Rat Scabies says The Damned earned some of their biggest royalty payments after Guns N’ Roses covered ‘New Rose’ and The Offspring recorded ‘Smash It Up’.

The nearest The Damned came to “making it big” was during the mid-Eighties, when lead singer Dave Vanian’s gothic sensibilities meshed with a crisp music hall poppiness, on the album Phantasmagoria.

Rat Scabies reveals how The Damned's Not Like Everybody Else became an emotional tribute to Brian James, including his final performance on The Last Time.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fifty years after helping ignite the UK punk explosion, The Damned are still doing what they’ve always done best: taking the ...

The Damned have announced a 50th anniversary concert at London’s OVO Arena Wembley, admitting they ‘never thought [they’d] make it this far’. Taking place on April 11, 2026, the show will see the band ...

As mentioned, The Damned welcomed drummer Rat Scabies back into the fold late last year, which reunites the early-’80s lineup of the punk icons who, along with Dave Vanian, Captain Sensible, and Paul ...

The Damned are the greatest punk rock band of all-time, so logic would also have it, that they are also the greatest rock and roll band of all time. I write this because punk rock is the only genre of ...