Damned Damned Damned - 30th Anniversary Expanded Edition

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Release Date: 2007-02-26

Label: Castle Music

This 3 disc anniversary release comes in an eight panel digipak with clear trays. The left hand section is a half pocket containing a 16 page booklet.
Packaged in a slipcase type box with die cut thumb sections. Applied directly is a hype sticker within shrink-wrap.

-Disc one: the original 'Damned Damned Damned' album.
-Disc two: demos, live tracks, b-sides and Peel session tracks:
-Disc three: previously unreleased live at the 100 Club, 6/7/76.

[Tracks 1-3 on CD2 and the whole of CD3 are running too slow]

Tracks 1-1 to 1-6 and 1-8 to 1-12 were recorded in ten days, followed by completion of the mix and the master tape on January 15th, 1977
Tracks 1-7 and 2-4 were recorded at Pathway Studios in a two-day session that was mixed and committed to master tape on 20th September 1976
Tracks 2-1 to 2-3 recorded in a basement studio run by future Boys' member Matt Dangerfield in the basement of 47a Warrington Crescent:according to the book "The Roxy. Our Story" (2016) by Andrew Czezowski & Susan Carrington, the demo was recorded on 23 July 1976; a cassette was sent on 25 July to Phonogram Records and Virgin, Phonogram rejected the tape in a letter dated 27 July 1976.
Tracks 2-5 to 2-9 recorded for the BBC 30/11/76 at Maida Vale 4; broadcast 10/12/76.
Tracks 2-11 to 2-14 recorded for the BBC 5/5/77 at Maida Vale 4; broadcast 16/5/77.
Tracks 2-15 to 2-24 recorded for the BBC at the Victoria Palace, 19/5/77; broadcast 21/5/77.
Tracks 2-25 and 2-26 recorded at North London's Roundhouse Studios. The session was completed on May 19th, 1977
Tracks 3-1 to 3-12 recorded at their live debut at Oxford Street's 100 Club on July 6th in a Sex Pistols support slot. Recorded on a primitive Sony cassette recorder, hidden in a sports bag, onto a cheap Scotch 120 tape

Tracks 1-7 and 2-4 were released as Stiff BUY 6 on 25th October 1976
Tracks 1-1 to 1-12 issued on February 18th, 1977
Tracks 1-1, 1-5 and 2-10 were issued as Stiff BUY 10 on February 28th, 1977
Tracks 2-25 and 2-26 released on a freebie Stiff single given out starting on July 3rd, 1977

Tracks 1-1 to 1-11, 2-10, 2-25 Rock Music Co Ltd ℗ 1977
Track 1-12 Warner Chappell North America ℗ 1977
Tracks 2-1 to 2-3, 2-5 to 2-9, 2-12 to 2-14, 2-16 to 2-20, 2-22 to 2-24, 2-26 Rock Music Co Ltd ℗ 2005
Track 2-4 Sony/ATV Music Publishing (UK) Ltd P 1976
Track 2-15 Warner Chappell North America ℗ 2005
Track 2-21 Sony/ATV Music Publishing (UK) Ltd ℗ 2005
Tracks 3-1 to 3-3, 3-5, 3-7, 3-8, 3-10 to 3-12 Rock Music Co Ltd ℗ 2007
Track 3-4 Sony/ATV Music Publishing (UK) Ltd P 2007
Track 3-6 Warner Chappell North America
Track 3-9 Fabulous Music Ltd ℗ 2007

Booklet design & artwork for Love melody
Sound restoration & digital remastering for Masterpiece

Discs:
℗ 2007 The copyright in these sound recordings is owned by The Damned under exclusive license to Sanctuary Records Group Ltd.
© 2007 Sanctuary Records Group Ltd.
Made in the EU

Booklet:
The copyright in these sound recordings is owned by The Damned, under exclusive license to Sanctuary Records Group Ltd, except Disc 2 tracks 5-9, 11-24, released by arrangement with BBC Worldwide
℗ 2007 The copyright in this compilation is owned by Sanctuary Records Group Ltd.
© 2007 Sanctuary Records Group Ltd.

Back cover:
℗2007 Sanctuary Records Group Ltd.
©2007 Sanctuary Records Group Ltd.
Made in the EU

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