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The Damned
The Damned
British rock band
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Chrissie Hynde
Chrissie Hynde
American singer-songwriter and rock musician; founder of The Pretenders
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Sid Vicious
Sid Vicious
English bassist and vocalist
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The Pretenders
The Pretenders
English-American rock band
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Rat Scabies
Rat Scabies
English musician
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Glen Matlock
Glen Matlock
English musician
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David Vanian
David Vanian
British singer
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Sex Pistols
Sex Pistols
English punk rock band
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London SS
London SS
British punk rock group
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Steve Strange
Steve Strange
Welsh pop singer (1959-2015)
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The Flowers of Romance
The Flowers of Romance
British early punk band, formed in mid-1976
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Steve Jones
Steve Jones
English rock guitarist, singer and actor
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Eddie and the Hot Rods
Eddie and the Hot Rods
British band
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Malcolm McLaren
Malcolm McLaren
English artist, performer and fashion designer
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The Clash
The Clash
British punk rock band
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Chris Thomas
Chris Thomas
British record producer
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Don Letts
Don Letts
British film director
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Captain Sensible
Captain Sensible
English singer and guitarist
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James Honeyman-Scott
James Honeyman-Scott
British musician
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The Professionals
The Professionals
band
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Johnny Moped
Johnny Moped
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Patricia Morrison
Patricia Morrison
female musician
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John Lydon
John Lydon
English musician
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Subway Sect
Subway Sect
band
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Doctors of Madness
Doctors of Madness
band
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Adam and the Ants
Adam and the Ants
English rock band
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Buzzcocks
Buzzcocks
British band
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The Boys
The Boys
English punk rock band

Masters of the Backside was an early British punk rock group. They never released a recording or performed beyond practice sessions, but the group's members went on to greater success: Chrissie Hynde later fronted The Pretenders, and Dave Vanian, Captain Sensible and Rat Scabies were subsequently founding members of The Damned.

The band was formed by future Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren, who wanted to create a band with the sound of Ramones and the style of former Television member Richard Hell, both of whom he had seen perform at CBGB. He initially intended the band to have two singers.

The band is only known to have performed once, before a small invited audience in a church hall in Lisson Grove, London. They broke up before playing any public concerts or recording any material, after the members became tired of McLaren's need to control their activity. McLaren had more success with his second band, Sex Pistols, and Hynde eventually formed the Pretenders while Vanian, Sensible, and Scabies teamed up with former London SS member Brian James to form The Damned.

Masters of the Backside has since gone on to attain semi-legendary status with punks alongside London SS and The Flowers of Romance.

It is unclear when the band began using the name "Masters of the Backside" as The Damned acknowledge some of their members first performed together in a group with Hynde but they refer to the project as being unnamed.