New Rose

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“New Rose”
Single by The Damned
from the album Damned Damned Damned
A-side "New Rose"
B-side "Help!"
Released October 22, 1976
Format 7" single
Recorded Pathway Studios, London, 20 September 1976
Genre Punk rock
Length 02:46
Label Stiff
Writer(s) Brian James
Producer Nick Lowe
The Damned singles chronology
"New Rose"
(1976)		 "Neat Neat Neat"
(1977)

"New Rose" was the first single by British punk rock group The Damned, released on October 22, 1976. It was the first single by a British punk group,[1] and was released in the Netherlands, Germany, and France in 1977.

Written by guitarist Brian James, "New Rose" was issued on the Stiff Records label. The B-side was a cover of The Beatles' hit "Help!", performed about twice as fast as The Beatles's original version. Both songs have since become staples of The Damned's live shows, and appear on various compilations, and "New Rose" was included on the group's full-length debut Damned Damned Damned.

The single was reissued in Stiff's mail order Damned 4 Pack mail-order set. A CD version was issued in the Stiff Singles 1976-1977 boxed set by Castle Music in 2003.

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[edit] Cover versions

Guns N' Roses covered the track on their 1993 covers album "The Spaghetti Incident?"

Seminal Portland punk icons Poison Idea covered the track on their 1992 covers album "Pajama Party"

Japanese guitarist/singer Hide from X Japan covered the song on his solo tour, Hide Your Psychommunity tour 1994.[citation needed]

Other Japanese bands such as Kuroyume and J from Luna Sea also covered this song at concerts.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "New Rose" (James) - 2:46
  2. "Help!" (Lennon, McCartney) - 1:43

[edit] Production credits

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Damned Damned Damned" by Ned Raggett, from Allmusic.com; URL accessed March 10, 2007
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