Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's been an emotional year for The Damned. The classic punk band behind "New Rose," "Smash It Up" and "Neat Neat Neat" have spent ...

As the well-known story goes, Malcolm McLaren — the eccentric manager of influential U.K. punk band the Sex Pistols — offered future Pistols frontman John Lydon an audition for the group he was ...

Brian James, founding guitarist and songwriter of seminal British punk group The Damned who later played with Stiv Bators in The Lords of the New Church, died Thursday. He was 70. His family confirmed ...

Rat Scabies reflects on 50 years of The Damned, memories of Brian James, the birth of punk rock in London, and the band’s continuing connection with Australian audiences.

Rat Scabies reveals how The Damned's Not Like Everybody Else became an emotional tribute to Brian James, including his final performance on The Last Time.

The Damned are the greatest punk rock band of all-time, so logic would also have it, that they are also the greatest rock and roll band of all time. I write this because punk rock is the only genre of ...

It’s been a hell of a ride! Pioneering punk band the Damned, which will play at Greenpoint’s Warsaw club on May 5, are part of the “Class of ’77,” a group of British punk bands that exploded that year ...

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It's been an emotional year for The Damned. The classic punk band behind "New Rose," "Smash It Up" and "Neat Neat Neat" have spent most of 2025 on the road, playing to adoring fans across the world: ...

Brian James, founding guitarist and early principal songwriter for UK punk pioneers the Damned, has died. The news was shared in a statement on James’ official Facebook page, though a cause of death ...