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Ghost Town is een single uit 1981 van de Britse skaband The Specials. Het is geschreven door toetsenist/bandleider Jerry Dammers en stond in Engeland drie weken op de eerste plaats; in Nederland werd het een top 10 notering. Kenners spreken van de beste single op het 2 Tone-label van Dammers. Op de B-kant staan Why ? (geschreven door gitarist/zanger Lynval Golding nadat hij werd aangevallen door racisten) en Friday Night Saturday Morning (zanger Terry Hall over het uitgaansleven).

"Ghost Town" is a song by the British two-tone band the Specials, released on 12 June 1981. The song spent three weeks at number one and 11 weeks in total in the top 40 of the UK Singles Chart.

Evoking themes of urban decay, deindustrialisation, unemployment and violence in inner cities, the song is remembered for being a hit at the same time as riots were occurring in British cities. Internal tensions within the band were also coming to a head when the single was being recorded, resulting in the song being the last single recorded by the original seven members of the group before splitting up. However, the song was hailed by the contemporary UK music press as a major piece of popular social commentary, and all three of the major UK music magazines of the time awarded "Ghost Town" the accolade of "Single of the Year" for 1981. It was the 12th-best-selling single in the UK in 1981.