Remembering David Paul Greenfield, English keyboardist, singer and songwriter for the punk rock band The Stranglers, born on this day in 1949, Brighton, England
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44 years ago
JJ Burnel and Hugh Cornwell of The Stranglers onstage, London, February 1981.
Photo by Adrian Boot
“We were never a punk band,”
Remembering Jet Black who died today 6th December 2022
"Exactly 50 years ago today, on 11th September 1974, The Stranglers registered their name at Companies House and the band was officially born."
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A special kind of dream then, a junkie's dream – and you thought the song was just about a tanned young thing!
The Stranglers, "Golden Brown" (1981)
Oh, and you're gonna have a punk rock band toy with a harpsichord …
42 years ago today
"Strange Little Girl" is a song by the Stranglers, released on this day in 1982.
The music video featured the band and a group of punkgirls in London.
Bekannt sind sie für Golden Brown, Skin Deep, No Mercy oder Always the Sun. Als Lieblingslied begleitet mich aber die Eiskönigin der Stranglers durch die Jahrzehnte. Stimme, Stimmung, Lässigkeit, Bläser, Pausen, einfach alles :
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Fun fact: Der Keyboarder hatte einen eher selten verwendeten, auf einem Acorn B laufenden Sequenzer im Einsatz. Zwischen TI 99/4A und Atari ST war auch bei mir der Acorn B der Homecomputer der Wahl.