num_pages: 352
description: 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 Britains first punk single New Rose.Smashing It 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 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.
language: English
title: Smashing It Up: A Decade of Chaos with The Damned
publisher: Omnibus Press