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"In the 1970s when I was a kid, I was coming home from high school one day, and one of my buddies said, 'Hey, you know that punk rock stuff they're talking about?', and I went, 'yeah,' and he said, 'I've got a single, I've got a punk rock single, let's go and hear it.'

"So we went into his house [...] we went upstairs to his bedroom -- there was a couple of us -- and he put on a single. It was a double A-side, and 'Neat Neat Neat' was one of the songs and 'New Rose' was the other song -- and it was by a band called The Damned, who were about to get involved in -- about to start up -- a new type of music that we had never heard before, called punk rock. And I loved punk rock because it sounded like a fight [audience chuckles] and that made me feel happy.

[notices audience laughter]

"I had an interesting and tough childhood. I was like, 'Musical fighting? This is awesome!'"

-- Craig Ferguson, introducing The Damned on the CBS television program The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson, episode aired wee hours of 2008-10-31 (presumably recorded 2008-10-30)

( Craig Ferguson, on discovering punk rock )

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