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Cuddly Toys, the late-70’s glam-punk band, have their debut album ‘Guillotine Theatre’ released on CD for the first time, with extra and unreleased tracks, and packaged together with a bonus 55-minute DVD featuring six promo videos, interviews, slide shows and a live show.

Formed in London in the winter of 1976/77, they spent two years as shock-punk band Raped, revelling in pissing people off with publicity seeking scams, gaining from the press nothing but opprobrium. They’d hung around the Kings Road emergent punk scene – guitarist Faebhean Kwest had auditioned for the Sex Pistols before he found the Iggy-loving Sean Purcell, ‘normal’ bassist Tony Baggett and cross-dressing blonde Japanese drummer Paddy Phield.

Sean found a singing voice, and their music and image evolved out of punk to fully embrace their passion for glam heroes Bowie, Bolan and NY Dolls. So they changed their provocative name to the huggy-nice Cuddly Toys and added a keyboard player, Billy Sur...