“Damaged Goods” was the 1978 debut single from Leeds-based post-punk innovators Gang Of Four. The song offers a critique of everyday life— characterizing the “Damaged Goods” of a breakup in the terms of a financial transaction. This song featured the original Gang—Jon King on lead vocals, Andy Gill on guitar and vocals, Hugo Burnham on drums, and Dave Allen on bass. Jon King told Clash Magazine: “Saturday afternoons, we wandered, walleyed, through the sun-bright aisles of Morrison’s supermarket in Leeds, looking for a 2-4-1 bargains and generic baked beans. The hopeless in-store slo… read more
“Damaged Goods” was the 1978 debut single from Leeds-based post-punk innovators Gang Of Four. The song offers a critique of everyday life— characteri… read more
“Damaged Goods” was the 1978 debut single from Leeds-based post-punk innovators Gang Of Four. The song offers a critique of everyday life— characterizing the “Damaged Goods” of a breakup… read more
Gang of Four are a British post-punk group from Leeds, England. Original personnel were singer Jon King, guitarist Andy Gill, bass guitarist Dave Allen and drummer Hugo Burnham. They were fully active from 1977 to 1984, and then re-emerged twice in the 1990s with King and Gill. In 2005, the original lineup reunited. The group had a single in the British Top 60 with "At Home He's A Tourist" in 1979, which was blacklisted by Top Of The Pops for its use of the relatively innocuous term "rubbers". Storming, Doc Marten-booted and fueled by a heady cocktail of Gra… read more
Gang of Four are a British post-punk group from Leeds, England. Original personnel were singer Jon King, guitarist Andy Gill, bass guitarist Dave Allen and drummer Hugo Burnham. They were fully active from 1977 to 1984, and then re-eme… read more