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The Damned: Fun! Fun! Fun?

Mark Paytress, MOJO, February 2013

Armed with "a license to cause mayhem", they created an "'orrible" speedball of a debut album. Before losing control…. Thirty five years on, all four founder members of the Damned relive the band's frenetic birth, their covert war with "comedy band" the Sex Pistols and their implosion over "a last piece of sausage."

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