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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 2 - The Untold Story

New York Dolls frontman David Johansen dies aged 75

As part of the US band, Johansen played a part in creating punk rock, and influenced bands including The Smiths, the Sex Pistols and The Damned.

Evening Standard

Never mind the back pain: how rock’s drummers cope with furious sets in their 70s

From Rat Scabies of the Damned to Paul Cook of the Sex Pistols, we ask rock and punk’s greatest drummers how they deal with long nights of fast songs – and uncover a story of arthritis, cardio and turmeric oil

The Guardian - UK

‘Two of the best songwriters Australia has ever produced’: punk pioneers the Saints return

Isolated in Brisbane, the Saints released a punk single before the Damned, Sex Pistols and the Clash. As they reform after their singer’s death, they recall their journey from school detention to Top of the Pops

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"I think that’s what makes the Pistols' album different from The Clash or The Damned – we didn’t just go in and crash, bang, wallop”: Steve Jones breaks down the Sex Pistols' seminal statement

"I played bass on most of Never Mind The Bollocks"

MusicRadar

"We didn't have a clue what we were doing, but the first playback was one of those moments you never forget": How The Damned took four days and lots of cider to kickstart a revolution

The Sex Pistols may have got all the headlines and The Clash the critical acclaim, but The Damned trumped them all

Louder

10 brilliant, bizarre and utterly WTF Lemmy collaborations

From Slash and Dave Grohl to glamour models and 80s girl groups, Lemmy worked with ’em all

Metal Hammer

"Five years ago we imagined a world of our own. In Bludfest we are going to build one." Yungblud just announced his own festival taking place in Milton Keynes in August - and Lil Yachty, Soft Play and The Damned are amongst the bands playing

Yungblud has his own festival now, and it's happening this summer!

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“It’s all just great rock and roll, that’s the only way to describe it.” There’s a Lemmy Kilmister solo album featuring Dave Grohl out there somewhere, and we desperately need to hear it

Motörhead leader Lemmy Kilmister recorded a solo album with Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl, The Damned, Joan Jett and more during his final years. Almost a decade after his death, where on earth is it?!

Metal Hammer

"If we make this record and it sells, then if nothing else some of our heroes can get some royalties": The stories of the songs that powered Guns N' Roses' strangest and most understood album

Thirty years ago, Guns N’ Roses released The Spaghetti Incident?, an album of covers, and brought a load of mostly obscure, mostly punk-rock tracks to a wider audience

Metal Hammer

24 things to get excited about in 2024

As with all years, 2023 had plenty of great, memorable rock moments. With a new year now upon us, here’s what we’re vibed up for that’s coming along in the next 12 months

Louder

"Be careful what you wish for!" Rat Scabies returns to The Damned, as the punk legends announce UK tour with their early '80s line-up

Rat Scabies is back in The Damned alongside Dave Vanian, Captain Sensible and Paul Gray, reuniting the line-up who last played together in 1989

Louder

"Ultimately, they weren’t Rick Wakeman" - Clem Burke and Glen Matlock on the outsider appeal of the original punk bands

Ahead of their gig with Iggy Pop at the Dog Day Afternoon festival in London, Blondie’s Clem Burke and former Sex Pistol Glen Matlock talk punk, punk and more punk

Louder

How The Damned made Darkadelic, their surprise contender for Album Of The Year

Re-made and remodelled, with acclaimed album Darkadelic echoing glorious moments from their post-punk past, The Damned head into the future with much to offer

Louder

Algy Ward, bassist with The Saints and The Damned and founder of Tank, dies aged 63

The UK bass player played a role in several acclaimed punk and metal bands, yet refused to be pigeonholed by either camp

Guitar World

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The Damned's Captain Sensible once invited The BBC to his parents' house and played a song to his rabbit

In which Captain Sensible blames alcohol for his choice of stage name, debuts his new song Rabbit Hutch Blues, and speaks with missionary zeal on the subject of nudity

Louder

The Damned continue to flourish as their punk peers wither and fade

Darkadelic is a loud'n'lively twelfth album from punk’s most adaptable survivors The Damned

Louder

Coke! Ghosts! Chaos! Inside the recording of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath: only in the new issue of Classic Rock

Inside: Black Sabbath, George Harrison, Alice Cooper, Grand Funk Railroad, The Damned, Crown Lands, Sparks, Peter Frampton and much more

Louder

Classic Rock Tracks Of The Week: new music from Foo Fighters, Skindred and more

Music your ears will thank you for, from Black Spiders, Uriah Heep, John Mellencamp, The Damned and more

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Bristol Post

Glastonbury 2023 confirms Field of Avalon line-up with Mel C, The Damned and Will Young

More acts have been announced to play Worthy Farm in June

Louder

The story of The Stranglers' controversial No More Heroes album: "We got away with murder"

Hugh Cornwell tells the story of the Stranglers' summer-of-punk-classic second album No More Heroes: "We definitely couldn’t get away with that now"

Tribune News Service

Q&A: Nick Lowe, joined by Los Straitjackets, goes from pub to punk to surf

PITTSBURGH — Among the more unlikely pairings to emerge in the last decade is the meeting of a British power-pop icon with a masked American surf-rock band.

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