Black And Blue UMC/POLYDOR

Early Steps RHINO/WARNER BROS.

Rat City Rockers TEE PEE

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

My Focus – Live Under The Rainbow

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