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Doctors were launched with much fanfare by Polydor in 1976. They
received plenty of press and TV coverage and played prestige venues
and festivals. Yet by the end of 1978 they had got nowhere still
playing low key venues like the Marquee.
They
had a punkyish name, a punkyish
look and punkyish pseudonyms and predated the Pistols.
However to bracket them in with punk might be stretching
it slightly too far and they fell between the old and new. Part of
their problem was convincing people they weren't a load of pseudo
twaddle.
Good single
Bulletin / Waiting ( Polydor 1977)
abounds with energy and worth a listen and they made 3 albums the pick
of which is Sons
Of Survival.
By its release Urban Blitz their guitarist and violin player had left
and not even a short lived join up with Dave Vanian as dual vocalist
or a name change to just The Doctors could save the band.
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