^ from Rock This Town to Stranger On The Town…

^ From The Ruts to a song in tribute to the late Malcolm Owen of The Ruts…

If the plea ‘don’t bring me down’ fell on deaf ears, you’d probably feel that you just can’t be happy today…

Dave Vanian of The Damned often dressed up as a vampire, so…

Since Lloyd was admirably, though unhelpfully, laconic we’re left to guess that the link is one of the following, if not both:

• From daft to Captain Sensible, who was in The Damned…
• From Daft Punk to a group of daft punks…

A love connection.

Bonus tenuous link alert – The Contours are from Detroit, which begins with ‘D’, as does ‘Damned’…

A blackout link…

A way to destroy something might be to ‘smash it up’…

Another song with three words repeated in the title…

‘Alone Again Or’ was covered by…