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Showing posts with label Stranglers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stranglers. Show all posts

Saturday, March 27, 2021

In The 1970s Stranglers

Time to go back to the punk era in the 1970s and one of the best punk groups to come from that time. The Stranglers were formed in Guildford in the mid-70s as the Guildford Stranglers. It is fair to say the group were very aggressive and would probably not have agreed with punk label that they got at the time.

The original members in the first couple of years consisted of Jet Black the drummer, Jean Jaques Brunel on bass. Hugh Cornwall use to be in Fairport Convention, Hans Warmling was the founder member of the group  and died in a boat accident in 1995. Dave Greenfield was the last member.

The group had its first top twenty hit in 1977 with Peaches with one of the most famous intros in the 1970s.. The song had so many sexual terms that the single was highly edited for radio play and in some cases was banned.


This was followed by a top ten hit in the same year called Something Better Change from the album No More Heroes. This became the very next single too and the song even mentions Shakespeare in the lyrics. 

1978 saw the group remain high in the British single charts with a fast moving song called 5 Minutes which peaked at No.11. The song is about a real rape that took place in 1977 at one of the band members accommodation.    

Staying in the sleazy area they came up with another single in the same year called Nice And Sleazy from the album Black and White. The last single of the year was Walk On By.

Moving on to 1979 and the last top twenty in the 1970s was Duchess. The video was banned by the BBC because the band had dressed up as choir boys.

   


Monday, February 1, 2021

In Memory Hal David

Hal David was born in New York in 1921 and in 1957 he met Burt Bacharach and between them they wrote some of the greatest standards in the 1960s and in the 1970s. The 1960s hits included Casino Royale,  What's New Pussycat, Alfie and dozens and dozens more.

As early as 1972 he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall Of Fame and of course many of their songs won Grammy Awards.

Below are just a few of the classic songs that has made their unique music writing relationship a corner stone of popular music.

(They Long)To Be Close To You a 1970 hit by Johnny Mathis and and for the Carpenters.

Walk On By by Stranglers from 1978.

  

You'll Never Get To Heaven by Stylistics
I'll Never Fall In Love Again by Dionne Warick

Saturday, August 8, 2020

Top 50 UK Singles Chart - 6 August 1977

Top 50 Chart - 6 August 1977 Donna Summer tops the charts with I Feel Love New entries from Mink Deville, Jigsaw, Steve Gibbons, Carly Simon and the Ramones Climbers include Bay City Rollers, Danny Williams, Stranglers and Smokie And other rock, disco, pop and punk classics Please FOLLOW, FAVOURITE and REPOST if you like this chart Chart used http://www.officialcharts.com/charts/...