The legendary guitarist of The Damned Brian James He has died at the age of 70. A cause of death has not been confirmed at this time.
“It is very sad to announce the death of one of the true pioneers of music, guitarist, composer and true lord, Brian James,” a statement through his Facebook Account announced on Thursday, March 6.
The statement revealed that he “passed peacefully” with the woman Minna, son Charlie and Nora Alicia next to her on Thursday.
“Excessionally creative and a tour of musical strength, during a career that spanned more than six decades … Brian worked with a great Iggy pop into Wayne Kramer, Stewart COPELAND into Cheetah Chrome“The statement is read.
Said a spokesman for James East Action record label Sky News On Friday, March 7, “I can confirm that Brian died peacefully with his present family yesterday.”
James was a founding member and principal composer of the British punk group The Damned, the 1976 single, “New Rose”, broke the ground for the growing scene in the United Kingdom. The Damned was in its greatest success in 1986 when its cover of Paul RyanThe song “Eloise” struck the number 3 of the British sister graph.
The damn, along with the Sexual guns And the crash was one of the first waves of British bands to punk a commercially viable musical genre in the late 1970’s. James played with the group for his first two studio albums before leaving 1977 after launching. Music for pleasure.
James later touched on Iggy Pop’s tour and joined with the dead boys vocalist STIV BATORSSham 69 Bassist Dave Market and the ex-barcudas battery Nick Turner To form the Supergroup The Lords of the New Church for three studio albums in the 1980s, as well as Meetion Record Pass In 2003. Throughout his 51 -year career, James also worked with Tanz der Youth, The Dipping Lips and The Racketeers.
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Met with the 70’s Damned’s line in 2022 for various concerts. The Damned bassist, and then the guitarist, Captain paid tribute to the life and legacy of James by a statement published in his Instagram account.
“The Riffmeister, Brian has gone, that final act that happens to us all, because most is a sad and miserable matter, but although it is really horrible, our companion has been taken, I prefer to celebrate life … and what Brian James had,” he wrote.
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The musician continued: “Looking back I have to say what was an absolute gentleman Brian … despite having to occasionally endure some quite horrifying behavior, really, he never lost it with me, and whenever we were in the following decades, we would make a drink and a good laugh.”
“I mentioned Brian you liked a drink? Blimey, the guy even moved to the Bordeaux region of France to be closer to the wine that he loved so much, “the sensitive captain joked. Let us be poignant again, but also in the way we managed to recreate our Sound Punk from Garage ’76 from the first agreement of rehearsals. We were all ready to go back … but that will never happen, sadly. “”
The sensitive captain added that the current incarnation of the damn: with a sensitive guitarist, vocalist David Vaniankeyboardist Monty Oxymoronbassist Paul Gray And battery Scabies of rat – He dedicated his Friday to Cinema Joia to São Paulo, Brazil to James because “without him (he) the damn would never have happened.”