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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


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

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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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.


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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.


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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 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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Kindle $11.99 Rate this book The Stranglers: Song by Song, 1974-1990 Hugh Cornwell, Jim Drury 4.07 119 ratings12 reviews The Stranglers is a unique perspective on one of the most extraordinary and inflammatory English rock bands. Genres MusicNonfictionPunk 288 pages, Paperback First published January 1, 2002 Book details & editions About the author


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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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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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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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The Stranglers' Hugh Cornwell on his first guitar, hating rehearsals and his favourite Tele By David Mead ( Guitarist ) published 8 April 2016 Discussing the big questions He's the guitarist from The Stranglers and a successful solo performer, but how will he deal with the 10 nice 'n' sleazy questions we ask everyone?


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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.


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Stranglers singer/guitarist Hugh Cornwell turned 28 in 1977 - year zero for punk. Pistols singer Johnny Rotten and Damned singer Dave Vanian both turned 21. Stranglers drummer Jet Black (real name Brian Duffy) was touching 40 at the time. Sadly we lost him in late 2022. But it wasn't just their age differences. It was their baaad attitude.


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Hugh Cornwell: punk legend, reformed drugs hell-raiser and qualified academic biochemist. The former Stranglers frontman has earned himself many diametrically opposed labels. Indeed, while he was chatting to me from his London home, I couldn't help but notice his seamless movement between curmudgeon and charm and back again. The first, I expected - [โ€ฆ]


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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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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.