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  • 17 May 13
Hot Press meets The Stranglers
Hot Press meets The Stranglers
Rory Stokes
Rory Stokes

Controversial, irreverent, combative, they were the punk band you couldn’t ignore. As they approach their 40th anniversary, The Stranglers remain as vital as ever. Singer and bassist Jean-Jacques Burnel talks exclusively to Hot Press about his difficult relationship with ex-frontman Hugh Cornwell, drummer Jet Black’s health woes and their place in British rock history...

It’s been a long, strange trip for The Stranglers. Part of the first wave of British punk, they wrote some of the era’s defining hits – still resonant songs such as ‘Golden Brown’, ‘No More Heroes’, ‘Peaches’ and ‘Always The Sun’.

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