Wrong Tom

Jan 29, 2025 | thequietus.com | Neil Kulkarni |John Doran |Wrong Tom

In a Holiday Inn overlooking a stark stretch of highway which cuts through the unassuming city of Norman, Oklahoma, Horace Panter received a punishingly early phone call from his manager, Rick Rogers who was trying to find a member of The Specials that wasn’t too hung over to celebrate with him. Rogers had just got word from England that the band’s latest single ‘Too Much Too Young’ had made it to number 1, but when he woke his own hungover roommate Jerry Dammers, he was told to calm down.