:07
  7. "War Crimes" – 6:13
  8. "Racist Friend" (Bradbury, Cuthell, Dammers) – 3:49
  9. "Alcohol" – 5:01
  10. "Break Down the Door" (Bradbury, Cuthell, Dammers) – 3:36

Personnel

The Special AKA
Additional personnel
Technical
  • Jerry Dammers - production
  • Dick Cuthell - production on "The Lonely Crowd" and "War Crimes"[11]
  • Elvis Costello - production on "Nelson Mandela"[12]
  • Nigel Reeve – remastering coordination
  • Noel Summerville – remastering
  • Adrian Thrills – sleeve notes
  • David Storey – album cover design
  • Mark Freegard - recording engineer at Wessex Studios


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