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Fraser Lewry

The Damned's Captain Sensible once invited The BBC to his parents' house and played a song to his rabbit

Captain Sensible on The BBC's Sixty Minutes

In October 1983, The Damned's guitarist Captain Sensible was primed to release his second solo album, The Power of Love. 

The album was the follow-up to the previous year's Women and Captains First, a collection buoyed by the extraordinary success of Sensible's cover of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Happy Talk, an unlikely chart-topper in July 1982. So with the good Captain now an equally unlikely pop star, the BBC came to visit. 

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