In the summer of 2017, “Neat Neat Neat” was prominently featured in the action film Baby Driver and its soundtrack . On 11 September 2017, the band announced that Stu West was leaving the band and that former bassist Paul Gray would be returning for the new studio album. Evil…
Read More
In 2017, John Cale and Maureen Tucker reunited to perform ” I’m Waiting for the Man ” at the Grammy Salute to Music Legends concert.
In May 2016, the band played a 40th anniversary show at the Royal Albert Hall .
After the release of the film on 12 September 2015, former bassist Bryn Merrick, who had played on Phantasmagoria (1985) and Anything (1986), died of throat cancer.
Guitar player Rolando Carpio, who died in early 2005, had made a point of not telling his children about his musical past until they discovered the fact by themselves. Drummer Pancho Guevara died in May 2015, in Lima.
the live box set The Complete Matrix Tapes , comprising remixed and remastered versions of a series of professionally recorded 1969 performances, also appeared in 2015.
In 2015, the Damned were featured in a documentary by director Wes Orshoski titled The Damned: Don’t You Wish That We Were Dead . The documentary charts the history of the band against a backdrop of archival footage, new interviews and tour footage from 2011 to 2014.
On October 27, 2013, Lou Reed died at his home in Southampton, New York, aged 71. He had undergone a liver transplant earlier in the year. John Cale responded to Reed’s passing by saying, “The world has lost a fine songwriter and poet. … I’ve lost my ‘school-yard buddy ‘…
Read More
During a rare performance by The Deviants at The Borderline in Central London on 27 July 2013, Farren collapsed on stage. He died later in hospital.
Read was killed in a motorcycle accident in June 2013 in Thailand.