Wait for the Blackout

Infobox Single
Name = Wait for the Blackout

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Artist = The Damned
from Album = The Black Album
A-side =
B-side = Jet Boy Jet Girl
Released = 6 May 1982
Format = 7" single
Recorded = 1980
Genre = Rock
Length = 3:57
Label = Big Beat
NS 77
Writer =
Producer = The Damned
Certification =
Chart position =
Last single = Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
(1981)
This single = Wait for the Blackout
(1982)
Next single = Lovely Money
(1982)
Misc =

Wait for the Blackout was a single by The Damned.

Initially, Chiswick issued "Wait for the Blackout" instead of "The History of the World Part 1" as a single to promote "The Black Album" in Spain, with "Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde" as the B-side.

In 1982, their Big Beat budget imprint reissued the track as a single in the UK, despite The Damned having left the label two years previously. The B-side was provided by Damned guitarist Captain Sensible's spin-off project, Captain Sensible and the Softies, in the form of "Jet Boy Jet Girl". This was a cover version of the 1977 recording by Elton Motello, which shared its backing track with Plastic Bertrand's "Ça Plane Pour Moi". The writing credit for Ward refers to Motello, real name Alan Ward, not ex-Damned bass player Algy Ward.

"Wait for the Blackout" was covered by The Goo Goo Dolls for the Tommy Boy soundtrack. It finally saw release on The Goo Goo Doll's Greatest Hits Volume 2, released on August 19th, 2008.

It was covered by Alkaline Trio on BYO Split Series, Vol. 5 as well as on the 2007 release Remains

Track listing (UK release)

# "Wait for the Blackout" (Scabies, Sensible, Vanian, Gray) - 3:57
# "Looking at You (Live)" (Deprijck, Lacomblez, Ward) - 3:54

Production credits

* Producers:
** The Damned ("Wait for the Blackout")
** Jan Reitman ("Jet Boy Jet Girl")
* Musicians:

"Wait for the Blackout"
** Dave Vanian: Vocals
** Captain Sensible: Guitar, Vocals on "I Believe the Impossible"
** Rat Scabies: Drums
** Paul Gray: Bass

"Jet Boy Jet Girl"
** Captain Sensible: Vocals
** 'Big Mick': Guitar, Vocals
** 'Joe Thumper': Drums
** 'Frank N Stein': Bass