The Bodysnatchers, Do the Rocksteady

[paudub70]

a ha

[fwahstatus]

oyeh

[asceticification]

Sarah (lead guitar), Stella (rhythm guitar), Penny (keyboards) and Miranda (alto sax) went on to form the overrated Belle stars. Rhoda Dakar joined the Special AKA for a while until Jerry Dammers went broke. The Summers sisters, meanwhile, Nicky, the bassist and Jane, the drummer left the music industry to sell lingerie in the company of their third sister Anne.

[thorshammer1348]

I WAS IN NEW YORK CITY IN THE WEST VILLAGE @THIS THRIFT STORE & FOUND A BODYSNATCHERS BUTTON,TO ME IT WAS RARE FIND,I KEPT IT ALL ME LIFE, LOVE THESE GIRLS MUSIC !

[05blueboy]

got all this on 45s love the sax player x she can dance

[latenite]

the singer joined Special AKA, most of the rest became the Belle Stars

[clintxoxox]

love the song,but i cant fall for the vid...still good

[macdonb1888]

being a punk in the 70's-80's i hated this music. but being a lot older now i feckin love listen to this with a glass of wine...happy days

[RobbieReineldt]

Sarah-Jane I still love you! Oh and you too Miranda!

[desomationxmatt]

bloody brilliant, makes you wanna get up at jig!

[SKRESISTE]

amo a estas viejas, GOO RUDE GIRL SKA! ruge girl forever!!! Rocksteady

union,,resist.musika

[stoneroses13]

i love this band!

[AlexKnowsStuff]

they also went on to form .......the belle stars

[LeshaAnn]

Oh, tanks brudda, this song NEVER fails to put smile on my face, and a spring in me step!!

[Medalion]

Nice to hear some 2-tone from an all-girl group, wondered what it would sound like!

[777philip]

Fun Times!!!

[greatfelixo]

do rocksteady

[polini210]

on sax.. little mirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrranda.. 

pity the girls aint back together playing to complete last piece of the puzzle of the 2-tone label bands 30 years on....

[floppybollox3]

Great girls, great times.

[rob58166]

nice 2 see an artist enjoying her music...happy dayz rockin

[GeneralDisarray1892]

gosh this is one of those songs that makes me question how anyone cant like ska / two tone

[rob58166]

lead singers a good mover

[yonexseven]

ILL BE SKAANKING IN MY GRAVE

[caseykay2008]

shes amy winehouse inspiration,,,,...  excellent....

[BandDFilms]

Except Rhoda's way cooler than Amy Winehouse could ever wish to be.

[PoireauMan68]

you bet...watch other BODYSNATCHERS vidz...went to dance schools...maybe had good dancing shoes too.

[punkyjones]

Me gusta me gusta!!!yeah

[TECKMASSE]

ça balance !!!

[browneyedgirl39]

I heard this in a pub last night and loved it but can't seem to find it anywhere to download.

[982Munchie]

Starting at 1:44, is that the drummer making fun of the playback by overtly "directing" the band, facing away from her kit without making any pretense of touching the drums, whatsoever? A move reminiscent of the Specials!

[Reint25]

It is indeed. Very funny.

[lloyd525]

original rude girls.

[UsulOngaku]

@lloyd525 I don't mean this in the usual prove-you-wrong manner people usually reply with on youtube, but they're actually 15-20 years too young to be the original rude girls. The original rude girls were from Jamaica in the late 50s-60s. But I give credit for knowing the term :-)

[lloyd525]

@UsulOngaku Thats a fair point haha. Completely passed my mind :P

[002Tone]

@UsulOngaku Although i understand the point you are making. This is second wave ska, or 2tone which was in the late 70's. And the term was still relevant then among ska fans of the time. And yes i was one of those Rudeboys, who through 2tone got to know most of the original ska/bluebeat bands.

[002Tone]

So good to see this after many years, great sound of ska

[templusmilitia]

luv you gangster ladys

[nottishtoday]

tunage of the highest order!

[cletor1]

cool

saludos de mexico

[PIPorker]

Sarah Jane Owen was a beautiful woman in the 80s

[PoireauMan68]

@PIPorker so when did she seize to be beautiful...I agree the nineties were ugly did SG get uglier during that time now she's back being her natural beauty...you're a plastic surgeon?

[hopki65]

they then became the belle stars

[dazler1]

love rhoda dancin in this takes me back to the 2tone days skankin with my skinhead rude girls

[mano8er]

RRRRRRRRRRUDE GIRLSSSSSSS!!!

[BandLdubclub]

That british sound from then is great fun.

Interesting Mandella story there too... :)

[suspectdevice71]

That Chicks got a beehive! All those years before that skank Amy Winehouse came along and ruined the beehive forever. Thanks Amy you big drug addicted fool!

[suspectdevice71]

Great song! Famed Scottish adventurer Dr. Charles Follen McKim Maloney hired the Bodysnatchers to perform this song on a boat he sailed round and round the Island Nelson Mandella was imprisoned on, It was Maloneys way of celebrating Mandellas birthday. Mandella Thanked the doctor years later!

[locobuick]

Had beloved Scottish adventurer Dr. Charles Follen McKim Maloney not vanished on his hot-air balloon ride, he and Nelson Mandella would have had a great celebration with The Bodysnatchers upon his release from prison. It is a shame.

[PoireauMan68]

@locobuick I thought only RICHARD BRANSON was stoopid enough to do big balloon trips ...(waste of monies)(whereishenow? in a phone box near you...using his cellulare to check flights cancellations)(or weather forecast maybe)

[colinarch]

brlliant song bring on the skinheads skinheaads rule for ever

[SteveResin]

Great band, fantastic single. Wish they'd made an album.

[brodel77]

cool. bodysnatchers videos are few and far between. thanks for adding to YouTube.

[texplastics]

cool love the bodysnatches