"In Dulce Decorum" was a single released by The Damned in 1987.
The song was originally recorded for the Anything album, but was issued as a single to promote the MCA retrospective Light at the End of the Tunnel. The track was inspired by Wilfred Owen's poem Dulce et Decorum Est, and began with an excerpt from a speech by Winston Churchill. The single, The Damned's last to break into the UK charts, made #72. An instrumental version was included in the Miami Vice II original television soundtrack, being featured in the third season episode "Walk Alone".
MCA also issued the single in Germany.
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Famous quotes containing the words dulce and/or decorum:
“My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.”
—Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)
“Writing an upbeat aphorism is a temptation, but decorum forbids.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)