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Fairport Convention and The Stranglers is one of the more unlikely collaborations you'll hear this year!
Hugh Cornwell hooks up with members of Fairport Convention for a charity single cover of Tobacco Road
JJ Burnel on how Caravan inspired a Stranglers track
After falling in love with In The Land Of Grey And Pink, the bassist created Down In The Sewer as a response – and if that makes his band prog, he’s fine with it
The Stranglers' 1978 trip to the Eiffel Tower was a memorable day out
UK punks The Stranglers were not a band to be messed with
The Stranglers' albums you should definitely own
Too punk to be pop, too loads of other things to be punk, The Stranglers had dozens of hits by doing it their own, unique, way
"Our new record label thought we were awful, and they hated Golden Brown. They said, you're finished": Jean-Jacques Burnel on why The Stranglers' best-known song was "a threat to the powers that be"
In February 1982, Golden Brown became The Stranglers' highest-charting UK single, eventually selling over 500,000 copies. Not bad for a song their label didn't want to release
"For one whole year, me and some of the other guys decided to take heroin to see if it inspired us creatively": JJ Burnel on The Stranglers' unorthodox heroin experiment
Public Service Announcement: don't do this
“Though quintessentially punk records, their first two albums featured tricky time signatures, a four-part musical suite, and songs that clocked in at seven minutes”: The Stranglers were always more prog than you thought
Third album Black And White is Exhibit A in a case that also includes Robert Fripp, Peter Hammill, Steve Hillage and Nik Turner
The story of The Stranglers' controversial No More Heroes album: "We got away with murder"
Hugh Cornwell tells the story of the Stranglers' summer-of-punk-classic second album No More Heroes: "We definitely couldn’t get away with that now"
