Ranking Roger, English Beat founder and frontman, dead at 56

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Roger Charlery, best known as 'Ranking Roger,' lead singer of the influential ska band the English Beat, has died at the age of 56.

Sting said in an Instagram post Wednesday that Charlery had been part of"one of the most influential periods in the history of British pop music," as Caribbean music and culture met"young white bands struggling to find an identity in Thatcher's disunited kingdom."

He said Charlery had been at the center of a"febrile and explosive clash of cultures, uniquely placed to document the excitement of those times."Born Feb. 21, 1963, in Birmingham, England, Charlery’s parents were part of the so-calledEssential California Newsletter

 

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