Stranglers: Something Better Change?
Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 1979
Lots of people would like to start by changing the Stranglers. Surprise, surprise...they've done it themselves. Hugh Cornwell tells HARRY DOHERTY how they've dragged themselves from the brink of the abyss.
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