Almost 50 years ago, one band released a controversial hit that became one of their most iconic tracks to date. In spring ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Either way, the Beeb disapproved. Taken from The Stranglers’ 1977 debut album Rattus Norvegicus, Peaches was very much in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But it wasn’t just their age differences. It was their baaad attitude. Johnny Pistol may have invented the spiky punk hairdo, ...

Forty-five years ago, a new musical and cultural movement was sweeping the UK Snarling and spitting, and afforded endless column inches by a mock-outraged tabloid press, 1977 was when punk rock gave a ...

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Five-CD boxset from punk years shows the Stranglers were the outsider’s outsiders... From the start, The Stranglers never quite fitted in. They were punk enough to get banned from venues around ...

Jet Black, aged 78, their original drummer, once told me he is the oldest rock star still playing. Jet doesn't tour anymore but is still in the band. Nowadays he lets Jim Macauley do the hard work.

"It's even worse than the old days," Jean-Jacques Burnel decides with weary humour, as The Stranglers shudder to a halt for a second time. Tonight is supposed to be historic, returning to the ...

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