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“Höfner offered me this weird-shaped guitar. I said, ‘What the hell is that?!’ They said, ‘It doesn't have a name yet, but we want you to try it’”: Hugh Cornwell on The Stranglers’ biggest hit, hating Twin Reverbs, and his bizarro Höfner

The punk/new-wave icon admits he’s never been certain about his guitar playing, although he’s proud of the legacy he’s left in music – and he’s not finished yet

Guitar World

"There were more people there than they had ever cumulatively played to in their career at that point." The story behind the Ramones first ever UK show, on Independence Day 1976

It's now 50 years since Ramones brought their blitzkrieg bops to Britain

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The Stranglers laughed at AC/DC's long hair when they shared a stage in 1976. They weren't laughing after AC/DC played

AC/DC didn't appreciate being called "hippies" by The Stranglers, and weren't keen on being called "punks" either

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"No-one writes rock ’n’ roll better than this.” The story of the AC/DC album that true AC/DC fans love best

"We may be little, but we make a lot of noise"

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"If it ain’t fun, I ain’t doing it. I’m too old for bulls**t.” Sex Pistols featuring Frank Carter announce Anarchy In The UK tour

The Sex Pistols line up 50 years of punk celebration

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“They were my favourite band growing up. Dave was my hero, and this was his keyboard": How The Repair Shop restored The Stranglers’ vintage keyboard

It had been originally owned by the late Dave Greenfield

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“Whenever anybody says, ‘Can you just follow the root note?’ my immediate retort is, ‘Why don't you just f*** off?’”How Peter Hook re-wrote the rulebook on punk bass –and became “allergic to low notes” in the process

With Joy Division, Peter Hook’s upper-register basslines were plucked straight from a rhythm guitarist’s handbook

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"Peaches is voyeuristic, but it's not misogynistic": The meaning behind The Stranglers' controversial classic Peaches

Driven by a gritty bass riff, The Stranglers' Top 10 hit Peaches is nearly 50 years old, but it's still a must-play by today’s version of the band

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Black Sabbath - The Farewell Interview: Ozzy, Tony, Geezer and Bill, only in the new issue of Classic Rock

Also in this issue: Ghost, The Doobie Brothers, Skunk Anansie, Motörhead, Masters Of Reality, Robin Trower, Goo Goo Dolls, John Lydon, The Stranglers, When Rivers Meet and more

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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

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The Stranglers and Buzzcocks announce special UK tour

'Golden Brown' punk rockers The Stranglers have announced a tour to celebrate 51 years as a band.

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"In the early days, it was actually Oasis supporting us, but that changed very quickly. I suppose it was easy to look at what was happening to Oasis and think, ‘I want a bit of that’": Former Verve guitarist Nick McCabe on Britpop and musical inspiration

“I could never see the connection with the Verve, really," says McCabe. "I had nothing against Britpop at all and there was some amazing music that came out of it, but it wasn’t the sound that we wanted to make"

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“It became cool to slag off prog, but what do you think these punk musicians did when they got home? Listened to the bands they’d been having a go at”: 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

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‘Good evening Halifax’: how a Georgian cloth hall became one of the UK’s biggest open-air music venues

Noel Gallagher and the Stranglers are among this week’s acts at the Piece Hall, once the centre of the Yorkshire textile industry and now the UK’s go-to live venue

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“We took his trousers off, gaffer-taped him to one of the girders and left him there to be photographed by Japanese tourists.” That time The Stranglers gaffer-taped a journalist to the Eiffel Tower, 400 feet off the ground

UK punks The Stranglers were not a band to be messed with

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The venue that came back from the dead

In the late 60s, a disused Victorian railway shed in North London hosted some of the most unforgettable and legendary gigs, raves and all-night freak-outs of all time

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"Me, Bono and Bowie hijacked a Mini and drove to this restaurant where the Edge was to sing him Happy Birthday": What happened when we went record shopping with Joe Elliott

We gave Def Leppard's Joe Elliott £50

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"The force that is in this music can never be extinguished": Read the letter U2's Bono wrote to Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love's daughter Frances Bean hailing Smells Like Teen Spirit as a song that saved his life

"What a band. What a song. What a sound. What a voice."

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Hors du Temps (Suspended Time) review – lockdown memoir revives childhood bliss

Olivier Assayas’ thinly disguised autobiographical study of a film-maker’s Edenic experience during Covid isolation is a civilised pleasure

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"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

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"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

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“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

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10 terrible punk albums with one classic song

These punk albums are stinkers that only a mother could truly love, but each features one redeeming, gleaming diamond in the dirt

Evening Standard

God Save the Punks: London braces for Iggy Pop’s new festival Dog Day Afternoon

The new one-dayer at Crystal Palace Park pays homage to the spirit and legacy of punk

Daily Mirror

Security guards slammed for spraying brawlers with red paint 'that looked like blood'

A judge said that the security team who sprayed red paint at brawlers attending a Stranglers concert in Stoke-on-Trent made a bad situation worse as they thought it was blood

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