#THE DAMNED 1976

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FILE UNDER: RECORD ADS, UK PUNK, 70s PUNK, POSTER DESIGN, POSTER ART, STIFF RECORDS, NEW ROSE, ETC...

PIC(S) INFO: Resolution at 2156×2880 -- Spotlight on poster art for THE DAMNED's first 7 inch on Stiff Records, "New Rose" (c/w "Help," a cover by THE BEATLES, of all bands), released in the UK on October 22, 1976. Poster design by Chris Morton.

MINI-OVERVIEW: ""New Rose" was released on 22 October 1976 on the independent Stiff Records and was Stiff’s first hit, so successful that they had to partner a major label to distribute it. The job of producing the sleeve went to Chris Morton who was working part time as Art Director in Stiff's art department.

CHRIS MORTON: ”I left Art School, I was always influenced be the Situationists, I always loved music and tried to got freelance straight away. I took some designs to London and met United Artists and Andrew Lauder who liked what I was doing, I also had just had something published in "ZigZag" magazine by Pete Frame, I was working on something for Andrew and the George Hatcher Band and they were playing at the Roundhouse supporting the Doctor Feelgood and there I met Jake Riviera, who I had met briefly through Andrew Lauder where he used space in Andrews office, he said he was setting up a record label like the old independent ones in America where you sold records out of tieback of a truck,and he asked me to do some designs, which he liked, and that's how I got started."

-- IDENTITY OF PUNK, "The Damned, "New Rose" Buy 6 design by Chris Morton, published May, c. 2014

Sources: www.freedomhasnobounds.com/tag/east-side-club, Christie's, & https://identityofpunk.wordpress.com/2014/05/28/the-damned-new-rose-buy-6-design-by-chris-morton/