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Smashing It Up: A Decade of Chaos with The Damned
About this book
From rank outsiders to pop stardom a decade later, The Damned blazed an anarchic trail through punk rock to achieve massive chart success. A beacon for the Sex Pistols and The Clash to follow, they flung down the musical gauntlet in 1976 with Britain's first punk single 'New Rose'. Smashing It Up: A Decade of Chaos with The Damned is their definitive biography, drawing on new, in-depth research and interviews with associates and band members – including founders Brian James, Chris Millar (Rat Scabies), Raymond Burns (Captain Sensible) and David Lett (David Vanian). Conflict was rife: managers and labels came and went; bridges were burnt; opportunities squandered; and Kieron Tyler reveals how – and why – the wayward, wild and wilful Damned are the punk band that survived, and why they truly led the British Punk movement and outshone their contemporaries.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Prologue: About Ten Years Of Worry
- Chapter 1: Brian And Rat
- Chapter 2: Captain And David
- Chapter 3: The Excluded Gang
- Chapter 4: First Punx On Wax
- Album: Damned Damned Damned
- Chapter 5: Loud, Course, Rough And Unrelenting
- Chapter 6: Rat Abandons Sinking Ship (Temporarily)
- Album: Music for Pleasure
- Chapter 7: Farewell And Comeback
- Chapter 8: Boycott For Pope
- Album: Machine Gun Etiquette
- Chapter 9: Not Related To The Beatles In Any Way
- Album: The Black Album
- Chapter 10: Death Reports Unconfirmed
- Chapter 11: Captain Masquerades As Granny’s Favourite
- Album: Strawberries
- Chapter 12: There Were Cobwebs
- Chapter 13: Not A Fucking Pop Band
- Album: Phantasmagoria
- Chapter 14: The False Dawn Of ‘Eloise’
- Chapter 15: A Not So Final Curtain
- Epilogue: The Damned Brand
- Methodology And Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
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