"People envision some golden day of punk, where everyone in London was really successful, but it was absolutely scuzzy," Captain Sensible, the guitarist for the Damned, says with a laugh. "There was no plan for world domination, despite what [Sex Pistols manager] Malcom McLaren said."
"In the beginning, the punk scene was so full of promise," offers the band's vampiric-looking frontman,
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: The Damned Talk 40 Years of Shapeshifting Punk