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The Stranglers

December 2022

  • Jet Black, second left, with fellow members of the Stranglers (left to right) Jean-Jacques Burnel, Dave Greenfield and Hugh Cornwell.

    Jet Black obituary

  • The Stranglers in 1980

    The Stranglers drummer Jet Black dies after ‘years of ill health’ aged 84

August 2021

  • Punk’s dada surrealists … the Stranglers at the Nashville Rooms, London, in 1977.

    ‘We were called heretics and ostracised’: the Stranglers on fights, drugs and finally growing up

    They brawled with the Sex Pistols, gaffer-taped a journalist to the Eiffel Tower and got thrown out of Sweden twice. Now, for their 18th album and final tour, the punks seem to be maturing at last

February 2021

  • Danny L Harle

    Danny L Harle: Harlecore review – big, dumb escapist fun

    Go clubbing from room to virtual room courtesy of the producer and assorted mystery guests

May 2020

  • Alexis Petridis

    Dave Greenfield: putting beauty at the rotten heart of the Stranglers

    Alexis Petridis
  • The Stranglers in 1982: Jet Black, Hugh Cornwell, Jean-Jacques Burnel and Dave Greenfield.

    Stranglers’ keyboardist Dave Greenfield dies after contracting Covid-19

March 2020

  • The Stranglers … from left, Jean-Jacques Burnel, Jet Black, Dave Greenfield, Hugh Cornwell.

    How we made
    The Stranglers: how we made European Female

    ‘I was going out with a Parisian ballerina and projected my idea of Europe on to her. It was passionate, destructive relationship – that’s why we’re all in cages in the video’

January 2019

  • The Stranglers

    Closure of local music venues is 'catastrophe', say the Stranglers

    Band members speak out on return to Guildford pub where they played first gig in 1974

August 2016

  • Donald Trump

    Spotify news playlist
    From Trump's press blues to falling house price prices: a Spotify playlist to make sense of the headlines

    As Donald Trump gets shirty with the fourth estate, students and teachers brace themselves for A-level results, and house prices fall (kind of), here’s a soundtrack to this week’s news

March 2016

  • The Sex Pistols playing in Copenhagen in July 1977.

    Happy Birthday Punk: the British Library celebrates 40 years of anarchy and innovation

    To mark the movement’s anniversary, the library is unpacking its punk archive. The show’s curator talks us through some of the highlights

January 2015

  • Punks at the Vortex club, London, late 1970s

    From the Guardian archive
    From the archive, 10 January 1977: Something rotten in British music

    Originally published in the Guardian on 10 January 1977: Robin Denselow charts the new wave of British punk culture, from The Damned at Stiff Records to The Stranglers and The Vibrators

October 2014

  • Pet Shop Boys

    Music blog
    The 50 best covers of all time: do you agree with the latest poll?

    Always on My Mind by the Pet Shop Boys has been voted the best ever cover song in a recent BBC census, which lists the best 50. So what did the listeners miss?

March 2014

  • The Stranglers

    The Stranglers review – 'Unexpectedly poignant'

  • The Stranglers’ Jean-Jacques Burnel and Hugh Cornwell playing in Battersea Park in London in 1978

    The Stranglers on 40 years of fights, drugs, UFOs and 'doing all the wrong things'

August 2013

  • The Stranglers Roundhouse

    Tom Service on classical music
    For one night only ... the Stranglers and London Sinfonietta together at last

    The punk icons, along with Cerys Matthews and Steve Lamacq, will share the stage with the orchestra in a Proms first

July 2012

  • Sex Pistols

    From the Guardian archive
    From the archive, 16 July 1977: This is punk rock in the making

    16 July 1977: If you're a punk rock performer, star even, you can piss next to the fans in the loo and not get mobbed. Elvis couldn't have done that

November 2007

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    Roundhouse, London

March 2004

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    Shepherd's Bush Empire, London

November 2002

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    Newcastle Opera House

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