In March 2013 the band released Change Becomes Us , their 13th studio album, which was very well received. Their fourteenth album, eponymously titled Wire , was released in April 2015. The following year, in April 2016, the band’s 15th studio album, entitled Nocturnal Koreans , was released on their…
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After their debut concert on 1 March 1977 at the Alexandria Club in Newport , Wales (which lasted only ten minutes), the group played London pubs and punk clubs touring as backing band and support act for Cherry Vanilla and for Wayne County & the Electric Chairs .
The Damned released their debut studio album, Damned Damned Damned , on 18 February 1977. Produced by Nick Lowe , it was the first studio album released by a British punk band and included a new single, ” Neat Neat Neat “. The band toured to promote the album, in…
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recorded at Pathway Studios in Islington , North London on 12 February 1977
By January 1977, punk had become a major media phenomenon in the UK; according to New Musical Express (NME): “1977 is the year of The Clash”. On 25 January, the band signed to CBS Records for £100,000, a remarkable amount for a band who had played about thirty gigs and…
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The musicians Jürgen Dobroszcsyk, Raymond Ebert, Gerrit Meijer, and Knut Schaller met on February 25, 1977, at a concert of The Vibrators at Berlin’s Kant-Kino. They started a band together on March 10, 1977. In 1977, PVC quickly became popular in Berlin; on August 20, 1977, they were included on…
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Their next two albums, Leave Home and Rocket to Russia , were both released in 1977
Chrome said of the tour “(w)ith the 40th anniversary of the Dead Boys on the horizon and a solid band that could interpret and deliver the performance and sound needed to maintain the authenticity of the Dead Boys, I reached out to Johnny Blitz about an anniversary tour and he…
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The band also drew on influences from reggae to jazz to progressive and pub rock . While maintaining the main band, Police members continued to moonlight within the art rock scene. In late 1977 and early 1978, Sting and Summers recorded and performed as part of an ensemble led by…
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The band formed in early 1977, with a line-up of Blair Hamilton ( vocals ), Colin “Getty” Getgood ( lead guitar ) and the three Cowan brothers Greg ( bass ), Colin (drums) and Martin (rhythm guitar). According to Greg Cowan, their name derived from the fact that they were…
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