The Damned Hurrah New York 25th June 1979 - RIP Algy Ward

 

Today we learned of the loss of another musician that had a hand in scoring the soundtrack of our lives. Algy Ward, formerly of The Damned has died. Although his tenure in the band was relatively short lived, he played on 'Machine Gun Etiquette', arguably the band's greatest contribution to vinyl. Some will argue that 'Damned Damned Damned' or 'Strawberries' is top of the pile, and that's fine, but for me The Damned of '79 vintage were the band at their most raucous and outrageous and they had the songs to match.

Here is an example of the 'anarchy, chaos and destruction' that the band wrought in 1979!

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Artwork: https://we.tl/t-pBBLQwjJSI

01. Jet Boy Jet Girl

02. Teenage Dream

03. Stretcher Case Baby

04. Ballroom Blitz

05. Talk

06. Second Time Around

07. Born To Kill

08. Talk

09. Looking At You

10. Melody Lee

11. Talk

12. New Rose

13. Suicide

14. Talk

15. Problem Child

16. Help

17. Stab Your Back

18. Love Song

19. Neat Neat Neat

20. Talk And Tuning

21. Pretty Vacant