rude boy

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rude boy

n
1. (Pop Music) (in Britain)a member of a group of often delinquent teenagers in the late 1970s and early 1980s, noted for listening to ska music and wearing suits with trilby or similar soft felt hats
2. (Pop Music) (in Jamaica)a member of a group of lower- or working-class teenagers in the 1960s, noted for listening to ska music and for juvenile delinquency: they inspired the later rude-boy fashion in Britain
Also called: rudie, rudy or rudi
[C20: originally Jamaican slang, from rude in the sense of coarse, vulgar, or uncouth]
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Then on Friday, October 18, at 7.45pm, the film Rudeboy: The Story of Trojan Records tells how Jamaican and British music combined to create a cultural revolution in the 60s and 70s.Tickets include an invite to an after-party featuring the sounds ofTrojan Records.
Headline acts include Mr Neville Staple, the original rudeboy, former frontman of The Specials and all-round musical icon.
Tonight there's a sold-out screening of Rudeboy, the story of Trojan Records and the influence of Jamaican ska and reggae on British youth culture in the 60s and 70s.
Some of the names on the album include Tiwa Savage, Davido, Olamide, Rudeboy, Patoranking and many more.
Fury, who in November 2015 became the first fighter in 11 years to defeat Klitschko and transform the heavyweight picture into the one in which Joshua has thrived, then wrote: "I might be fat but you're a paper champ and paper-chinned weightlifting rudeboy, wannabe badman.
Also known as The Original Rudeboy, he has a 35-year career in the music business behind him from The Specials and FunBoy3 in the late Seventies and early Eighties to a solo career.
THOSE who know The Specials/2-Tone story will know that part of its early history began with Original Rudeboy Neville Staple and Trevor "ET Rockers" Evans and The Jah Baddis Sound System, before Neville joined the band.
The tracks are "Never Give Up", "Real Steel", "King of the Road", "The Boogieman", "The Chase", "Rudeboy Razor", "Knowledge Shine Bright", "A Rebel in Blue", "Musical Murder", "Queen of Sheba", "Wrong Side of the Line", and "Revolution."
I've had all my things out the storage room thrown out at 3 in the morning sounds like someone's walking up and down my landing taps turn on by themselves someone knocks on my upstairs window from outside which is next to impossible unless you get a ladder up David Grey: There is no such thing as ghosts - it was aliens that did it Michelle Harris: Well i know it happens and experienced it personally not in this house but in my mother's home and in my own home Rudeboy Raz: All we need now is a selfie.
In LEEDS, the Rudeboy Headshop has opened on the site of a vintage clothes store.
Hits such as Rudeboy, Call My Name and Umbrella, as well as a mellow version of Take A Bow, had the crowd going mad.
He described the yob, who was wearing tracksuit bottoms and a beanie hat, as a "teenage rudeboy" who appeared drunk and had been winding up Ant all evening.