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The Specials – Too Much Too Young (2:03)

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“Too Much Too Young” is based on the 1969 song “Birth Control” by Lloyd Charmers. It is sometimes wrongly stated that the song was banned by the BBC due to mentions of contraception in the lyrics. This is not true - however, when the song’s promotional video was featured on Top of the Pops, it was cut off just before reaching the final line, “try wearing a cap”.

The song became an instant smash topping the UK singles chart for two weeks in January 1980. It was the first live recording to top the chart since Chuck Berry’s “My Ding-A-Ling” in 1972. It was the shortest song to reach #1 on the UK singles chart in the 1980s at 2’04”
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  • Best of the Specials
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  • d0l

    blech, beans on toast. s'ghetti on toast is much better.

    March 2012

  • lefthandedmoth

    I love how much snottiness intertwines with idealism in this song. "You're married with a kid when you could be having fun WITH ME!"

    March 2012

  • ladyemero

    haha making currant buns for tea...

    March 2012

  • Kexet1

    How could they ban this song? Condoms for the win!

    February 2012

  • chingbling

    Can you have to much when you're young? Take it while you can. Life can kick you in the nuts.

    February 2012

  • chingbling

    The Specials were special

    January 2012

  • shootbob

    I had too much too young butI im a bloke who kept on the move hence the name

    January 2012

  • NitaD1

    Was....once!!!

    January 2012

  • Bluekool8

    should be havin fun with me! Sspeeshal 8

    December 2011

  • blacklizard63

    The fast version was live (and the single). This is the album version

    December 2011

  • nick_honest

    great song

    October 2011

  • prominence_la

    @RussellChap - No! I remember a faster version, too, that I fell in love with (indeed, that's how I found the Specials). Although the slower version is certainly clearer.

    October 2011

  • Adrian956

    randomly found this song on youtube a day after I found out that "she" was getting married to a douchbag.

    September 2011

  • RussellChap

    Um...It seems a lot slower than I remember...Or is that me?

    September 2011

  • telecine

    SO bloody special!

    September 2011

  • selimteh

    Now, they were special !!!!!!!!

    August 2011

  • fergustobin

    Raw

    August 2011

  • ReducedCapacity

    wow...........years since I heard this..........I remember dancing to this as kid and thinking I was well cool...............the passing years have proved my youthful optimism to be just that :(

    July 2011

  • MarkAlien

    Version in a Rocksteady style!

    May 2011

  • omnomnomlove

    *loves*

    May 2011
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