2 Tone Records

2 Tone Records was the label set up by Jerry Dammers and The Specials to release their own records. In theory, the label was run as a collective, of which Terry Hall would have been a member, although it is not known how much interest he took in the business side.

The label became highly influential, issuing the debut singles by Madness, The Beat, and The Selecter. Other groups associated with the label included The Swinging Cats, two of whose members would later form The Colour Field with Terry Hall; The Bodysnatchers, whose singer Rhoda Dakar would join The Special AKA, while other members went on to enjoy more success with pop group The Belle Stars; and The Higsons.

2 Tone material, particularly by The Specials, has been endlessly anthologised on compilation albums over the years.

Hall's association with 2 Tone ended when he, Neville Staple, and Lynval Golding, quit The Specials to form The Fun Boy Three in the summer of 1981.