The Stranglers: Song By Song
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Publisher Description
The Stranglers have outlasted and outsold virtually every other band of their era, recording ten hit albums and releasing 21 Top 40 singles. Their list of hits, including Golden Brown, were written against a background of spectacular success, dismal failure, drug dependency, financial ruin, infighting and misfortune.
As a response to David Buckley's one-sided biography of the band ("No Mercy" Hodder & Stoughton, 1997) and the band’s reticence to reveal the true meaning behind their songs, Hugh Cornwell, founding member and songwriter, sets the record straight, displaces the myths and for the first time explains the real stories behind The Stranglers, his departure and the origins of their songs.
Customer Reviews
“…BURSTING FULL OF INFORMATION“ ? NO!
This is probably a required read for any fan of The Stranglers, but…
…if you were a reader of Strangled magazine during the period of Hugh’s tenure with the group, there’s not a lot new to learn here.
The format of the book is clearly a verbatim transcript of an interview between Cornwell and the author, concerning the meaning behind every album track and single that the former lead singer and guitarist was present on - but sadly, there are no interesting and salacious revelations, to my mind at least;
I thought Cornwell’s autobiography was more interesting, and I’m not a big fan of autobiographies…
Sadly, the one thing that stuck out for me was his regular description of ‘B’-sides as ‘filler’, ‘throw away’, ‘needs more work’ and similar; I think we knew it anyway, but it’s an admission of second rate output; you don’t have to buy the book to know which ones he’s referring to; to misquote Mr Lydon, “Ever feel like you’ve been had?”