Robin Williams’ wholesome friendship with The Stranglers
Music, jokes, and a shared love of punk rebellion.
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Dave Greenfield’s pre-Stranglers bubblegum single
The Italian sleeve of the Blue Maxi’s 1970 single (via Discogs) Keyboardist Dave Greenfield had been playing in rock and roll bands for over a…
That time Robert Fripp and Peter Hammill played in the Stranglers
JJ Burnel, Richard Jobson and John Ellis on the cover of ‘The Stranglers and Friends Live in Concert’ Busted for possession of various drugs late…
The Stranglers’ secret recordings as Celia and the Mutations, 1977
During the summer of ’77, the new wave band Celia and the Mutations released its first single, an update of Tommy James and the Shondells’…
When DEVO met the Stranglers
The Stranglers took a short break in between Black and White and The Raven. While JJ Burnel worked on Euroman Cometh, Hugh Cornwell went to…
Twenty hilarious minutes of Hugh Cornwell from The Stranglers insulting the audience
The Stranglers arrested for inciting a riot in Nice, France, 1980 One of my favorite Stranglers tracks belongs to the spoken word genre. The B-side…
Punk poet John Cooper Clarke sings ‘MacArthur Park’ with the Stranglers’ Hugh Cornwell
Richard Harris’ seven-and-a-half-minute reading of Jimmy Webb’s “MacArthur Park” is not for me. I like watching Harris on-screen well enough, and I like Jimmy Webb’s…
The Stranglers’ 1979 cricket match against the UK music press, featuring Lemmy and a bag of drugs
On September 16, 1979, the Stranglers held a cricket match to promote their new album The Raven and raise money for Capital Radio’s charity Help…
The Stranglers appear in a BBC documentary about surrealism, 1978
George Melly (1926-2007) I have a hard time picturing the Dangerous Minds reader who wouldn’t fall in love with the rakish, bisexual jazz singer and…
The Stranglers’ live performance of ‘Nice ‘n’ Sleazy’ with a bunch of strippers from 1978
Jean-Jacques Burnel and Hugh Cornwell of The Stranglers on the stage at Battersea Park in London, September 16th, 1978 Back in 1977, the members of…