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{{short description|Song by The Damned}}
{{Other uses|Seven Lively Arts (disambiguation){{!}}Seven Lively Arts}}
{{More citations needed|date=December 2023}}
{{Infobox song
| name       = Lively Arts
| cover      = Damned_Lively_Arts.jpeg
| alt        =
| type       = single
| artist     = [[The Damned (band)|The Damned]]
| album      = [[The Black Album (The Damned)|The Black Album]]
| B-side     = "Teenage Dream" (Live)
| released   = 10 October 1982
| recorded   = 1982
| studio     =
| venue      =
| genre      = [[Gothic rock]]<ref name="Segretto 2022">{{cite book|title=33 1/3 Revolutions Per Minute - A Critical Trip Through the Rock LP Era, 1955–1999|first=Mike|last=Segretto|date=2022|chapter= 1980|page= 378|publisher=Backbeat|isbn=9781493064601|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jtNtEAAAQBAJ}}</ref>
| length     = 2:59
| label      = [[Big Beat Records (Ace subsidiary)|Big Beat]]<br> <small>NS 80</small>
| writer     = Scabies, Sensible, Vanian, Gray
| producer   = [[The Damned (band)|The Damned]]
| prev_title = [[Dozen Girls]]
| prev_year  = 1982
| next_title = [[Generals (Damned)|Generals]]
| next_year  = 1982
}}
"'''Lively Arts'''" is a single released by English [[Rock music|rock]] band [[The Damned (band)|The Damned]].
[[Big Beat (UK)|Big Beat]], budget imprint of [[Chiswick Records]], followed up their belated release of "[[Wait for the Blackout]]" as a single with the release of another track from ''[[The Black Album (The Damned)|The Black Album]]'', "Lively Arts". Like all of Big Beat's Damned reissues, the single failed to chart, not helped by the band not promoting it (they had recently released the new LP ''[[Strawberries (album)|Strawberries]]'' on [[Bronze Records]]) and partly due to the track having been available on the album for two years.
==Track listing==
# "Lively Arts" (Scabies, Sensible, Vanian, Gray) - 3:57
# "Teenage Dream" (Scabies, Sensible, Vanian, [[Algy Ward|Ward]]) - 2:36
Bonus Track on 10"/12" single: -
# "I'm So Bored" (Scabies, Sensible, Vanian, Ward) - 1:17
==Production credits==
* '''[[Record producer|Producer]]s''':
** [[The Damned (band)|The Damned]]
* '''[[Musician]]s''':
** [[Dave Vanian]]: [[Singing|Vocals]]
** [[Captain Sensible]]: [[Guitar]]
** [[Rat Scabies]]: [[Drum]]s
** [[Paul Gray (English musician)|Paul Gray]]: [[Bass guitar|Bass]] on "Lively Arts"
** [[Algy Ward]]: [[Bass guitar|Bass]] on "Teenage Dream" and "I'm So Bored"
** [[Hanz Zimmer]]: [[synthesizer]] on "Lively Arts"
==References==
{{Reflist}}
==External links==
*{{discogs master|18707|type=single}}
{{The Damned}}
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[[Category:1982 singles]]
[[Category:The Damned (band) songs]]
[[Category:Songs written by Rat Scabies]]
[[Category:Songs written by Captain Sensible]]
[[Category:Songs written by David Vanian]]
[[Category:Songs written by Paul Gray (English musician)]]
[[Category:1982 songs]]