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The Damage Done - Cover (front)

The Damage Done - Cover (back)

An excerpt from Gray's Anatomy including the picture of the cranial region that inspired the Merciful Release logo

The Damage Done was The Sisters' first single, recorded "...to hear ourselves on the radio."

Everything about THE MAKING OF ... the first single... is on The Sisters' very own webpage.

They swear that John Peel played it a couple of times, which was recently confirmed
through the research of the wonderful people at John Peel Wiki.

Some further interesting details on the broadcast of The Sisters' first single can also be found in the lovely
I Was A Teenage Sisters of Mercy Fan blog under Sisters Mysteries V – did Peel play Damage Done?.
On this question, see also this thread @The Heartland Forums and John Peel Shows 1980-85.

Another decade-long mystery in Sisters History has been the front cover photo, i.e. the church it shows.
Several fanbase attempts to track down the building ended in always another dead-end. However, now
- eventually - the secret is resolved !!! It is St Andrew's Church in West Tarring, West Sussex.

Read everything about that glory day of fanbase detective work in the above mentioned blog
at Sisters Mysteries VI - The Damage Done sleeve church found! ... :-))) ...

The Merciful Release logo on the cover back, which would accompany every future release by The Sisters
of Mercy in one or other incarnation, was inspired by Gray's Anatomy, a much-praised English book
on the anatomy of the human body.

The original tracks of the Damage Done single were re-issued in 1992 by The Sisters of Mercy
on their 2LP-compilation of early Sisters singles Some Girls Wander By Mistake

Release Notes

Label: Merciful Release

Format: 7" single

Catalogue#: MR7

Released: 11/80 (UK)

Band/Recording Personnel

Gary Marx - Guitars, Vocals

Andrew Eldritch - Vocals, Drums

Track List

Side A	Duration	Side B	Duration
A1 The Damage Done	3:04	B1 Watch	3:12
		B2 Home Of The Hit-Men	0:34

Notes

Home Of The Hit-Men is only listed on the label of side b, not on the cover.

The Damage Done was allegedly sung and written by Andrew Eldritch,

Watch and Home Of The Hit-Men by Gary.

Remarks

Produced at Ric Rac Sound Studio, mastered at Porky's Mastering, lacquer cut by Porky

The Damage Done - Red Rhino Insert

Published by Copyright Control

Pressed at Portland Recording Studios Ltd., London.

This was an edition of 1,000 copies only.
Half of them have, however, the labels reversed and pressed on the wrong side.

The single did not sell all that well and a certain stock remained stored for some time,
until - according to "F Is For Fake - these copies were distributed by Red Rhino Records
around the release of the Alice single in 1982, adding a small information insert and somewhat
palming them off as a "re-release".

The original Damage Done acetate and at least one white-label test pressing,
both with Portland Studios invoice, do still exist.

A slight bit more about the production and release appreciation can be found in the teenage sisters fan
blog entry on occasion of the 40th anniversary of the single The Damage Done XL !.

Real and fake versions

The tracks of this very first single appear on a countless number of Studio Bootlegs, on vinyl just as much as in CD format.

The single itself has been faked on several occasions! The most famous - and also the first and insofar quite searched for - fake copy is the Japanese one.

Some obvious remakes, which do not attempt to fool customers as they have the release year 2009 printed on the back cover, were produced by bootleggers

as well, see The Damage Done (Australian re-release) and/or The Damage Done (2009). Even less mistakable are the 1987 Primary releases...

A The Damage Done Russian flexi does of course exist as well. And - of course - a Greek picture disk ...

The Damage Done - Cover (front) - FAKE marker no.1

There appear to be more fakes of The Damage Done in circulation than genuine copies.

As the real ones can reach very high prices nowadays, it is important to know the difference.

The Heartland Image Gallery has scans of both, the real and the fake sleeves, along with pointers
on how to tell the difference, check them out at Damage Done genuine and fake sleeve scans,
and F is for Fake. Another interesting read and related Heartland Image Gallery item is this article
on The Damage Done test pressing "7.

Bizarrely enough, some collectors seem to take the stance that, in particular, the Japanese fake is
nearly as rare as the genuine one, and thus in recent times even the fake has become a collectible.

A clear feature to distinguish original from fake copies are the typical Porky run-outs:

Matrix / Run-outs The Damage Done original 7" single

Side A: MR-7-PICTURE-1 / EG / A PORKY PRIME CUT / FOR SPIGGY

Side B: MR-7-WORDS-1 / EG / ANUDDER PORKY PRIME CUT / FOR TRIXIE

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-[[Image:The Damage Done.jpg|right|thumb|350px]]
+[[Image:The Damage Done.jpg|right|thumb|350px|''The Damage Done'' - Cover (front)]]
-'''The Damage Done''' was [[Main_Page|The Sisters']] first single, recorded "to hear ourselves on the radio."<br/>
+[[File:The Damage Done Back.jpg|right|thumb|350px|''The Damage Done'' - Cover (back)]]
-They swear that [[John Peel]] played it a couple of times.
+[[File:Gray s Anatomy.jpg|thumb|right|350px|An excerpt from ''Gray's Anatomy'' including the picture of the cranial region that inspired the [[Merciful Release]] logo]]
+<br/>
+'''The Damage Done''' was [[Main_Page|The Sisters']] first single, recorded "...''to hear ourselves on the radio''."<br/>
+Everything about [http://www.thesistersofmercy.com/mek/mekddone.htm THE MAKING OF ... the first single...] is on The Sisters' very [http://www.thesistersofmercy.com/ own webpage].<br/>
+They swear that [[John Peel]] played it a couple of times, which was recently confirmed <br/>through the research of the wonderful people at [http://peel.wikia.com/wiki/Sisters_Of_Mercy John Peel Wiki].<br/>
+Some further interesting details on the broadcast of The Sisters' first single can also be found in the lovely <br/>[http://sistersfan.blogspot.de/ ''I Was A Teenage Sisters of Mercy Fan'' blog] under [http://sistersfan.blogspot.de/2017/02/sisters-mysteries-v-did-peel-play.html ''Sisters Mysteries V – did Peel play Damage Done?'']. <br/>On this question, see also [https://www.myheartland.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=25937 this thread @The Heartland Forums] and [[John Peel Shows 1980-85]].<br/>
+Another decade-long mystery in Sisters History has been the front cover photo, i.e. the church it shows.<br/>
+[https://www.myheartland.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=24095&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 Several fanbase attempts] to track down the building ended in always another dead-end. However, now <br/>- eventually - [https://www.myheartland.co.uk/viewtopic.php?p=668419#668419 the secret is resolved] !!! It is [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Andrew%27s_Church,_West_Tarring '''St Andrew's Church in West Tarring, West Sussex'''].<br/>
+Read everything about that glory day of fanbase detective work in the above mentioned blog <br/>
+at [https://sistersfan.blogspot.com/2018/10/sisters-mysteries-vi-damage-done-sleeve.html ''Sisters Mysteries VI - The Damage Done sleeve church found!''] ... ''':-)))''' ...<br/>
-As well as numerous bootlegs, the tracks from the single appear on [[Some Girls Wander By Mistake]]<br/>
+The [[Merciful Release]] logo on the cover back, which would accompany every future release by The Sisters<br/>
+of Mercy in one or other incarnation, was inspired by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray%27s_Anatomy ''Gray's Anatomy''], a much-praised English book<br/>on the anatomy of the human body.<br/>
+<br/>
+The original tracks of the Damage Done single were re-issued in 1992 by [[The Sisters of Mercy]]<br/>
+on their 2LP-compilation of early Sisters singles [[Some Girls Wander By Mistake]]<br/>
 <br/>
-==Tracks==
-* [[The Damage Done (song)|The Damage Done]]
+'''Release Notes'''
-* [[Watch]]
+* Label: [[Merciful Release]]
-* [[Home Of The Hit-Men]]<br/>
+* Format: 7" single
+* Catalogue#: MR7
+* Released: 11/80 (UK)
 <br/>
+'''Band/Recording Personnel'''
+* [[Gary Marx]] - Guitars, Vocals
-==Band/Recording Personnel==
+* [[Andrew Eldritch]] - Vocals, Drums
-* [[Gary Marx]] - Guitars, Vocals
+<br/>
-* [[Andrew Eldritch]] - Vocals, Drums<br/>
-<br/>
+==Track List==
+{|
+| '''''Side A'''''
+| '''''Duration'''''
+| '''''Side B'''''
+| '''''Duration'''''
+|-
+| A1&nbsp;&nbsp; [[The Damage Done (song)|The Damage Done]] &nbsp;&nbsp;  &nbsp;&nbsp;  &nbsp;&nbsp;
+| &nbsp;&nbsp; 3:04 &nbsp;&nbsp;  &nbsp;&nbsp;  &nbsp;&nbsp;  &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;  &nbsp;&nbsp;  &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;
+| B1&nbsp;&nbsp; [[Watch]] &nbsp;&nbsp;  &nbsp;&nbsp;  &nbsp;&nbsp;
+| &nbsp;&nbsp; 3:12
+|-
+|
+|
+| B2&nbsp;&nbsp; [[Home Of The Hit-Men]] &nbsp;&nbsp;  &nbsp;&nbsp;  &nbsp;&nbsp;
+| &nbsp;&nbsp; 0:34
+|-
+|}
+<br/>
+'''Notes'''
+* [[Home Of The Hit-Men]] is only listed on the label of side b, not on the cover.
+* [[The Damage Done (song)|The Damage Done]] was allegedly sung and written by [[Andrew Eldritch|Andrew Eldritch]],
+: [[Watch]] and [[Home Of The Hit-Men]] by [[Gary Marx|Gary]].<br/>
+<br/>
+'''Remarks'''
+* Produced at [http://www.discogs.com/label/Ric+Rac+Sound+Studio Ric Rac Sound Studio], mastered at [http://www.discogs.com/label/Porky%27s+Mastering Porky's Mastering], lacquer cut by [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Porky+%285%29 Porky]
+[[File:The Damage Done Red Rhino Insert.jpg|right|thumb|350px|''The Damage Done'' - Red Rhino Insert]]
+* Published by [http://www.discogs.com/label/Copyright+Control Copyright Control]
+* Pressed at Portland Recording Studios Ltd., London.
+* This was an edition of 1,000 copies only. <br/>Half of them have, however, the labels reversed and pressed on the wrong side.
+* The single did not sell all that well and a certain stock remained stored for some time, <br/>until - according to [https://www.myheartland.co.uk/gallery/details.php?image_id=1495 "F Is For Fake] - these copies were distributed by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Rhino_Records Red Rhino Records] <br/>around the release of the [[Alice (single)|Alice single]] in 1982, adding a small information insert and somewhat<br/>palming them off as a "re-release".
+* The original [[The Damage Done (acetate)|Damage Done acetate]] and at least one [[The Damage Done (test pressing)|white-label test pressing]], <br/>both with [https://www.discogs.com/de/label/279505-Portland-Studios?sort=year&sort_order= ''Portland Studios''] invoice, do still exist.
+<br/>
+A slight bit more about the production and  release appreciation can be found in the [https://sistersfan.blogspot.com/ teenage sisters fan] <br/>
+blog entry on occasion of the 40th anniversary of the single [https://sistersfan.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-damage-done-xl.html ''The Damage Done XL !''].<br/>
+<br/>
+== Real and fake versions==
+* The tracks of this very first single appear on a countless number of [[Studio Bootlegs]], on vinyl just as much as in CD format.
+* The single itself has been faked on several occasions! The most famous - and also the first and insofar quite searched for - fake copy is the [[The Damage Done (Japanese fake)|Japanese]] one.
+* Some obvious remakes, which do not attempt to fool customers as they have the release year 2009 printed on the back cover, were produced by bootleggers
+: as well, see [[The Damage Done (Australian 2009 re-issue)|The Damage Done (Australian re-release)]] and/or [[The Damage Done (Australian 2009 re-issue)|The Damage Done (2009)]]. Even less mistakable are the [[The Damage Done (Primary)|1987 ''Primary'' releases...]]<br/>
+* A [[The Damage Done (flexi)|The Damage Done Russian flexi]] does of course exist as well. And - of course - a [[The Damage Done (Greek PD)|Greek picture disk]] ...
+<br/>
+[[File:DD Fake Detect 1.jpg|right|thumb|380px|''The Damage Done'' - Cover (front) - FAKE marker no.1]]
-==Real and fake versions==
+There appear to be more fakes of '''''The Damage Done''''' in circulation than genuine copies.<br/>
-There appear to be more fakes of The Damage Done in circulation than genuine copies.<br/>
-As the real ones can reach prices above £300, it is important to know the difference.
-The [http://www.myheartland.co.uk/gallery/ Heartland Image Gallery] has scans of both the real and fake sleeves, along with pointers on how to tell the difference.
+As the real ones can reach very high prices nowadays, it is important to know the difference.<br/>
-[http://www.myheartland.co.uk/gallery/categories.php?cat_id=8 Damage Done genuine and fake sleeve scans]
+The [http://www.myheartland.co.uk/gallery/ Heartland Image Gallery] has scans of both, the real and the fake sleeves, along with pointers <br/>on how to tell the difference, check them out at [http://www.myheartland.co.uk/gallery/categories.php?cat_id=8 ''Damage Done genuine and fake sleeve scans''], <br/>and [https://www.myheartland.co.uk/gallery/details.php?image_id=1495 ''F is for Fake'']. Another interesting read and related Heartland Image Gallery item is this article <br/>on [https://www.myheartland.co.uk/gallery/details.php?image_id=1496 ''The Damage Done test pressing "7''].<br/>
-Bizarrely enough, some collectors seem to take the stance that the fake is nearly as rare as the genuine one,<br/>
+Bizarrely enough, some collectors seem to take the stance that, in particular, the [[The Damage Done (Japanese fake)|Japanese fake]] is <br/>nearly as rare as the genuine one, and thus in recent times even the fake has become  a collectible.<br/>
-and thus in recent times even the fake has become semi-collectible.<br/>
 <br/>
-==Notes==
-The Damage Done is sung by Andrew, Watch and Home Of The Hitmen are sung by Gary
+A clear feature to distinguish original from fake copies are the typical [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Porky+%285%29 Porky] run-outs:<br/>
+'''Matrix / Run-outs ''The Damage Done'' original 7" single'''<br/>
+* Side A: MR-7-PICTURE-1 / EG / A PORKY PRIME CUT / FOR SPIGGY
+* Side B: MR-7-WORDS-1 / EG / ANUDDER PORKY PRIME CUT / FOR TRIXIE<br/>
+see also the pictures below.<br/>
-White label test pressing with sheet and Portland Studios acetate exist.
+<font size="3">'''''Additional Pictures'''''</font>
+----
+- Please click into files for larger views -
+{|
+|[[File:The Damage Done Side A.jpg|thumb|left|240px|''The Damage Done'' - 7" Single (Side A)]]
+|[[File:The Damage Done Side B.jpg|thumb|left|240px|''The Damage Done'' - 7" Single (Side AA)]]
+|[[File:The Damage Done Label Side A.jpg|thumb|left|245px|''The Damage Done''  - Label (Side A)]]
+|[[File:The Damage Done Label Side B.jpg|thumb|left|280px|''The Damage Done'' - Label (Side AA)]]
+|-
+|}
+'''The Run-outs'''
+{|
+|[[File:DD Single Runout A A Porky Prime Cut.jpg|left|thumb|245px|''The Damage Done'' - 7" Single (Side A) <br/>- Run-out "A Porky Prime Cut"]]
+|[[File:DD Single Runout A For Spiggy.jpg|thumb|left|245px|''The Damage Done'' - 7" Single (Side A) <br/>- Run-out "For Spiggy"]]
+|[[File:DD Single Runout AA Anudder Porkie Prime Cur.jpg|thumb|left|245px|''The Damage Done'' - 7" Single (Side AA) <br/>- Run-out "Anudder Porky Prime Cut"]]
+|[[File:DD Single Runout AA For Trixie.jpg|thumb|left|245px|''The Damage Done'' - 7" Single (Side AA) <br/>- Run-out "For Trixie"]]
+|-
+|}
+[[Category: Official Releases]]

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