Scoring some 23 UK top 40 singles and 17 UK top 40 albums to date in a career spanning four decades, the Stranglers are the longest-surviving and most " continuously successful " band to have originated in the UK punk scene of the mid to late 1970s.

In the later half of the 1970s, The Stranglers toured Japan twice, joining the alternative music scene of Tokyo, which was evolving from the punk sound of Kyoto based band 村八分 ( Ostracism ), whose music influence spread to Tokyo in 1971.

The Stranglers were the only foreign band to take part in a landmark scene focussed around S-KEN Studio in Roppongi, and The Loft venues in Shinjuku and Shimokitazawa from 1977 to 1979.

In 1979, one of the Stranglers ' two managers advised them to break up as he felt that the band had lost direction, but this idea was dismissed and they parted company with their then current management team.

" Man of the Earth ", which the band had high hopes for, was due to be the third single from the album, however Epic Records decided against it when The Stranglers failed to secure a tour in America.

In May 2006, Roberts left the band, and The Stranglers were now back to a four-piece line-up: Burnel, Black, Greenfield and Warne, with the lead vocals shared between Warne and Burnel.

* During the 1980s, the UK band The Stranglers recorded an album called Dreamtime, with a title track inspired by the Aboriginal concept.

" You knew straight away, you either loved it or hated it, and it polarised an entire nation for that summer " Elsewhere Smith said that " the Stranglers were my favourite punk band " and that " Elvis Costello was a cut above the whole lot of them.

* May 11 – The Stranglers and support band London start a 10 week national UK tour.

Roddy Radiation fronted and worked with several bands including The Tearjerkers ( a band that he had begun in the last months of The Specials ), The Bonediggers, The Raiders and Three Men & Black which included of Jean-Jacques Burnel ( The Stranglers ), Jake Burns ( Stiff Little Fingers ), Pauline Black ( The Selecter ), Bruce Foxton ( The Jam ), Dave Wakeling ( The Beat, General Public ) and Nick Welsh ( Skaville UK ).

Now form a band ", this drawing actually originally appeared in January 1977 in another fanzine ' Sideburns ' and was later reproduced in The Stranglers ' fanzine ' Strangled '

He recorded a track called " Old Codger " with The Stranglers in 1978 specially written for him by the band.

* Jet Black, drummer and founder member of rock band The Stranglers

The bands 30th anniversary in October 2009 saw the band receiving a whole load of special congratulation messages to their official website from a varied selection of musicians including Baz Warne from The Stranglers, TV Smith from The Adverts Jake Burns Stiff Little Fingers & NOFX manager Kent Jamieson

The current lead singer / guitarist with The Stranglers Baz Warne also had a stint with the band.

Additionally, he has met The Stranglers nearly 30 times, and has had a record label named after him by the band, Psycho Records.

* The song No More Heroes, by British punk rock band The Stranglers, mentions de Hory in the line, " whatever happened to the Great Elmyr ( a )".

** The Stranglers embark on a three month nationwide tour in May They are supported by the band London.

* On 19 March 2010, British band The Stranglers recorded a live DVD entitled Live at the Apollo.

This resulted in the band ’ s inclusion, alongside the likes of Wilko Johnson, The Only Ones, the Saints, The Stranglers, X-Ray Spex, and XTC, on a hit double LP of recordings from the festival.

" Mean to Me " was a Stranglers vocal version of the song the band had previously recorded along with a cover of " Mony Mony ", both with a female singer, Celia Golin, released under the moniker " Celia and the Mutations ".

* Clubbed to Death ( The Stranglers album ), album by the English band

Hugh Cornwell, former singer-songwriter and guitarist with the group, has stated his belief that the album is the pinnacle of The Stranglers ' artistic and creative output, and he cites it as his favourite album by the band.

The Stranglers had initially been the most commercially successful band of the punk / new-wave period in Britain, but by 1981, their success had waned noticeably.

It was recorded in her presence on October 21, 1958, at Decca's Pythian Temple, with Dick Jacob, Coral-Brunswick's new head of Artists and Repertoire, serving as both producer and conductor of the 18-piece orchestra, which included members of the New York Symphony Orchestra, NBC Television's house orchestra and Abraham " Boomie " Richman, formerly of Benny Goodman's band.

For a very brief period in 1944 the Wills band included 23 members., and around mid year he toured Northern California and the Pacific Northwest with 21 pieces in the orchestra. Billboard reported that Wills outgrossed Harry James, Benny Goodman, " both Dorsies, et al.

Incidents included the killing of three members of a pop band, the Miami Showband, by a gang including members of the UVF who were also members of the local army regiment, the UDR, and in uniform at the time, and the killing by the Provisionals of eighteen members of the Parachute Regiment in the Warrenpoint Ambush-seen by some as revenge for Bloody Sunday.

* Queen ( band )' s Roger Meddows Taylor included the track " Interlude in Constantinople " on Side 2 of his debut album Fun in Space.

His bands have included Watt 4 ( 1980 ), in which he played keyboards and provided voice, Craig Charles and the Beat Burglars ( 1989 ), The Sons of Gordon Gekko ( 1989 ), where he wrote lyrics and also composed tunes for the band, and The Eye ( 2000 – 01 ), with whom he released the rock album " Giving You The Eye, Live at the Edinburgh Festival ".

When the sheriff returned to Cadillac, a force consisting of several hundred armed men was assembled ; this group reportedly included a brass band.

In the mid-1980s, the band was embroiled in an obscenity trial in the United States over the artwork of their album Frankenchrist ( 1985 ), which included the explicit titular subject of H. R. Giger's Penis Landscape.

Bowie's backing band included Peter Frampton on lead guitar.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

All of these songs included a video backdrop which the band performed in front of.

" In North America, music for the instrument is usually written in the bass clef at concert pitch ( that is, without transposition ), though treble clef euphonium parts, transposing down a major ninth, are included in much concert band music.

The backing band included Clarence White, Pete Kleinow, and Chris Etheridge.

At the time of Brown's death, his band included three guitarists, two bass guitar players, two drummers, three horns and a percussionist.

After Little Richard left Macon for Los Angeles after the release of " Tutti Frutti ", Brantley included the band at every venue Richard had performed, leading to the growth of the group's success.

Other members of Brown's band included stalwart singer and sideman Bobby Byrd, drummers John " Jabo " Starks, Clyde Stubblefield and Melvin Parker ( Maceo's brother ), saxophonist St. Clair Pinckney, trombonist Fred Wesley, guitarist Alphonso " Country " Kellum and bassist Bernard Odum.

Brown and his fellow Famous Flame, Bobby Byrd, recruited several members of the Cincinnati band, The Pacemakers, which included Bootsy Collins and his brother Phelps " Catfish " Collins, and, using some remaining members of Brown's 1960s road band and other newer musicians, dubbed the band simply as The J. B .' s.

The most important jazz guitar soloists of this period included the Manouche virtuoso Django Reinhardt, Oscar Moore who was featured with Nat “ King ” Cole ’ s trio, and Charlie Christian of Benny Goodman's band and sextet, who was a major influence despite his early death at 25.

Duke Ellington's big band had a rhythm section that included a jazz guitarist, a double bass player, and a drummer ( not visible ).

Before the end of 2008, Jeepster would also release another Belle & Sebastian compilation, The BBC Sessions, collecting the tracks that the band had recorded for the BBC in 1996, which included rarities and unreleased songs, together with live recordings from Belfast.

The American band Wampeters included a song on their Hey Judas CD that celebrates Rust as a " hero or a scourge.

Though hired to be part of the live performance group rather than as band members, these four musicians were also included in the photograph alongside the core duo on the album cover of their first album to assist in projecting an image of a group rather than a duo.

The band's line-up included keyboardist Gillian Gilbert, who returned in the band after a ten year break, and Bad Lieutenant bassist Tom Chapman in place of Peter Hook.

These events led to Owain being proclaimed Prince of Wales on 16 September 1400, by a small band of followers which included his eldest son, his brothers-in-law, and the Dean of St Asaph in the town of Corwen, possibly in the church of SS Mael & Sulien.