THE DAMNED Pay Homage to The Lovin’ Spoonful’s classic ‘Summer in The City’ ahead of brand-new covers album ‘Not Like Everybody Else’ out next week
Stream single ‘Summer In The City’ – https://damned.lnk.to/SummerInTheCityPR
With the final single from their upcoming covers-album, “Not Like Everybody Else,” Punk legends The Damned deliver a vibrant reinterpretation of The Lovin’ Spoonful’s classic “Summer in the City”.
With driving guitars and raw, energetic delivery, the cover heightens the song’s gritty urban edge and captures the heat and restless pulse of the city life through a distinctly Damned lens.
Recorded in a blistering five days of emotion and creative fire at Revolver Studio, Los Angeles, the album finds The Damned – Dave Vanian on vocals, Captain Sensible on guitar, Rat Scabies on drums, Paul Gray on bass and
joined by longtime keyboardist Monty Oxymoron – reconnecting with the raw energy that started it all. “Not Like Everybody Else” marks the first time in 40 years that Rat Scabies has returned to the studio with the band.
Every song on the album has been carefully curated by the band and is a personal and celebratory tribute to the band’s late guitarist Brian James and his influences, who passed away last year.
Kicking off with R. Dean Taylor’s “There’s A Ghost In My House” and moving through classics like Pink Floyd’s “See Emily Play” and The Animals’ “When I Was Young”, the album closes with a powerful farewell: “The Last Time” by The Rolling Stones, featuring Brian James himself, recorded at the last shows he played with The Damned, including the last performance at the O2 Academy in Birmingham and lovingly remixed for this release.
Set to coincide with The Damned’s 50th anniversary celebrations, “Not Like Everybody Else” is a heartfelt homage, and a testament to the enduring spirit of one of punk’s most pioneering bands. The band will also be
UK punk and Goth innovators announce a brand-new performing songs from the album exclusively live on BBC Radio 6.
50 years of The Damned also means 50 years of punk, with the explosion of 1976 hitting a half century. The band jump started the revolution, releasing the first UK punk single in “New Rose” and album “Damned, Damned, Damned”.
Brian James wrote that debut single and was lead songwriter on the album. He left the group after the release of their second album, “Music For Pleasure” in 1977.
The band have since earned an ever-expanding fan base fueled by legendary live shows, while their dark lyrics and Dave Vanian’s rich baritone vocals catapulted them to the forefront of the Goth-Rock genre
Pre-save the album ‘Not Like Everybody Else’ – https://damned.lnk.to/NotLikeEverybodyElsePR
