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Hugh Cornwell (The Stranglers) in concert

The Rattus Norvegicus single 'Peaches' helped buoy The Stranglers to national acclaim and became their first top-ten hit. Cornwell delivered the highly suggestive lyrics with a considered sneer that secured its ongoing success with a ban from the BBC to boot. The broadcasting giant, who cited "coarse language and innuendo," inadvertently fuelled the punk fire.


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As the band's original singer Hugh Cornwell tweeted last year, the keyboard player made "the difference between the Stranglers and every other punk band". Fans grew to adore Greenfield's.


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Hugh Alan Cornwell (born 28 August 1949) is an English musician, singer-songwriter and writer, best known for being the lead vocalist and lead guitarist for the punk rock and new wave band the Stranglers from 1974 to 1990. Since leaving the Stranglers, Cornwell has recorded a further ten solo studio albums and continues to record and perform live.


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Micah Goldstein. "What's totem for me/Is taboo for you," Hugh Cornwell, the former singer-guitarist of British punk's charter scoundrels, the Stranglers, sang in a leathery growl, exactly.


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From left: Jean-Jacques Burnel, Dave Greenfield and Hugh Cornwell. Photograph: RB/Redferns The Stranglers Obituary Jet Black obituary Founding member and drummer of the Stranglers who set.


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Prolific, iconoclastic, and as he reveals here in this tell-all confessional about a life spent buying electric guitars, a collector of affordable Fender Telecasters, Hugh Cornwell helped change the shape of punk and post-punk in 16 years with The Stranglers.


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Jet and Dave Greenfield were sensible, and quit after a day - Hugh Cornwell and I didn't. We headed into a surreal, dark, necromantic abyss. "One night I was so blessed out I thought it would be wonderful to die. I wrote a lovely suicide note, took loads of heroin - and woke up three days later.


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The Stranglers' Jean-Jacques Burnel and Hugh Cornwell playing in Battersea Park in London in 1978. Photograph: Gus Stewart/Redferns Culture The Stranglers on 40 years of fights, drugs, UFOs.


Hugh Cornwell of The Stranglers at Malvern Winter Gardens, 6 October 1977 Malvern Rock Archive

1979 Work on Nosferatu continues through to April. Hugh releases his first solo single, a cover of Cream's White Room. The Stranglers album The Raven released. November 1st Hugh arrested & charged with possession of drugs. Hugh's debut solo album, Nosferatu, released on November 16th. 1980 The Stranglers Meninblack album worked on by band.


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The Stranglers ' Jean-Jacques Burnel has told Planet Rock that former vocalist and guitarist Hugh Cornwell is blocking a finished movie about the band from being released. The punk icons first announced back in 2018 that a documentary film directed by photographer and videographer David Boni is in the works.


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The new album Moments of Madness, plus Restoration featuring 10 acoustic Stranglers tracks. 2CD / Double Gatefold 180GSM Vinyl / Digital. Out October 21st 2022 Hugh Cornwell - Moments of Madness - The New Album


Punk in the East Hugh Cornwell, Stranglers, Norwich 1977.

39 years ago today, Hugh Cornwell - best known as the former lead singer of The Stranglers - received the unfortunate news that he'd soon be spending some time behind bars. In late 1979, Cornwell was fronting The Stranglers, a band beloved to music fans all over the UK.


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Hugh Cornwell, former frontman of The Stranglers (Image: Sonic PR) "Ever since I left The Stranglers, Glasgow has been one of my strongholds," muses Hugh Cornwell, erstwhile singer of the iconic.


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Hugh once tied a French journalist to a girder of the Eiffel Tower - 200feet above the ground. JJ kidnapped another hapless hack and suspended him over a London stage. In Australia, he.


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HERE'S LOOKING AT HUGH: THE STRANGLERS' HUGH CORNWELL SPEAKS The former guitarist/vocalist of the classic English punk band has, since he left the Stranglers, had a long and wide-ranging solo career as both a musician and writer.


Hugh Cornwell (The Stranglers), Battersea Park, London 1978 Guitarist, Vocalist, John Cooper

Former Stranglers frontman and poet laureate of the punk era, Hugh Cornwell, made a welcome return to Brighton this evening in support of his tenth solo album 'Moments Of Madness' which dropped on Friday 7th October 2022.