Sleeve M; Vinyl M. The Fun Boy Three is the debut album from Terry Hall, Neville Staple, and Lynval Golding—ex-Specials members—melding minimalist new wave, punk, and reggae rhythms. Top tracks like the haunting “The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Asylum),” the playful ska-infused cover “It Ain’t What You Do (It’s the Way That You Do It)” featuring Bananarama, and the quirky “The Telephone Always Rings” highlight their eerie vocal harmonies and spare percussion. Emerging from political and creative tensions in The Specials, the trio embraced freedom with a lean, rhythm-forward sound laced with social commentary—a stark departure that instantly marked them as bold, enigmatic voices in early ’80s British pop