In Dulce Decorum

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"In Dulce Decorum"
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Single by the Damned
from the album Anything
B-side "Psychomania"
Released16 November 1987 (1987-11-16)
Recorded Denmark, 1986
Genre Gothic rock
Length4:47
Label MCA
GRIM 8
Songwriters
Producer Jon Kelly
The Damned singles chronology
"Alone Again Or"
(1987)		"In Dulce Decorum"
(1987)		"Fun Factory"
(1991)

"In Dulce Decorum" is a song by the English rock band the Damned, released on 16 November 1987 by MCA Records.

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The song was originally recorded for the Anything album, but was issued as a single to promote MCA's Damned retrospective Light at the End of the Tunnel . MCA also issued the single in Germany.

The single, the Damned's last to break into the UK charts, hit No. 72. It was featured in the Miami Vice third-season episode "Walk Alone", and an instrumental version was included in the Miami Vice II soundtrack.

The track was inspired by Wilfred Owen's poem Dulce et Decorum est , and begins with an excerpt from a speech by Winston Churchill to the House of Commons as the Battle of Britain began on 18 June 1940: Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour". [1]

Track listing

7" single:

  1. "In Dulce Decorum" (Jugg, Scabies, Vanian, Merrick) – 4:47
  2. "Psychomania" (Jugg, Scabies, Vanian, Merrick) – 4:03

12" single:

  1. "In Dulce Decorum" (Extended Version) (Jugg, Scabies, Vanian, Merrick) – 5:58
  2. "Psychomania" (Jugg, Scabies, Vanian, Merrick) – 4:03
  3. "In Dulce Decorum" (Dub) (Jugg, Scabies, Vanian, Merrick) – 4:41

Production credits

References

  1. ↑ "The New Earth Works : Essay on Churchill's 'We Shall Fight on the Beaches' speech (For EPGY English Course): December 2011". Archived from the original on 27 August 2014. Retrieved 26 August 2014.


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