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The Stranglers
Profile and Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, November 1976
AMONG THE hordes of bands currently playing London's pub and club circuit, the Stranglers are leading contenders to break out and hit unsuspecting mass audiences and ...

The Stranglers: La Folie
Review by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, March 1982
WANT TO FEEL prematurely old? This, if you can believe it, is the Stranglers' seventh British album. While most alumni of the '77 punk explosion are ...

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Flamin' Groovies/The Ramones/The Stranglers: Roundhouse, London
Live Review by Max Bell, NME, July 1976
MAYBE IT WAS no accident that the hottest, steamiest, dirtiest night of the year was reserved for July 4. It's not every day that we get ...

Patti Smith: Once Is Not Enough (ungh! choke! etc)
Live Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, October 1976
Patti Smith/The Stranglers: Hammersmith Odeon, London ...

The Stranglers
Interview by Chris Salewicz, NME, 1977
Beneath this middle class suburban casual wear lurk a bunch of REALLY NICE GUYS. So why are they banned from Top Of The ...

The Stranglers
Book Excerpt by Caroline Coon, '1988: The New Wave Punk Rock Explosion', 1977
THE STRANGLERS slogged through over four hundred gigs in two years building up an ever-increasing following. They did not jump on the punk bandwagon but they ...

The Stranglers: IV Rattus Norvegicus (United Artists)****
Review by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, April 1977
I THINK this album will surprise a lot of people. After all (by chance, coincidence and a spot of media manipulation, no less) the Stranglers have ...

The Stranglers/The Jam/Cherry Vanilla: The Roundhouse, London
Live Review by Nick Kent, NME, April 1977
THE JAM WERE scarcely halfway through their set at half past six when the geezer at the door of the Roundhouse told the 300-plus still stranded ...

The Stranglers: IV Rattus Norvegicus
Review by Kris Needs, ZigZag, May 1977
HERE COME the Stranglers with forty minutes of brain-rapingly original spewings like you ain't gonna hear anywhere else. ...

The Stranglers: IV Rattus Norvegicus (United Artists)
Review by John Tobler, ZigZag, June 1977
THERE'S LITTLE DOUBT that while the first batch of British new wave albums were by the more outrageous elements, and somehow seemed to rely on volume ...

The Stranglers
Report and Interview by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, September 1977
TW STUDIOS are tucked away behind a drab shopfront off London's Fulham Palace Road. To gain entry you have to go round the side, through a ...

The Stranglers Do The Pose
Comment by Peter Silverton, Trouser Press, October 1977
EXTREME REACTIONS to the Stranglers are not unusual. Take the case of a mate (well, acquaintance) of mine, Dick O'Dell, tour/road manager for Alex Harvey. Since ...

The Stranglers: Brunel University, Middlesex
Live Review by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, October 1977
OF COURSE, what with all those bad reviews the Stranglers have picked up since the release of the new album No More Heroes, you might expect ...

The Stranglers: No More Heroes
Comment by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, December 1977
IT'S SO HARD to decode the Stranglers. After you've gone through the easy observations about Dave Greenfield's keyboard sound and its relationship to Ray Manzarek, all ...

Stranglers: Black & White
Review by Gary Sperrazza!, Trouser Press, July 1978
THERE'S A STORY floating around the A&M offices concerning the Stranglers that will probably never see print in the English pop ...

The Stranglers
Report and Interview by Chris Salewicz, NME, September 1978
"BUT WHY," asks the New York groupie journalist, "do The Stranglers make such inflammatory remarks about Americans? I really don't understand it," she concludes, glancing over ...

The Stranglers, Peter Gabriel, The Skids et al: Punishment Park
Live Review by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, September 1978
IF NOTHING ELSE, at least the sun shone undisturbed for the duration of the Stranglers' long-awaited London gig on Saturday afternoon ("They're trying to strangle us," ...

Stranglers: Visas Revoked!
Live Review by j. poet, Creem, November 1978
HUGH CORNWELL and Jean Jacques Burnel, guitarist and bassist for the Stranglers, recently made headlines in Britain by beating the shit out of a critic who ...

Stranglers: Something Better Change?
Interview by 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 Who / The Stranglers/ AC/DC /Nils Lofgren: Wembley Stadium, London
Live Review by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, August 1979
NOT ONE OF the great Wembley encounters, we decided, as the car crept another couple of feet in the late Saturday evening ...

Who, Stranglers: Laser Laser On The Wall Who Are Complacent After All
Live Review by Paul Morley, NME, August 1979
THE MIDDLE OF the evening and it's getting quite dim. The Who are playing a new song; at least, I take it to be a new ...

The Stranglers: Live at the Whisky, Los Angeles
Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, November 1980
THE STRANGLERS, the British band which opened a four-night stand at the Whisky Friday night, didn’t waste any time in letting the packed house know who ...

The Stranglers
Profile and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, December 1980
THIRD OF FOUR nights at the Whisky and the audience is still dribbling during the opening act. The Humans are on IRS and could just as ...

The Stranglers: Playful Mates
Live Review by Richard Cook, NME, February 1982
The Stranglers: Hemel Hempstead Pavilion

AS A LIVE proposition, The Stranglers have eluded me until now. The exceptional crunch of this show made me wonder why. ...

The Stranglers: Fey Bikers On Azur
Report and Interview by Simon Witter, NME, October 1987
THE PHONE RANG. It was the chief. "Be at the airport tomorrow morning. The Stranglers. Marseilles. Bikers' convention. JJ Burnel burning up the track on a ...

The Stranglers: Come and Join the Unruly Escapades
Retrospective and Interview by Keith Cameron, Mojo, August 2002
HANS WARMLING was fed up of life in the ice cream van. He'd come to England from his homeland of Sweden to play guitar and write ...