História de uma canção #1: Little Bitch (The Specials)

"Little Bitch" faz parte do álbum de estreia dos Specials. Meio mundo conhecerá o seu riff de guitarra depois dos Dandy Warhols o terem utilizado de forma descarada e desonesta num tema que serviu para promover uma conhecida marca ligada às comunicações. Mas "Little Bitch" tem também uma história engraçada, contada na primeira pessoa pelo seu compositor, Jerry Dammers, o teclista e líder dos Specials. No depoimento com que a edição especial Mojo/Q relativa ao revivalismo do Ska em Inglaterra termina, Dammers diz a determinada altura:

After my foundation year at Nottingham my first choice of art college was Leeds, which was supposed to be the most radical in the country. I didn't take any paintings to the interview, I tried to pull a "Pete Townshed" type scam. I told them I was going to create a "pop art" band instead of doing any paintings. I said it would be like "a modern version of The Who" -- all I had was a tape of me singing Little Bitch which The Specials ended up doing about four years later (not to mention The Ordinary Boys 29 years later). Too radical! The teacher doing the interview just laughed and shook his head in disbelief and showed me the door. (...) It might sound a bit prattish now, but if it hadn't been for that bold and crazy move at the first interview I might have actually got in at Leeds college and there would have been no Specials and no 2-Tone as we know it.