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My friend Sean Rockoff sent me a link to a recent performance by The Damned on the Craig Ferguson show that I hadn't seen.
He remarked on lead singer Dave Vanian, who once "looked like what all the current crop of vampire-kiddies don't even know they're aspiring to -- an undead Elvis. The coolest thing to ever walk the earth, again."
And if you don't know what that look was, here's The Damned lip-syncing to their classic track "Video Nasty" on The Young Ones in 1984:
Sean remarked that Vanian is now a dead ringer for classic Hollywood character actor Lionel Atwill.
I have to say, if you're getting too old to be a young, cool, undead-Elvis punker, and want to keep your Gothic-horror image going, I'm not sure you could do better than the path Dave Vanian's decided to take. Here's the still-great Damned from a few months ago:
