New Rose - the Damned
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6olrtHmM3kI Next up, Brian James, lead guitarist from the Damned, who died March 6th, 2025. One of the bands I always thought I saw at the Squat in Manchester was the Damned, but I can't find any evidence that they ever played there, so maybe I saw them somewhere else. Or maybe I just imagined it. Certainly their first single "New Rose" is the epitome of everything that was played in the Squat from 1976-78. It is generally regarded as the first
Willow's Song - Magnet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2kpUdfULuQ When I was eighteen, the first "X" film I legally saw in a cinema was Nicholas Roeg's terrifying "Don't Look Now". In those days - 1973 in this case - going to the cinema meant watching a whole programme as well as the "feature film" usually comprising a "newsreel", and current affairs magazine feature (usually "Look at Life" and a "support" movie, also known as a "B" movie. Usually when you went to the cinema you didn't even know
