{"id":3889,"date":"2019-02-18T05:00:44","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T05:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=3889"},"modified":"2019-02-17T23:48:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T23:48:39","slug":"18th-feb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=3889","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Brian James & other news"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Happy Birthday Brian James the guy who kickstarted punk in London –\u00a0 Hell he Invented UK Punk for God’s sake even The Captain says as much. Brian was the force behind The Damned who were the first to do this first to do that – The FIRST! remember that.<\/p>\n

It didn’t end there for Brian Who when he left The Damned (the band he started) he went on to play for Iggy Pop then put together his own supergroup – The Lords Of The New Church. Before heading out under his own name.<\/p>\n

Born in In Hammersmith in 1955.\u00a0 Brian Robertson as he was christened first came to prominence when he picked up the guitar alongside fellow punk icons Mick Jones (the Clash) and Brady (Hollywood\u00a0Brats) under the banner SS London, he then formed The Damned and the rest, as they say, is history.\u00a0 I don’t think Brian or The Damned ever got the props they truly deserved and history has ushered The Pistols and The Clash to the top of the pile yet it was The Damned led by Brian that reached all the firsts and has remained punk to the core until this day where he still writes\u00a0and occasionally plays.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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If you don’t know Brians style then you’ve not really heard real punk rock from the first chords of ‘New Rose’ to his unique style on ‘Grand Cru’ or ‘The Guitar That Dripped Blood’ Brian has always done things on his own terms and stayed true to himself.\u00a0 He has an impeccable\u00a0CV and a list of albums he’s played on that can go toe to toe with any of his peers no question about it.<\/p>\n

Buy Brian James: Here<\/a><\/p>\n