Brian James, founding member of English punk-rock band The Damned, died Thursday (March 6). The guitarist was 70. The news ...

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James electrified the nascent UK punk-rock scene and fired its first salvo with the Damned's era-defining single, New Rose ...

Brian James, the founding member and guitarist of the influential British punk band The Damned and an architect of the British punk rock movement, died on March 6, 2025, in Seaford, East Sussex, Engla ...

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Brian James, the guitarist who was a founding member of iconic UK punk band The Damned, has died at the age of 70. His ...

Brian James, founding guitarist of the Damned, has died. No cause of death has been shared, though he passed peacefully with his family by his side. He was 70.

After a career that involved shaping punk music history, Brian James, the legendary punk rock guitarist and founder of The ...