On the first of two sold-out nights at Belly Up, The English Beat ’s Dave Wakeling invited the crowd to forget the worries of ...

Roger Charlery, the English singer-songwriter behind the seminal two-tone band The Beat (known in the U.S. as the English Beat) and successful successor group General Public, died Tuesday from ...

Pioneering a British revival of Jamaican sounds mixed with elements of pop and punk, along with contemporaries such as The Specials, The Selector and Madness, The Beat (known as The English Beat in ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...