the misfits - 'london dungeon'
No. 71: ‘London Dungeon’ – The Misfits (1981)
Listen to ‘London Dungeon’ by The Misfits
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‘London Dungeon’ – The Misfits (1981)
Iconic US punks’ cult ode to a night spent in London’s cells‘During our early years we tried to do an English tour with The Damned. When we completed our first three shows we walked off the tour after not being paid. We went to London and after that I went to Canterbury with Sid Vicious’s mom Anne. Our singer Glenn Danzig and guitarist Bobby Steele went to see The Jam at The Rainbow.
A bunch of skinheads started a fight with Glenn who turned to watch Bobby run down the block! To protect himself, Glenn pulled a piece of glass from the Rainbow’s broken window and got arrested. In Brixton jail, he put the lyrics together for “London Dungeon”.
We worked on the song to audition for The Clash’s second world tour. When our drummer Joey Image fled to the USA for drugs, we aborted that tour and left our clean-faced rotting corpses in your London Dungeon.’ Jerry Only, The Misfits
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