Brian James, guitarist and founder of the famous British punk group The Damned, died at the age of 70. His disappearance was announced by the artist’s relatives in his official Facebook account, on Thursday, March 6 at night.
“Goodbye to one of the true pioneers of music, a guitarist, a constantly creative composer and gentleman,” their relatives said.
Collaboration with Iggy Pop
With bassist Ray Burns, the captain of sensitive aka, singer Dave Vanian and the scabies of the rats drummer, Brian James had founded the Group The Damned, Major Trio of the first punk wave in the United Kingdom. Your tube New rosereleased in 1977, it is considered the first British Punk single to see daylight, long before the arrival of sex guns or the clash.
Despite The Damned, Brian James will leave the group after his second album, Music for pleasureIn 1978, to find another Juvenile Musical Training Tanz Der before joining the musicians of the artist Iggy Pop on his tour.
In the early 1980s, Brian James associated with the Steve Bators of American dead children to find a new group The Lords of the New Church, famous for their successes. Russian roulette AND Dance with me.
In 2022, Brian James had approached his three acolytes of the Damned to make a meeting tour in the United Kingdom. On Facebook, the bassist of the Ray Burns group paid tribute to his friend, “The Master of the Riff”. “This final act, which happens to us all, is terrible, but I prefer to celebrate life … and what life has had Brian James,” he wrote.
Source: BFM TV
