In a startling interview reveals singer Terry Hall from the English hitgruppe The Specials, that he, as a 12-year-old was kidnapped by a paedophile-ring in France.
The now 59-year-old frontman tells the comedian Richard Herring about the kidnapping of a podcast.
It will write to the BBC and several other british media.
Terry Hall says that the traumatic incident where he was abused in several days, got him to drop out of school at the age of 14, and it has given him severe depression.
– It is unfortunate that it happened to me, but you can’t let it destroy his life. It is not good, ” says the singer.
– I am bipolar and avoided all forms of medication for a long time, but 10 years ago I started to take Lithium, and I am still on. It helps in a way, says Terry Hall.
The Specials are an institution on the british music scene.
In the years around 1980, reached the band’s skapop out to the masses, and they went right to the top of the british charts with the ep “Too Much Too Young’ and the single ‘Ghost Town’, which has classic status.
the Band has inspired, among others, Blur and the late Amy Winehouse.
The Specials have today issued the album ‘Encore’.
Terry Hall is the father of two sons.
