Get daily celeb exclusives and behind the scenes house tours direct to your inbox We have more newsletters Get daily celeb exclusives and behind the scenes house tours direct to your inbox We have more newsletters Probate documents have revealed that The Specials and Fun Boy Three singer Terry Hall left nearly £1 million to his family in his will. The music star, who was part of the ska music movement, died of cancer in December 2022 at the age of 63. Documents show his £952,000 estate is to be divided between his widow, Lindy Heymann, and his three children.
Lindy also inherits Terry’s share of The Specials’ royalties, a £100,000 tax free gift and the musician’s digital assets. Terry, who was born in Coventry in 1959, worked as a bricklayer and apprentice hairdresser before embarking on a career in music. He first performed with a local punk band before joining the Coventry Automatics, a band that became known as The Specials in 1979.
Featuring Terry and Neville Staple on vocals, the group also included Jerry Dammers on keyboards, guitarists Lynval Golding and Roddy Byers, drummer Silverton Hutchinson and bassist Horace Panter. The group scored hits with songs A Message to You Rudy and Too Much Too Young and had their first number one in 1981 with the now classic song Ghost Town. Terry later left the band with Neville and Lynval to form Fun Boy Three, and the new group had chart success with songs including It Ain’t What You Do (It’s the Way that You Do It), whi.