The Light at the End of the Tunnel was a double compilation album by The Damned, released in 1987 as a retrospective collection. The same name was also given to a concurrently released video cassette and an approved band biography by Carol Clerk.
The package was marketed as a ‘greatest hits’ collection, but while it includes many of the band’s acknowledged standards, several of the songs were album tracks, while others were B-sides or other rarit...
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The Light at the End of the Tunnel was a double compilation album by The Damned, released in 1987 as a retrospective collection. The same name was also given to a concurrently released video cassette and an approved band biography by Carol Clerk.
The package was marketed as a ‘greatest hits’ collection, but while it includes many of the band’s acknowledged standards, several of the songs were album tracks, while others were B-sides or other rarities. MCA’s corporate muscle secured arguably the definitive Damned retrospective, as it is the only one to unite studio recordings from all of the studio albums the band had released between 1977 and 1986.
MCA issued the Anything album track “In Dulce Decorum” as a single to support the release. The Light at the End of the Tunnel charted for a week at #87 in the UK album charts, the band’s final chart entry to date.
“New Rose” was the band’s first single, released in 1976, with the cover of The Beatles’ “Help!” as the B-side. “Neat Neat Neat”...
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