THE DAMNED New Rose / Help 1976 UK Stiff Records ORIGINAL RARE early PUNK
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THE DAMNED NEW ROSE / HELP! 7inch
LABEL: STIFF Records CATALOG # BUY 6
ORIGINAL 1976 UK ISSUE, NOT A CURRENT ISSUE/REISSUE
PICTURES OF ACTUAL ITEM! PLEASE LOOK CLOSE TO GET BEST IDEA OF CONDITION!
ALL BIDDERS OUTSIDE USA, ANY ITEM SELLING FOR OVER $50 IT MUST BE SHIPPED REGISTERED MAIL. IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND THIS REQUEST PLEASE GET IN TOUCH BEFORE BIDDING
Artist Biography by Ned Raggett
With punk's history having entered a new millennium, the impact of the band initially judged "the least likely to" seems to grow ever more each day. The Ramones hold deserved pride of place for kick-starting the whole thing, while the Sex Pistols -- and to a lesser extent, the Clash -- helped take it to an even more notorious level, serving as role models for many young bands to this day. But arguably just as important and memorable were the Damned, London contemporaries of the Pistols and Clash that made their own mark from the start. Eschewing political posing, ill-fitting outside rhetoric, and simply doing the same thing over and over again, the group -- which lacked anything like a stable lineup -- took punk's simplicity and promise as a starting point and ran with it. The end result, at the group's finest: a series of inspired, ambitious albums and amazing live shows combining full-on rock energy, a stylish sense of performance, and humorous deadpan cool. Not necessarily what anyone would have thought when Ray Burns andChris Millar met in 1974, when both ended up working backstage at the Croydon Fairfield Hall.
Burns and Millar -- more famously known in later years as guitarist/singer Captain Sensible and manic drummer Rat Scabies -- kept in touch as both struggled in the stultifying mid-'70s London scene. Things picked up when Scabiestalked his way into a rehearsal with London S.S., the shifting lineup ground zero of U.K. punk that nearly everybody seemed to belong to at one point or another. There he met guitarist Brian James, while in a separate venture overseen by Malcolm McLaren, casting about for his own particular group to oversee, Scabies first met theatrical singer Dave Vanian, still working through his New York Dolls/Alice Cooper obsession. Vanian's own history allegedly included singing "I Love the Dead" and "Dead Babies" while working as a gravedigger, but whatever the background, he proved to be a perfect frontman. Scabies put Sensible in touch with Vanian and James and the Damned were born, with Sensible switching over to bass while James handled guitar and songwriting.
Though the Sex Pistols became the most publicized of all the original London punk groups, forming and playing before everyone else, the Damned actually ended up scoring most of the firsts on its own, notably the first U.K. punk single -- "New Rose" -- in 1976 and the first album, Damned Damned Damned, the following year. Produced by Nick Lowe, both were clipped, direct explosions of sheer energy, sometimes rude but never less than entertaining.
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