Wait for the Blackout

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"Wait for the Blackout"

Single by The Damned
From the album The Black Album
B-side	"Jet Boy Jet Girl"
Released	6 May 1982
Format	7" single
Recorded	1980
Genre	Rock
Length	3:57
Label	Big Beat NS 77
Producer	The Damned

Wait for the Blackout was a single by The Damned.

Initially, Chiswick issued "Wait for the Blackout" instead of "The History of the World Part 1" as a single to promote The Black Album in Spain, with "Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde" as the B-side.

In 1982, their Big Beat budget imprint reissued the track as a single in the UK, despite The Damned having left the label two years previously. The B-side was provided by Damned guitarist Captain Sensible's spin-off project, Captain Sensible and the Softies, in the form of "Jet Boy Jet Girl". This was allegedly an English-language version of Plastic Bertrand's "Ça Plane Pour Moi", but while the tune is the same, it would seem Sensible, ever the joker, basically made up the lyric, tongue firmly in cheek. Interestingly, ex-Damned bass player Algy Ward has a writing credit on the track...