ArtistInfo

The Stranglers

Band, *1974 GB, Guildford
Alternative and Rock

The Stranglers are an English rock band who emerged via the punk rock scene.Scoring some 23 UK top 40 singles and 17 UK top 40 albums to date in a career spanning four decades, the Stranglers are one of the longest-surviving and most "continuously successful" bands to have originated in the UK punk scene of the mid to late 1970s. Beginning life as the Guildford Stranglers on 11 September 1974 in Guildford, Surrey, they originally built a following within the mid-1970s pub rock scene. While their aggressive, no-compromise attitude identified them as one of the instigators of the UK punk rock scene that followed, their idiosyncratic approach rarely followed any single musical genre and the group went on to explore a variety of musical styles, from new wave, art rock and gothic rock through t

Members

	Hugh Cornwell voc, g *1949 GB
	J.J. Burnel b, voc GB
	Dave Greenfield key, voc *1949 GB
	John Ellis g, voc GB
	Baz Warne voc, g *1964 GB
	Brian Duffy
	Paul Roberts voc, perc *1959 GB
	Hans Wärmling g, sax, p, key 1943-1995 SE