The Black Album was the fourth album by The Damned, and the first to feature Paul Gray on bass guitar.
It was released in October 1980 on Chiswick as a double album, with "Curtain Call" filling the whole of side three, and a selection of live tracks recorded at Shepperton Studios for Damned fan club members on side four.
The Damned's Chiswick back catalogue was acquired by Big Beat in 1981, and The Black Album was reissued in August 1982 as a sin...
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The Black Album was the fourth album by The Damned, and the first to feature Paul Gray on bass guitar.
It was released in October 1980 on Chiswick as a double album, with "Curtain Call" filling the whole of side three, and a selection of live tracks recorded at Shepperton Studios for Damned fan club members on side four.
The Damned's Chiswick back catalogue was acquired by Big Beat in 1981, and The Black Album was reissued in August 1982 as a single album that omitted "Curtain Call" and the live tracks.
The artwork for the reissue parodied the sleeve of The Beatles' White Album, rendered in black with no details other than the group's name embossed in capitals. The live tracks were reissued in their own right as Live Shepperton 1980 with four extra tracks.
The first subsequent reissue on CD reinstated "Curtain Call" and the original artwork, and the 2005 double-CD reissue also reinstated the live tracks.
All songs written by Rat Scabies/Captain Sensible/Paul Gray/Dave Vanian except *...
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