By Martin Kielty ( Classic Rock ) published March 13, 2014 JJ Burnell tells of writing suicide note after “artistic decision to see what would happen” JJ Burnel and Jet Black have recalled the time The Stranglers decided to take heroin for a year – leading to bassist Burnel deciding to commit suicide. JJ Burnel and Jet Black have recalled the […]
Berryman 500 пратилаца The Stranglers are an English rock band who emerged via the punk rock scene. Scoring some 23 UK top 40 singles and 17 studios albums to date in a career spanning four decades, the Stranglers are one of the longest-surviving and most “continuously successful” bands to have originated in the UK punk […]
Tim StegallPublished: June 28, 2022 As with all of our other lists quantifying the greatest musicians in punk-rock history, it’s a fairly daunting task. On the surface, this is a back-to-basics musical style. Instrumental flash isn’t a virtue here. And most punk bass players keep things simple, banging out the root notes of the chord progression quickly, […]
By Paul H Birch June 9, 2022 Good things come to those who wait, and Hugh Cornwell’s highly anticipated tenth solo album in Moments of Madness will be released on Friday 7th October, and it will dovetail with a 21-date nationwide UK tour taking place from November 4 to December 3 of this year, but ahead of that comes his new […]
Hugh Cornwell returns with his highly anticipated tenth solo album “Moments of Madness” with ten outstanding tracks that are set to surprise. The album is released on Friday October 7, 2022. MOMENTS OF MADNESS – NEW ALBUM AND TOUR Hugh Cornwell returns with his highly anticipated tenth solo album Moments of Madness with ten outstanding tracks that […]
Eoghan LyngSUN 5TH JUN 2022 Contrary to popular legend,’Perfect Day’ is not about drugs. It’s about a day that’s spent in good company, and in a pleasant environment. And contrary to popular legend, ‘Lucy in The Sky With Diamonds’ is not about drugs, but based on a drawing Julian Lennon presented to his father, which propelled his […]
Tom Taylor @TomTaylorFOSAT 21ST MAY 2022 The liberating boom of rock ‘n’ roll changed the world, propelling the sixties from the monochrome past into a new tie-dye swirled future. Therefore, it comes as quite the retrospective surprise to hear that The Doors were actually banned from The Ed Sullivan Show simply for refusing to change […]
Arguably The Stranglers’ starkest and most compelling work, ‘Black And White’ was one of its era’s most innovative albums. ALAN YORK 12 May 2022 The Stranglers may have been notoriously ambivalent about punk, but they were responsible for two of the initial movement’s classic albums, Rattus Norvegicus and its fierce, provocative follow-up, No More Heroes. Yet even before […]
y Trish Lee – trish.lee@newburynews.co.uk Published: 09:43, 18 April 2022 Hugh Cornwell Electric, at Arlington Arts, on Thursday, April 7. Review by BRIAN HARRINGTON HUGH Cornwell achieved fame as the frontman of punk pioneers The Stranglers, in my opinion, one of the most innovative bands of the genre. It is possibly less common knowledge that since […]
17 Apr 2022 When you’re a fan of both The Stranglers and Wrexham, it seems almost inevitable you are going to work out which of the band’s impressive back catalogue would fit in well on the terraces at The Racecourse. So it was that radio presenter and musician Neil Crud came to record what can […]