Editing Captain Sensible (section)

==Solo career==
Captain Sensible's first solo release came in 1978 with the single "[[Jet Boy, Jet Girl]]", an [[Elton Motello]] cover recorded while the Damned were on hiatus.<ref name="GID">{{cite book|first= Martin Charles |last= Strong |year= 2003 |title= The Great Indie Discography |publisher= [[Canongate Books|Canongate]] |pages= 23–24 |isbn= 1-84195-335-0}}</ref> He followed this in 1981 with the ''[[This Is Your Captain Speaking (EP)|This Is Your Captain Speaking]]'' [[Extended play|EP]] on [[Crass Records]].<ref name="GID"/> He signed to [[A&M Records]] and had a UK number one hit in 1982 with a cover of "[[Happy Talk (song)|Happy Talk]]", the Rodgers and Hammerstein song from ''[[South Pacific (musical)|South Pacific]]'', featuring backing by [[Dolly Mixture (band)|Dolly Mixture]] and a band including [[Robyn Hitchcock]] on guitar.<ref name="GID"/> This was later [[Sampling (music)|sampled]] for [[British hip hop]] artist [[Dizzee Rascal]]'s 2004 song "Dream".<ref>{{cite magazine |title= Happy Rascal |magazine= [[NME]] |access-date= 6 January 2014 |url= http://www.nme.com/news/dizzee-rascal/18254 |archive-date= 26 December 2013 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131226023356/http://www.nme.com/news/dizzee-rascal/18254 |url-status= live }}</ref>

Other Captain Sensible songs that became hits in the UK and Europe were "[[Wot (song)|Wot]]", "One Christmas Catalogue" and anti-[[Falklands War]] "Glad It's All Over", which was co-written and produced by [[Tony Mansfield]]. After quitting A&M Records he continued recording for various independent labels, including Deltic Records and Humbug Records. He has also toured with his solo band Punk Floyd.

Captain Sensible's recording of "The Snooker Song" from [[Mike Batt]]'s musical ''[[The Hunting of the Snark (musical)|The Hunting of the Snark]]'' was used as the theme music for the [[BBC]] gameshow ''[[Big Break]]'', and he also wrote and performed a song called "Brain's Theme" for the movie ''Skinned Deep'' in 2004.

[[File:CaptainSensible02.jpg|thumb|upright|Captain Sensible performing live in [[Abergavenny]], 1994]]
Captain Sensible is also a member of [[Dead Men Walking]], a [[Supergroup (music)|supergroup]] featuring [[Mike Peters (musician)|Mike Peters]], [[Kirk Brandon]] ([[Spear of Destiny (band)|Spear of Destiny]]) and [[Slim Jim Phantom]],<ref>{{cite web|title= Dead Men Walking |publisher= [[BBC Online]] |date= 5 October 2006 |url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/cumbria/content/articles/2006/10/05/louder_deadmenwalking_feature.shtml |archive-date= 10 February 2009 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090210004937/http://www.bbc.co.uk/cumbria/content/articles/2006/10/05/louder_deadmenwalking_feature.shtml}}</ref> and the Sensible Gray Cells with current Damned mate [[Paul Gray (English musician)|Paul Gray]].