The Captain’s log: acting Sensible.
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Young Raymond Burns decides against a dip in the ponds, Clapham Common.
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“I didn’t think I was great on guitar”: (from left) Sensible, Johnny Moped and Xerxes strike a pre-punk pose.
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“Quite a schizoid career”: Captain Sensible, The Damned’s best dressed bassist in town.
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“We went through with it”: (from left) Rat Scabies, Dave Vanian, Captain, Lu Edmonds,
Lol Coxhill (in shades), Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason and Brian James ponder Music For Pleasure.
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Smash it up: Marc Bolan at a Damned soundcheck during his UK tour for Dandy In The Underworld, 1977.
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The Damned, 1979, with new bassist Algy Ward (far right).
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Happy Talk! Captain promotes his hit 45 with Dolly Mixture, Rachel Bor (far left). “She was mad enough to get in the water with me.”
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It’s the trainspotter in him: Sensible has a train engine named after him, Hove, 2007.
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The Captain with (centre) Jimmy Page at A Night Of A Thousand Vampires, London Palladium, October 28, 2019.
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Making a meal of it: at the cover shoot for The Damned’s first album, 1977.