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Signed colour 10" x 8" photo
of The Stranglers The
photo is hand signed in
blue marker pen.
Price: £29.99
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The Stranglers
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Biography
The Stranglers are an English rock music group. Scoring some 23 UK top 40
singles and 17 UK top 40 albums to date in a career spanning five decades, the
Stranglers are the longest-surviving and most "continuously successful" band to
have originated in the UK punk scene of the mid to late 1970s. Beginning life as
the Guildford Stranglers on 11 September 1974 in Guildford, Surrey, they
originally built a following within the mid-'70s pub rock scene. While their
aggressive, no-compromise attitude identified them as one of the instigators of
the 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 to the
sophisticated pop of some of their 1980s output.
They had major mainstream success with their single "Golden Brown". Their other
hits include "No More Heroes", "Peaches", "Always the Sun", "Skin Deep" as well
as many other groundbreaking and popular songs.
The Stranglers' early sound was driven by Jean-Jacques Burnel's pulsating bass,
but also proudly gave prominence to Dave Greenfield's keyboards at a time when
the instrument was seen as unfashionable. Their early music was also
characterised by the growling vocals and sometimes misanthropic lyrics of both
Jean-Jacques Burnel and Hugh Cornwell. Over time, their output gradually grew
more refined and sophisticated.
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