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The Stranglers

The Stranglers are an English rock band who emerged via the punk rock scene. Scoring 23 UK top 40 singles and 19 UK top 40 albums to date in a career spanning five decades, the Stranglers are one of the longest-surviving bands to have originated in the UK punk scene.

The Stranglers
The Stranglers performing in Chicago in 2013
Background information
OriginGuildford, Surrey, England
Genres
Years active1974 (1974)–present
Labels
Members
Past members
Websitewww.thestranglers.co.uk

Formed as the Guildford Stranglers in Guildford, Surrey, in early 1974,[4] they originally built a following within the mid-1970s pub rock scene. While their aggressive, no-compromise attitude had them identified by the media with the emerging UK punk rock scene that followed, their idiosyncratic approach rarely followed any single musical genre, and the group went on to explore a variety of musical styles, from new wave, art rock and gothic rock through the sophisti-pop of some of their 1980s output. They had major mainstream success with their 1982 single "Golden Brown". Their other hits include "No More Heroes", "Peaches", "Always the Sun", "Skin Deep" and "Big Thing Coming".

The Stranglers' early sound was driven by Jean-Jacques Burnel's melodic bass, but also gave prominence to Dave Greenfield's keyboards. Their early music was also characterised by the growling vocals and sometimes misanthropic lyrics of both Burnel and Hugh Cornwell.[5] Over time, their output gradually grew more refined and sophisticated. Summing up their contribution to popular music, critic Dave Thompson later wrote: "From bad-mannered yobs to purveyors of supreme pop delicacies, the group was responsible for music that may have been ugly and might have been crude – but it was never, ever boring."[6]

Keyboard player Dave Greenfield died on 3 May 2020 after contracting COVID-19 while receiving treatment for a heart ailment.[7] The remaining band members completed a new album recorded with Greenfield, Dark Matters following his death and confirmed that they would proceed with their "Final Full UK Tour", initially announced in January 2020, in his honour.[8][9]

History

Formation and mainstream success (1974–1979)

Before forming the band, "Jet Black" (real name Brian Duffy) was in his mid-30s. A successful businessman, Black at one point owned a fleet of ice cream vans,[10] and later ran "The Jackpot",[11] a Guildford off-licence that would serve as the base for the early Stranglers.[12][13] Black had also been a semi-professional drummer in the late 1950s and early 1960s; after attaining a degree of financial stability due to his business successes, by 1974 he decided to return to drumming, and to assemble a band. The Stranglers came to be an influential band in the British punk and new wave scene of the mid-70s. Black drove the ice cream vans that would serve as the Stranglers' early tour buses.[14]

The group that eventually formed between 1974 and 1975 was originally named The Guildford Stranglers, but they soon dropped the geographical prefix and the name, The Stranglers, was registered as a business on 11 September 1974 by Black.[4][15] The other original personnel were bass player/vocalist Jean-Jacques Burnel, guitarist/vocalist Hugh Cornwell and keyboardist/guitarist Hans Wärmling, who was replaced by keyboardist Dave Greenfield within a year.[16] None of the band came from the Guildford area apart from Burnel, who was originally from Notting Hill but moved to Godalming during his childhood. Black is from Ilford, Cornwell from Kentish Town and Greenfield from Brighton, while Wärmling came from Gothenburg and returned there after leaving the band.

Cornwell was a blues musician before forming the band and had briefly been a bandmate of Richard Thompson,[17] Burnel had been a classical guitarist who had performed with symphony orchestras,[18] Black's musical background was as a jazz drummer,[19] and Dave Greenfield had played at military bases in Germany.[20] Their early influences included pre-punk psychedelic rock bands such as the Doors[21][22] and the Music Machine.

From 1976 the Stranglers became associated with the burgeoning punk rock movement, due in part to their opening for the first British tours of American punks the Ramones and Patti Smith.[23][24] Notwithstanding this association, some of the movement's champions in the British musical press viewed the band with suspicion on account of their age and musical virtuosity and the intellectual bent of some of their lyrics. However, Burnel was quoted saying, "I thought of myself as part of punk at the time because we were inhabiting the same flora and fauna ... I would like to think the Stranglers were more punk plus and then some."[25]

The band's early albums, Rattus Norvegicus, No More Heroes and Black and White, all released within a period of 13 months, were highly successful with the record-buying public and singles such as "Peaches", "Something Better Change" and "No More Heroes" became instant punk classics. Meanwhile, the band received a mixed reception from some critics because of their apparent sexist and racist innuendo. However, critic Dave Thompson argued that such criticism was oblivious to the satire and irony in the band's music, writing: "the Stranglers themselves revelled in an almost Monty Python-esque grasp of absurdity (and, in particular, the absurdities of modern 'men's talk')."[26] These albums went on to build a strong fan-following, but the group's confrontational attitude towards the press was increasingly problematic and triggered a severe backlash when Burnel, a martial arts enthusiast, punched music journalist Jon Savage during a promotional event.[27]

In February 1978 the Stranglers began a mini-tour, playing three secret pub gigs as a thank-you to those venues and their landlords for their support during the band's rise to success. The first was at The Duke of Lancaster in New Barnet on Valentine's Day,[28] with further performances at The Red Cow, Hammersmith, and The Nashville Rooms, West Kensington, in early September.[29]

During their appearance at the University of Surrey on the BBC TV programme Rock Goes to College on 19 October 1978, the group walked off stage because an agreement to make tickets available to non-university students had not been honoured.[30]

In the later half of the 1970s, the Stranglers toured Japan twice, joining the alternative music scene of Tokyo, which was evolving from the punk sound of Kyoto-based band Murahachibu (村八分, Ostracism), whose music influence spread to Tokyo in 1971. The Stranglers were the only foreign band to take part in a landmark scene focused around S-KEN Studio in Roppongi, and The Loft venues in Shinjuku and Shimokitazawa from 1977 to 1979.[31] The scene included bands such as Friction, and they became friends with the band, Red Lizard, who they invited back to London, where the band became known as Lizard.[32] In 1979, while still in Japan, Burnel also became close friends with Keith, co-founder and drummer for ARB. At the end of 1983, ARB's bassist was imprisoned, leaving the band with a problem for their forthcoming tour. Burnel took time out from the Stranglers to fly out to Japan at short notice and join ARB to cover the tour, including appearing at the 'All Japan Rock Festival' at Hibaya park, becoming the first non-Japanese to ever appear at the festival.[33][34][35] Burnel toured with ARB for 5 weeks and played on two studio tracks, "Yellow Blood" and "Fight it Out", both of which appeared on the RCA Victor ARB album Yellow Blood.[36]

Second phase (1979–1982)

In 1979, one of the Stranglers' two managers advised them to break up as he felt that the band had lost direction, but this idea was dismissed and they parted company with their management team.[37] Meanwhile, Burnel released an experimental solo album Euroman Cometh backed by a small UK tour and Cornwell recorded the album Nosferatu in collaboration with Robert Williams. Later that year the Stranglers released The Raven, which heralded a transition towards a more melodic and complex sound which appealed more to the album than the singles market. The songs on The Raven are multi-layered and musically complicated, and deal with such subjects as a Viking's lonely voyage, heroin addiction, genetic engineering, contemporary political events in Iran and Australia and extraterrestrial visitors, "Meninblack". The Raven saw a definite transition in the band's sound. The Hohner Cembalet – so prominent on the previous three albums – was dropped and Oberheim synthesizers used instead whilst acoustic piano was used on "Don't Bring Harry". A harmonizer was used to treat Burnel's vocal on the track "Meninblack", the recording of which led to Martin Rushent, who had produced their earlier albums, walking out leaving the band to co-produce the album themselves with Alan Winstanley.[38]

We're never going to use a producer again. They are just shitty little parasites. All they're good for is telling jokes. And we know better jokes than any of 'em.

— Hugh Cornwell, NME – November 1979[39]

The Raven was not released in the US; instead a compilation album The Stranglers IV was released in 1980, containing a selection of tracks from The Raven and a mix of earlier and later non-album tracks. The Raven sold well, reaching No.4 in the UK Albums Chart - it spawned one top 20 single, "Duchess", with "Nuclear Device" reaching No.36 and the EP "Don't Bring Harry" reaching No.41. This was followed by a non-album single, "Bear Cage", backed with "Shah Shah a Go Go" from The Raven. A 12-inch single, the band's first, containing extended mixes of both tracks was also released, but "Bear Cage" also only managed No.36 in the charts.

Following the success of the Stranglers' previous four albums they were given complete freedom for their next, The Gospel According to the Meninblack, a concept album exploring religion and the supposed connection between religious phenomena and extraterrestrial visitors. It was preceded by a single "Who Wants the World", which didn't appear on the album, and only just made the top 40. The album also included "Waltzinblack" which became adopted as a theme by TV chef Keith Floyd. The Gospel According to The Meninblack was very different from their earlier work and alienated many fans.[40] It peaked on the UK albums chart at No.8, their lowest placing to date, and in 1981 was widely considered an artistic and commercial failure.[40] The track "Two Sunspots" had been recorded during the Black And White sessions in 1978, but was shelved until 1980 when it was rediscovered and placed on The Gospel According to the Meninblack. The "Meninblack" track from The Raven is the "Two Sunspots" soundtrack slowed down.[38]

After a slow start, the Stranglers recovered their commercial and critical status with La Folie (1981) which was another concept album, this time exploring the subject of love. At first La Folie charted lower than any other Stranglers studio album, and the first single taken from it, "Let Me Introduce You to the Family", only charted at No.42. However, the next single was "Golden Brown". The song is an evocative waltz-time ballad, with an extra beat in the fourth bar. Cornwell said the lyrics were "about heroin and also about a girl. She was of Mediterranean origin and her skin was golden brown."[41] It became their biggest hit, charting at No.2 in the UK Singles Chart. It was also named as "record of the week" on BBC Radio 2, despite the station not previously playing music associated with the punk genre. It remains a radio staple to this day. Following this success, La Folie recharted at No.11 in the UK albums chart. "Tramp" was originally thought to be the ideal follow-up single to "Golden Brown"; however "La Folie" was chosen after Burnel convinced his bandmates of its potential.[42] Sung in French, it received negligible airplay and charted at No.47. Shortly afterwards the Stranglers left EMI. As part of their severance deal, the Stranglers were forced to release a greatest hits collection, The Collection 1977–1982.[43] The track listing for The Collection 1977–1982 included the new single "Strange Little Girl", which had originally been recorded on a demo in '74 and rejected by EMI. It became a hit, charting at No.7 in July 1982.

New label and sound (1983–1990)

Following the Stranglers' return to commercial success, many record companies lined up to sign them. Virgin Records was the most likely choice but Epic Records made a last minute offer and secured the Stranglers' services. The Stranglers once again had complete artistic freedom and in 1983 released their first album for Epic, Feline, which included the UK No. 9 hit "European Female". The album was another change in musical direction, this time influenced by European music. It was the first Stranglers album to feature acoustic guitars, and it was on this album that Jet Black began to use electronic drum kits.[44] Hugh Cornwell stated, "On La Folie there were three tracks – 'Golden Brown' ... 'La Folie' and 'How to Find True Love and Happiness in the Present Day' – that sort of pointed us away from what we had been doing. It was strange doing those tracks, because we'd never really attempted that quite minimalistic recording technique. And when we started writing for Feline, things were coming out the same way."[45] The album gained much critical success but fell well short of La Folie in terms of sales and failed to produce another hit after "European Female". Nonetheless Feline broke the Stranglers in Europe and reached No.4 in the UK chart in January 1983.

1984 saw the release of Aural Sculpture which consolidated the band's success in Europe and established them in Oceania. It included the UK No.15 hit "Skin Deep" (which also reached No. 11 in Australia and No. 19 in New Zealand, and Top 30 in the Netherlands). This was their first album to feature the three-piece horn-section which was retained in all their subsequent albums and live performances until Hugh Cornwell's departure in 1990. Aural Sculpture was only a moderate success in the UK album charts, peaking at No.14 in November 1984.

Their 1986 album, Dreamtime, dealt with environmental concerns among other issues. Its signature track, and another radio staple for many years to come, was "Always the Sun" (a No.15 hit in France and No.16 hit in Ireland, No.21 in Australia, No.30 in the UK, and No.42 in the Netherlands). The only Stranglers album to chart in the US, Dreamtime was again only a moderate hit in the UK, reaching No. 16 in November 1986.

The Stranglers' final album with Cornwell, 10, was released in 1990. This was recorded with the intention of building on their "cult" status in America. Following the success of their cover of The Kinks' "All Day and All of the Night", a UK No. 7 hit in 1988, the Stranglers released another '60s cover, "96 Tears" as their first single from 10; it reached No. 17 in the UK. Despite this success, the follow-up single "Sweet Smell of Success" only reached No.65. "Man of the Earth", which the band had high hopes for, was due to be the third single from the album, but Epic Records decided against it. In August 1990, Hugh Cornwell abruptly left Stranglers to pursue a solo career, following the band's failure to attain a tour in the US.[46] In his autobiography, Cornwell stated that he felt that the Stranglers were a spent force creatively, and cited various examples of his increasingly acrimonious relationship with his fellow band-members, particularly Burnel.

Post-Cornwell era (1990s)

Following the departure of Cornwell, CBS-Sony dropped the Stranglers from their roster. The remaining members recruited John Ellis, who had had a long-standing association with the band. He had opened for them in the 1970s as a member of The Vibrators, filled in for Cornwell during his time in prison for drug possession in 1980, worked with Burnel and Greenfield in their side-project Purple Helmets, and been added to the Stranglers' line-up as a touring guitarist a short time before Cornwell's departure. Burnel and Ellis briefly took over vocal duties (for one television appearance on The Word) before enlisting Paul Roberts, who sang on most songs live, even those originally sung by Burnel.

This line-up recorded four albums: Stranglers in the Night (1992), About Time (1995), Written in Red (1997) and Coup de Grace (1998).

2000s resurgence and reversion to a four-piece

In 2000, Ellis left the band and a new guitarist, Baz Warne, was recruited.

The Stranglers achieved something of a critical and popular renaissance in 2004[47][48] with the album Norfolk Coast and a subsequent sell-out tour, together with their first Top-40 hit (No. 31 UK) in fourteen years, "Big Thing Coming". The album also included Tuckers Grave about a Somerset cider house named after the victim of a suicide in a nearby farm which members of the band now occupied. In 2005, Coast to Coast: Live on Tour was released, the live album contained songs recorded during their tour the previous year. On their sellout UK tour they were supported by Goldblade.

In May 2006, Roberts left the band, and the Stranglers were now back to a four-piece line-up: Burnel, Black, Greenfield and Warne, with the lead vocals shared between Warne and Burnel. In concert, Burnel returned to singing the songs he originally recorded as lead vocalist, and Warne sang the numbers originally led by Hugh Cornwell.

Suite XVI, the follow-up album to Norfolk Coast, was released in September 2006 (the title is a pun on "Sweet 16" and also a reference to the fact that it was the band's sixteenth studio album) and continued the band's resurgence. Although partly a return to the band's heavier punk roots, the album featured a typically idiosyncratic mixture of musical styles which included a country and western style Johnny Cash pastiche/homage "I Hate You".

In 2007 it was reported that drummer Black was suffering from atrial fibrillation, an ailment which subsequently forced him to miss a number of shows, particularly where extended travel was required. On such occasions Ian Barnard, Black's drum technician, deputised.[49]

On 4 November 2007, the band (with Black) played a sell-out gig at the Roundhouse in Camden, North London, marking the thirtieth anniversary of their headline run at the same venue in 1977. The set list was the same as the 1977 concert, with the addition of a couple of more recent songs as a final encore. The event is recorded on the DVD Rattus at the Roundhouse.[50]

2010–present

The Stranglers continued their resurgence in 2010 starting with an extensive UK tour, including a sold-out return to the Hammersmith Apollo in March, their first visit there since 1987. They were supported on the 16-date UK tour by Max Raptor.[51]

A double CD compilation album, Decades Apart, containing a selection of tracks from the full career of the band, including at least one from each of their sixteen studio albums and two new tracks, "Retro Rockets" and "I Don't See the World Like You Do", was released in February 2010. The download version of Decades Apart included an unreleased recording from 1978, "Wasting Time", inspired by the band's 'Rock Goes To College' experience earlier that year;[30] this track, originally titled "Social Secs" was never released, and the music ended up being reversed and released as "Yellowcake UF6", the B-side to "Nuclear Device" in 1979.

Across the summer the band played a number of festivals, including Weyfest and Glastonbury and T in the Park in the UK and Oxegen 2010 in Ireland, and concerts in Japan, Greece, Poland, Slovakia and Bulgaria. The band also released a new live album and DVD, recorded at the Hammersmith Apollo in May 2010.[51] In March 2011, the band completed another UK tour. Burnel's long-term friend, Wilko Johnson, was invited to bring The Wilko Johnson band on the tour. In April, the band began touring Europe, with many gigs and major festivals lined up for the entire year.

 
Jim Macaulay, the touring drummer, in 2013

On 23 September 2012, the band returned to Looe, Cornwall, fronted by Warne and Burnel. The band had originally spent time in Looe writing Suite XVI.[52]

Giants was released in 2012, including the first instrumental on an album since "Waltzinblack" on The Gospel According to The Meninblack. The "deluxe" version consisted of a second disc containing tracks from the 'Weekend in Black' acoustic session in November 2011.

2013 saw the band play a full UK tour, with Black playing the second half at most gigs (Jim Macaulay taking the first half).[53] Several festivals were booked for 2013, including a session at the BBC Proms on 12 August. For the North American tour Black was not present, with Macaulay playing the entire show.[54][55]

In 2014, the band celebrated their fortieth birthday with a Ruby Tour, throughout the UK and Europe. In 2015, the March On tour had 18 dates around the United Kingdom. Where stage space allowed, a second drum kit was set up and Jet Black appeared for a set of four songs. A proposed gig in Moscow was announced and then cancelled due to visa difficulties, but a mini-tour of the UK took place in July. The band then played gigs throughout Europe, ending in November. In April 2016, they returned to New Zealand and Australia.[56]

Black ceased performing on stage with the band after some partial-set appearances in March 2015, although he remained an official member of the band until his retirement was confirmed in 2018.[57] Jim Macaulay appeared in a promotional photograph alongside Burnel, Greenfield and Warne for the first time in 2016 and has since been named as an official member of the group.

In August 2017, the Stranglers performed at an outdoor concert in Hull as part of the UK City of Culture celebrations. In July 2018, the band played at the LUNAR festival in Tanworth-in-Arden.

During an interview with Janice Long, on BBC Radio Wales, on 10 July 2018, Burnel revealed that Black continued to be in fairly poor health and had suffered a minor stroke earlier in 2018.

Greenfield died on 3 May 2020, at the age of 71. He had contracted COVID-19 while in hospital for a heart ailment.[58] The band's eighteenth studio album Dark Matters, features contributions from Greenfield and is also their first release following the retirement of Jet Black.[57] It was released on 10 September 2021,[59] and entered the UK album chart at number 4, the highest position since Feline in 1983 and their first top 10 position since 1990.[60]

In November 2021, the band began their last full tour with their new keyboard player, Toby Hounsham, who played with Rialto, an English rock band formed in London in 1997, and subsequently Mungo Jerry for live and studio work since the early 2000s. The tour is currently scheduled to continue through the UK and several European countries, ending in Sweden in October 2022.

After many years of health problems, Black died on 6 December 2022 at the age of 84.[61]

Legacy

"No More Heroes" was featured in the first episode of the BBC series Ashes to Ashes and in the third episode of the second season of the American TV show Queer as Folk.[62] The title was used for the 2007 video game No More Heroes, created by Japanese designer Goichi Suda,[63] who is also a fan of the band.[64] Despite the name, the cost of licensing the track prevented the song from appearing in the game.[64] A cover version by Violent Femmes was used for the film Mystery Men.

The song "Let me Down Easy" was used as the opening credits theme for Hardcore Henry. "Peaches" appeared in the title sequence of Sexy Beast by director Jonathan Glazer, and was used as the closing theme for many of Keith Floyd's cooking programmes, with the instrumental track 'Waltzinblack' providing the title music.

"Golden Brown" featured in Guy Ritchie's film Snatch (2000), was used extensively in the Australian film He Died with a Felafel in His Hand. It also featured in the Black Mirror episode "Metalhead"[65] and in Season 2 of The Umbrella Academy.[citation needed]

More songs by the Stranglers have been licensed for use in commercials than from any other punk band.[66] "Always The Sun" was used for a tv and radio campaign by insurance company Sun Alliance in 1992 and 1993.[67] "Peaches" has appeared on adverts for Adidas, HSBC, Tesco and JBL speakers[66] while "Waltzinblack" has been used for Vodafone and the Carphone Warehouse.[66] In 2002 "Hanging Around", a track from the 1977 debut album Rattus Norvegicus which was never released as a single, was used in several French Wonderbra commercials[66] featuring model Inna Zobova.[68] "Golden Brown" was used to advertise Ore-Ida french fries and later used in Waitrose's 2008 Christmas campaign.[66]

Tori Amos covered "Strange Little Girl" on her 2001 Strange Little Girls album.[69]

Members

Current members

  • Jean-Jacques Burnel – bass, backing vocals (1974–present), lead vocals (1974–1990, 2006–present)
  • Baz Warne – guitar, backing vocals (2000–present), lead vocals (2006–present)
  • Jim Macaulay – drums, percussion, backing vocals (2018–present, touring musician: 2012–2018)[70][71]
  • Toby Hounsham – keyboards, backing vocals (2021–present)

Former members

  • Jet Black – drums, percussion (1974–2018; semi-retired from touring 2007–2018; died 2022)[72]
  • Hugh Cornwell – lead and backing vocals, guitar (1974–1990)
  • Hans Wärmling – keyboards, backing vocals, guitar (1974–1975; died 1995)
  • Dave Greenfield – keyboards, backing and lead vocals (1975–2020; died 2020)
  • John Ellis – guitar, backing vocals (1990–2000)
  • Paul Roberts – lead vocals (1990–2006)

Former touring musicians

  • Ian Barnard – drums, percussion (2007–2012)

(In the late 1980s, the Stranglers regularly featured a 3-piece brass section in their live line-up.)

Timeline

Discography

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stranglers, this, article, about, punk, rock, band, true, crime, podcast, stranglers, podcast, english, rock, band, emerged, punk, rock, scene, scoring, singles, albums, date, career, spanning, five, decades, stranglers, longest, surviving, bands, have, origin. This article is about a punk rock band For the true crime podcast see Stranglers podcast The Stranglers are an English rock band who emerged via the punk rock scene Scoring 23 UK top 40 singles and 19 UK top 40 albums to date in a career spanning five decades the Stranglers are one of the longest surviving bands to have originated in the UK punk scene The StranglersThe Stranglers performing in Chicago in 2013Background informationOriginGuildford Surrey EnglandGenresPunk rock 1 pub rock 2 new wave 2 post punkYears active1974 1974 presentLabelsUnited ArtistsA amp MLibertyEMIEpicStiffCastle CommunicationsMembersJean Jacques Burnel Baz Warne Jim Macaulay 3 Toby HounshamPast membersJet Black Hugh Cornwell Hans Warmling Dave Greenfield John Ellis Paul RobertsWebsitewww wbr thestranglers wbr co wbr ukFormed as the Guildford Stranglers in Guildford Surrey in early 1974 4 they originally built a following within the mid 1970s pub rock scene While their aggressive no compromise attitude had them identified by the media with the emerging UK punk rock scene that followed their idiosyncratic approach rarely followed any single musical genre and the group went on to explore a variety of musical styles from new wave art rock and gothic rock through the sophisti pop of some of their 1980s output They had major mainstream success with their 1982 single Golden Brown Their other hits include No More Heroes Peaches Always the Sun Skin Deep and Big Thing Coming The Stranglers early sound was driven by Jean Jacques Burnel s melodic bass but also gave prominence to Dave Greenfield s keyboards Their early music was also characterised by the growling vocals and sometimes misanthropic lyrics of both Burnel and Hugh Cornwell 5 Over time their output gradually grew more refined and sophisticated Summing up their contribution to popular music critic Dave Thompson later wrote From bad mannered yobs to purveyors of supreme pop delicacies the group was responsible for music that may have been ugly and might have been crude but it was never ever boring 6 Keyboard player Dave Greenfield died on 3 May 2020 after contracting COVID 19 while receiving treatment for a heart ailment 7 The remaining band members completed a new album recorded with Greenfield Dark Matters following his death and confirmed that they would proceed with their Final Full UK Tour initially announced in January 2020 in his honour 8 9 Contents 1 History 1 1 Formation and mainstream success 1974 1979 1 2 Second phase 1979 1982 1 3 New label and sound 1983 1990 1 4 Post Cornwell era 1990s 1 5 2000s resurgence and reversion to a four piece 1 6 2010 present 2 Legacy 3 Members 3 1 Timeline 4 Discography 5 References 6 Sources 7 External linksHistory EditFormation and mainstream success 1974 1979 Edit Before forming the band Jet Black real name Brian Duffy was in his mid 30s A successful businessman Black at one point owned a fleet of ice cream vans 10 and later ran The Jackpot 11 a Guildford off licence that would serve as the base for the early Stranglers 12 13 Black had also been a semi professional drummer in the late 1950s and early 1960s after attaining a degree of financial stability due to his business successes by 1974 he decided to return to drumming and to assemble a band The Stranglers came to be an influential band in the British punk and new wave scene of the mid 70s Black drove the ice cream vans that would serve as the Stranglers early tour buses 14 The group that eventually formed between 1974 and 1975 was originally named The Guildford Stranglers but they soon dropped the geographical prefix and the name The Stranglers was registered as a business on 11 September 1974 by Black 4 15 The other original personnel were bass player vocalist Jean Jacques Burnel guitarist vocalist Hugh Cornwell and keyboardist guitarist Hans Warmling who was replaced by keyboardist Dave Greenfield within a year 16 None of the band came from the Guildford area apart from Burnel who was originally from Notting Hill but moved to Godalming during his childhood Black is from Ilford Cornwell from Kentish Town and Greenfield from Brighton while Warmling came from Gothenburg and returned there after leaving the band Cornwell was a blues musician before forming the band and had briefly been a bandmate of Richard Thompson 17 Burnel had been a classical guitarist who had performed with symphony orchestras 18 Black s musical background was as a jazz drummer 19 and Dave Greenfield had played at military bases in Germany 20 Their early influences included pre punk psychedelic rock bands such as the Doors 21 22 and the Music Machine From 1976 the Stranglers became associated with the burgeoning punk rock movement due in part to their opening for the first British tours of American punks the Ramones and Patti Smith 23 24 Notwithstanding this association some of the movement s champions in the British musical press viewed the band with suspicion on account of their age and musical virtuosity and the intellectual bent of some of their lyrics However Burnel was quoted saying I thought of myself as part of punk at the time because we were inhabiting the same flora and fauna I would like to think the Stranglers were more punk plus and then some 25 The band s early albums Rattus Norvegicus No More Heroes and Black and White all released within a period of 13 months were highly successful with the record buying public and singles such as Peaches Something Better Change and No More Heroes became instant punk classics Meanwhile the band received a mixed reception from some critics because of their apparent sexist and racist innuendo However critic Dave Thompson argued that such criticism was oblivious to the satire and irony in the band s music writing the Stranglers themselves revelled in an almost Monty Python esque grasp of absurdity and in particular the absurdities of modern men s talk 26 These albums went on to build a strong fan following but the group s confrontational attitude towards the press was increasingly problematic and triggered a severe backlash when Burnel a martial arts enthusiast punched music journalist Jon Savage during a promotional event 27 In February 1978 the Stranglers began a mini tour playing three secret pub gigs as a thank you to those venues and their landlords for their support during the band s rise to success The first was at The Duke of Lancaster in New Barnet on Valentine s Day 28 with further performances at The Red Cow Hammersmith and The Nashville Rooms West Kensington in early September 29 During their appearance at the University of Surrey on the BBC TV programme Rock Goes to College on 19 October 1978 the group walked off stage because an agreement to make tickets available to non university students had not been honoured 30 In the later half of the 1970s the Stranglers toured Japan twice joining the alternative music scene of Tokyo which was evolving from the punk sound of Kyoto based band Murahachibu 村八分 Ostracism whose music influence spread to Tokyo in 1971 The Stranglers were the only foreign band to take part in a landmark scene focused around S KEN Studio in Roppongi and The Loft venues in Shinjuku and Shimokitazawa from 1977 to 1979 31 The scene included bands such as Friction and they became friends with the band Red Lizard who they invited back to London where the band became known as Lizard 32 In 1979 while still in Japan Burnel also became close friends with Keith co founder and drummer for ARB At the end of 1983 ARB s bassist was imprisoned leaving the band with a problem for their forthcoming tour Burnel took time out from the Stranglers to fly out to Japan at short notice and join ARB to cover the tour including appearing at the All Japan Rock Festival at Hibaya park becoming the first non Japanese to ever appear at the festival 33 34 35 Burnel toured with ARB for 5 weeks and played on two studio tracks Yellow Blood and Fight it Out both of which appeared on the RCA Victor ARB album Yellow Blood 36 Second phase 1979 1982 Edit In 1979 one of the Stranglers two managers advised them to break up as he felt that the band had lost direction but this idea was dismissed and they parted company with their management team 37 Meanwhile Burnel released an experimental solo album Euroman Cometh backed by a small UK tour and Cornwell recorded the album Nosferatu in collaboration with Robert Williams Later that year the Stranglers released The Raven which heralded a transition towards a more melodic and complex sound which appealed more to the album than the singles market The songs on The Raven are multi layered and musically complicated and deal with such subjects as a Viking s lonely voyage heroin addiction genetic engineering contemporary political events in Iran and Australia and extraterrestrial visitors Meninblack The Raven saw a definite transition in the band s sound The Hohner Cembalet so prominent on the previous three albums was dropped and Oberheim synthesizers used instead whilst acoustic piano was used on Don t Bring Harry A harmonizer was used to treat Burnel s vocal on the track Meninblack the recording of which led to Martin Rushent who had produced their earlier albums walking out leaving the band to co produce the album themselves with Alan Winstanley 38 We re never going to use a producer again They are just shitty little parasites All they re good for is telling jokes And we know better jokes than any of em Hugh Cornwell NME November 1979 39 The Raven was not released in the US instead a compilation album The Stranglers IV was released in 1980 containing a selection of tracks from The Raven and a mix of earlier and later non album tracks The Raven sold well reaching No 4 in the UK Albums Chart it spawned one top 20 single Duchess with Nuclear Device reaching No 36 and the EP Don t Bring Harry reaching No 41 This was followed by a non album single Bear Cage backed with Shah Shah a Go Go from The Raven A 12 inch single the band s first containing extended mixes of both tracks was also released but Bear Cage also only managed No 36 in the charts Following the success of the Stranglers previous four albums they were given complete freedom for their next The Gospel According to the Meninblack a concept album exploring religion and the supposed connection between religious phenomena and extraterrestrial visitors It was preceded by a single Who Wants the World which didn t appear on the album and only just made the top 40 The album also included Waltzinblack which became adopted as a theme by TV chef Keith Floyd The Gospel According to The Meninblack was very different from their earlier work and alienated many fans 40 It peaked on the UK albums chart at No 8 their lowest placing to date and in 1981 was widely considered an artistic and commercial failure 40 The track Two Sunspots had been recorded during the Black And White sessions in 1978 but was shelved until 1980 when it was rediscovered and placed on The Gospel According to the Meninblack The Meninblack track from The Raven is the Two Sunspots soundtrack slowed down 38 After a slow start the Stranglers recovered their commercial and critical status with La Folie 1981 which was another concept album this time exploring the subject of love At first La Folie charted lower than any other Stranglers studio album and the first single taken from it Let Me Introduce You to the Family only charted at No 42 However the next single was Golden Brown The song is an evocative waltz time ballad with an extra beat in the fourth bar Cornwell said the lyrics were about heroin and also about a girl She was of Mediterranean origin and her skin was golden brown 41 It became their biggest hit charting at No 2 in the UK Singles Chart It was also named as record of the week on BBC Radio 2 despite the station not previously playing music associated with the punk genre It remains a radio staple to this day Following this success La Folie recharted at No 11 in the UK albums chart Tramp was originally thought to be the ideal follow up single to Golden Brown however La Folie was chosen after Burnel convinced his bandmates of its potential 42 Sung in French it received negligible airplay and charted at No 47 Shortly afterwards the Stranglers left EMI As part of their severance deal the Stranglers were forced to release a greatest hits collection The Collection 1977 1982 43 The track listing for The Collection 1977 1982 included the new single Strange Little Girl which had originally been recorded on a demo in 74 and rejected by EMI It became a hit charting at No 7 in July 1982 New label and sound 1983 1990 Edit Following the Stranglers return to commercial success many record companies lined up to sign them Virgin Records was the most likely choice but Epic Records made a last minute offer and secured the Stranglers services The Stranglers once again had complete artistic freedom and in 1983 released their first album for Epic Feline which included the UK No 9 hit European Female The album was another change in musical direction this time influenced by European music It was the first Stranglers album to feature acoustic guitars and it was on this album that Jet Black began to use electronic drum kits 44 Hugh Cornwell stated On La Folie there were three tracks Golden Brown La Folie and How to Find True Love and Happiness in the Present Day that sort of pointed us away from what we had been doing It was strange doing those tracks because we d never really attempted that quite minimalistic recording technique And when we started writing for Feline things were coming out the same way 45 The album gained much critical success but fell well short of La Folie in terms of sales and failed to produce another hit after European Female Nonetheless Feline broke the Stranglers in Europe and reached No 4 in the UK chart in January 1983 1984 saw the release of Aural Sculpture which consolidated the band s success in Europe and established them in Oceania It included the UK No 15 hit Skin Deep which also reached No 11 in Australia and No 19 in New Zealand and Top 30 in the Netherlands This was their first album to feature the three piece horn section which was retained in all their subsequent albums and live performances until Hugh Cornwell s departure in 1990 Aural Sculpture was only a moderate success in the UK album charts peaking at No 14 in November 1984 Their 1986 album Dreamtime dealt with environmental concerns among other issues Its signature track and another radio staple for many years to come was Always the Sun a No 15 hit in France and No 16 hit in Ireland No 21 in Australia No 30 in the UK and No 42 in the Netherlands The only Stranglers album to chart in the US Dreamtime was again only a moderate hit in the UK reaching No 16 in November 1986 The Stranglers final album with Cornwell 10 was released in 1990 This was recorded with the intention of building on their cult status in America Following the success of their cover of The Kinks All Day and All of the Night a UK No 7 hit in 1988 the Stranglers released another 60s cover 96 Tears as their first single from 10 it reached No 17 in the UK Despite this success the follow up single Sweet Smell of Success only reached No 65 Man of the Earth which the band had high hopes for was due to be the third single from the album but Epic Records decided against it In August 1990 Hugh Cornwell abruptly left Stranglers to pursue a solo career following the band s failure to attain a tour in the US 46 In his autobiography Cornwell stated that he felt that the Stranglers were a spent force creatively and cited various examples of his increasingly acrimonious relationship with his fellow band members particularly Burnel Post Cornwell era 1990s Edit Following the departure of Cornwell CBS Sony dropped the Stranglers from their roster The remaining members recruited John Ellis who had had a long standing association with the band He had opened for them in the 1970s as a member of The Vibrators filled in for Cornwell during his time in prison for drug possession in 1980 worked with Burnel and Greenfield in their side project Purple Helmets and been added to the Stranglers line up as a touring guitarist a short time before Cornwell s departure Burnel and Ellis briefly took over vocal duties for one television appearance on The Word before enlisting Paul Roberts who sang on most songs live even those originally sung by Burnel This line up recorded four albums Stranglers in the Night 1992 About Time 1995 Written in Red 1997 and Coup de Grace 1998 2000s resurgence and reversion to a four piece Edit In 2000 Ellis left the band and a new guitarist Baz Warne was recruited The Stranglers achieved something of a critical and popular renaissance in 2004 47 48 with the album Norfolk Coast and a subsequent sell out tour together with their first Top 40 hit No 31 UK in fourteen years Big Thing Coming The album also included Tuckers Grave about a Somerset cider house named after the victim of a suicide in a nearby farm which members of the band now occupied In 2005 Coast to Coast Live on Tour was released the live album contained songs recorded during their tour the previous year On their sellout UK tour they were supported by Goldblade In May 2006 Roberts left the band and the Stranglers were now back to a four piece line up Burnel Black Greenfield and Warne with the lead vocals shared between Warne and Burnel In concert Burnel returned to singing the songs he originally recorded as lead vocalist and Warne sang the numbers originally led by Hugh Cornwell Suite XVI the follow up album to Norfolk Coast was released in September 2006 the title is a pun on Sweet 16 and also a reference to the fact that it was the band s sixteenth studio album and continued the band s resurgence Although partly a return to the band s heavier punk roots the album featured a typically idiosyncratic mixture of musical styles which included a country and western style Johnny Cash pastiche homage I Hate You In 2007 it was reported that drummer Black was suffering from atrial fibrillation an ailment which subsequently forced him to miss a number of shows particularly where extended travel was required On such occasions Ian Barnard Black s drum technician deputised 49 On 4 November 2007 the band with Black played a sell out gig at the Roundhouse in Camden North London marking the thirtieth anniversary of their headline run at the same venue in 1977 The set list was the same as the 1977 concert with the addition of a couple of more recent songs as a final encore The event is recorded on the DVD Rattus at the Roundhouse 50 2010 present Edit The Stranglers continued their resurgence in 2010 starting with an extensive UK tour including a sold out return to the Hammersmith Apollo in March their first visit there since 1987 They were supported on the 16 date UK tour by Max Raptor 51 A double CD compilation album Decades Apart containing a selection of tracks from the full career of the band including at least one from each of their sixteen studio albums and two new tracks Retro Rockets and I Don t See the World Like You Do was released in February 2010 The download version of Decades Apart included an unreleased recording from 1978 Wasting Time inspired by the band s Rock Goes To College experience earlier that year 30 this track originally titled Social Secs was never released and the music ended up being reversed and released as Yellowcake UF6 the B side to Nuclear Device in 1979 Across the summer the band played a number of festivals including Weyfest and Glastonbury and T in the Park in the UK and Oxegen 2010 in Ireland and concerts in Japan Greece Poland Slovakia and Bulgaria The band also released a new live album and DVD recorded at the Hammersmith Apollo in May 2010 51 In March 2011 the band completed another UK tour Burnel s long term friend Wilko Johnson was invited to bring The Wilko Johnson band on the tour In April the band began touring Europe with many gigs and major festivals lined up for the entire year Jim Macaulay the touring drummer in 2013 On 23 September 2012 the band returned to Looe Cornwall fronted by Warne and Burnel The band had originally spent time in Looe writing Suite XVI 52 Giants was released in 2012 including the first instrumental on an album since Waltzinblack on The Gospel According to The Meninblack The deluxe version consisted of a second disc containing tracks from the Weekend in Black acoustic session in November 2011 2013 saw the band play a full UK tour with Black playing the second half at most gigs Jim Macaulay taking the first half 53 Several festivals were booked for 2013 including a session at the BBC Proms on 12 August For the North American tour Black was not present with Macaulay playing the entire show 54 55 In 2014 the band celebrated their fortieth birthday with a Ruby Tour throughout the UK and Europe In 2015 the March On tour had 18 dates around the United Kingdom Where stage space allowed a second drum kit was set up and Jet Black appeared for a set of four songs A proposed gig in Moscow was announced and then cancelled due to visa difficulties but a mini tour of the UK took place in July The band then played gigs throughout Europe ending in November In April 2016 they returned to New Zealand and Australia 56 Black ceased performing on stage with the band after some partial set appearances in March 2015 although he remained an official member of the band until his retirement was confirmed in 2018 57 Jim Macaulay appeared in a promotional photograph alongside Burnel Greenfield and Warne for the first time in 2016 and has since been named as an official member of the group In August 2017 the Stranglers performed at an outdoor concert in Hull as part of the UK City of Culture celebrations In July 2018 the band played at the LUNAR festival in Tanworth in Arden During an interview with Janice Long on BBC Radio Wales on 10 July 2018 Burnel revealed that Black continued to be in fairly poor health and had suffered a minor stroke earlier in 2018 Greenfield died on 3 May 2020 at the age of 71 He had contracted COVID 19 while in hospital for a heart ailment 58 The band s eighteenth studio album Dark Matters features contributions from Greenfield and is also their first release following the retirement of Jet Black 57 It was released on 10 September 2021 59 and entered the UK album chart at number 4 the highest position since Feline in 1983 and their first top 10 position since 1990 60 In November 2021 the band began their last full tour with their new keyboard player Toby Hounsham who played with Rialto an English rock band formed in London in 1997 and subsequently Mungo Jerry for live and studio work since the early 2000s The tour is currently scheduled to continue through the UK and several European countries ending in Sweden in October 2022 After many years of health problems Black died on 6 December 2022 at the age of 84 61 Legacy Edit No More Heroes was featured in the first episode of the BBC series Ashes to Ashes and in the third episode of the second season of the American TV show Queer as Folk 62 The title was used for the 2007 video game No More Heroes created by Japanese designer Goichi Suda 63 who is also a fan of the band 64 Despite the name the cost of licensing the track prevented the song from appearing in the game 64 A cover version by Violent Femmes was used for the film Mystery Men The song Let me Down Easy was used as the opening credits theme for Hardcore Henry Peaches appeared in the title sequence of Sexy Beast by director Jonathan Glazer and was used as the closing theme for many of Keith Floyd s cooking programmes with the instrumental track Waltzinblack providing the title music Golden Brown featured in Guy Ritchie s film Snatch 2000 was used extensively in the Australian film He Died with a Felafel in His Hand It also featured in the Black Mirror episode Metalhead 65 and in Season 2 of The Umbrella Academy citation needed More songs by the Stranglers have been licensed for use in commercials than from any other punk band 66 Always The Sun was used for a tv and radio campaign by insurance company Sun Alliance in 1992 and 1993 67 Peaches has appeared on adverts for Adidas HSBC Tesco and JBL speakers 66 while Waltzinblack has been used for Vodafone and the Carphone Warehouse 66 In 2002 Hanging Around a track from the 1977 debut album Rattus Norvegicus which was never released as a single was used in several French Wonderbra commercials 66 featuring model Inna Zobova 68 Golden Brown was used to advertise Ore Ida french fries and later used in Waitrose s 2008 Christmas campaign 66 Tori Amos covered Strange Little Girl on her 2001 Strange Little Girls album 69 Members EditCurrent members Jean Jacques Burnel bass backing vocals 1974 present lead vocals 1974 1990 2006 present Baz Warne guitar backing vocals 2000 present lead vocals 2006 present Jim Macaulay drums percussion backing vocals 2018 present touring musician 2012 2018 70 71 Toby Hounsham keyboards backing vocals 2021 present Former members Jet Black drums percussion 1974 2018 semi retired from touring 2007 2018 died 2022 72 Hugh Cornwell lead and backing vocals guitar 1974 1990 Hans Warmling keyboards backing vocals guitar 1974 1975 died 1995 Dave Greenfield keyboards backing and lead vocals 1975 2020 died 2020 John Ellis guitar backing vocals 1990 2000 Paul Roberts lead vocals 1990 2006 Former touring musicians Ian Barnard drums percussion 2007 2012 In the late 1980s the Stranglers regularly featured a 3 piece brass section in their live line up Timeline EditDiscography EditMain article The Stranglers discography Rattus Norvegicus 1977 No More Heroes 1977 Black and White 1978 Live X Cert live 1979 The Raven 1979 The Gospel According to the Meninblack 1981 La Folie 1981 Feline 1983 Aural Sculpture 1984 Dreamtime 1986 All Live and All of the Night live 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