Brian James, the founding guitarist of the visual and influential villain band in the United Kingdom. It was 70.
James’s death was confirmed on March 6 Official Facebook pageAlthough there is no reason. “It is very sad to announce the death of one of the real music pioneers, the guitarist, the author of the songs, and the real man, Brian James,” read the statement.
The later has an exceptionally important place in the history of rock music, where “New Rose” was launched, and it can be said that the first single song ever in the United Kingdom, in 1976. The Latta was also the first band of its scene, which released a studio album (1977 “cursed cursed”) and to trade in the United States.
James, born in London, began his musical career in the Proto-Punk London SS, which included future members of Clash and Generation X. He soon met another local band, Master of the Backfide, which was characterized by future women Chrissie Hynde, singer Dave Vanian, and guitar Captain Conssably Scabies. Minus Hynde, James formed the Latin with the other three members in 1976.
Five weeks before sex pistols, “Chaos in the United Kingdom”, which is the most famous song early in the villain, The Damned “New Rose”. The fast song and the body formulated by James and its stripped of the British rock for the era, expelled it with a black eyeliner and lipstick, and declared a new voice and a sub -culture of the world.
Crowsd fans at the forefront of the theater watch the performance of the later with a new assortment including Dave Vanien, the left, and Brian James.
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Soon the cursed are accompanied by pistols on a short tour. After playing the United States, the damned from both the extremist and Gothic sub-cultures in southern California-were gangs like Black Flag inspired by the minimum rhythm, while Proto halls such as Christian death and 45 graves were captured through their infectious fish.
James was the main author of the songs in the first two years, but after 1977, The Damned was briefly separated and reshaped without James. He continued a tour as a member of the IGGY POP LIVE, and registered individual materials with Stewart Kobland from the police on drums, and participated in the founding of the new church’s roses with Stiv Bators. The original assortment of damaged it was from time to time for live shows, the first in 1988 and more recently in 2022.
“He is always looking for new challenges and in order to work with different musicians,” his family statement read, that James was “constantly creative and a musical tour, over a profession that spanned more than six decades.”
James survived his wife, Mina, his son, Charlie, and his daughter, Alicia.
