Fifty years on from their explosive debut single “New Rose”, THE DAMNED have evolved from punk pioneers to national treasures. But as a new album pays tribute to Brian James, their fallen co-founder, bandmates Dave Vanian, Captain Sensible and Rat Scabies – along with sundry eyewitnesses and ne’erdo-wells – recall the volatile beginnings, creative vision and incorrigible spirit of The Damned’s groundbreaking first act. “It was CID, villains and the Captain in a nurse’s outfit,” hears Peter Watts

Black And Blue UMC/POLYDOR

Mike Patton and the Avett Brothers join forces to create a work of immense beauty.

74-75: Night Life / Fighting UMR

From The Bottom Of An Old Grandfather Clock (reissue, 2004) DEAD OCEANS

Have you come to dance... or have you come to die?” leers Simon Le Bon at the start of Duran Duran’s first Halloween extravaganza on home turf. Their idea to own Halloween in music began in Las Vegas,