Ranking Roger Author

Daniel Rachel wrote his first song when he was sixteen and was the lead-singer in Rachels Basement. He was first eligible to vote in the 1992 General Election and now lives in north London with his partner and three children. Daniel is the author of Isle of Noises: Conversations with Great British Songwriters - a Guardian and NME Book of the Year- and Walls Come Tumbling Down: the music and politics of Rock Against Racism, 2 Tone and Red Wedge - winner of the Penderyn Music Book prize 2017. Ranking Roger is a British musician, vocalist in the 1980s two-tone band 'The Beat' and later for 'General Public'. He currently leads and tours with a reformed 'The Beat' line-up.