Muere Brian James, miembro fundador de The Damned y de otras bandas

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Brian James, founding member of The Damned and other bands dies

He has died Brian Jameswho was a founding member and guitarist of The Dammed, The Lords of the New Church and The rackteersamong other groups. He was seventy years old.

The cause of his death has not been announced, but he has died quietly surrounded by his family and for natural causes. In any case, there have been many British artists who have paid tribute to social networks. And Brian James was one of the great musicians of the United Kingdom who was involved in a long list of projects. It has mainly gone down to be a founding member and guitarist of The Damned with Dave Vanian, sensitive captain and rat scabies In 1976, but their musical adventures developed by many other groups

James was also one of the Post-Star and Dark Rock band founders The Lords of the New Church (Together with Stiv Bators), in addition to military in The Dripping Lips, The Brian James Gang and The Racketeers (Supergroup next to Duff McKagan by Guns N’Rose, Wayne Kramer from MC5, Stewart Copeland and Clem Burke). He was also in Tanz der Youthin the direct band of Iggy Pop or even had a solo career next to Stewart Copeland of The Police. Likewise, he was part of the original Damned meeting tour in 2022.

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