Special Beat Service

Special Beat Service
Studio album by
Released1 October 1982 (1982-10-01)[1]
StudioRoundhouse Studios (London)
Genre
Length39:52
Label
ProducerBob Sargeant
Ranking Roger and Mike Hedges (only "Pato and Roger a Go Talk")
The Beat chronology
Wha'ppen?
(1981)
Special Beat Service
(1982)
What Is Beat?
(1983)
Singles from Special Beat Service
  1. "Save It for Later"
    Released: 2 April 1982
  2. "Jeanette"
    Released: 3 September 1982
  3. "I Confess"
    Released: 26 November 1982

Special Beat Service is the third studio album by the British ska band the Beat, released on 1 October 1982 by Go-Feet Records. Like the rest of their material, it was released in the US under the name "the English Beat". It peaked at No. 39 on the Billboard 200 album chart in 1983 on the strength of two singles, "I Confess" and "Save It for Later," the music videos for which received modest airplay on the fledgling MTV video network.

  1. ^ "News". Record Mirror: 7. 28 August 1982. Retrieved 8 February 2021 – via flickr.com.