After a slow start, the Stranglers recovered their commercial and critical status with La Folie ( 1981 ) which was another concept album, this time exploring the subject of love.

The Black Sheep Brewery sponsors popular annual folk festivals ; previous performers have included Hugh Cornwell ( of The Stranglers ).

* The Stranglers, Goldie Lookin ' Chain and Glenn Tilbrook in 2004.

The 24th edition of Parkpop on 27 June 2004 featured The Gathering, Beth Hart, The Nits, Outlandish and was headlined by The Stranglers

Norfolk Coast is the fifteenth album by The Stranglers that was released on 16 February 2004.

Since leaving The Stranglers, Cornwell has released several solo albums including Wolf ( 1988 ) produced by Ian Ritchie, Wired ( 1993 ), Guilty ( 1997 ), Hi Fi ( 2000 ), Footprints in the Desert ( 2002 ), Mayday ( 2002 ), In the Dock ( 2003 ), and Beyond Elysian Fields ( 2004 ).

On July 4, they played with the Flamin ' Groovies and The Stranglers before a crowd of 2, 000 at the Roundhouse.

A few even longer-active bands including Surrey neo-mods The Jam and pub rockers The Stranglers and Cock Sparrer also became associated with the punk rock scene.

From 1976 the Stranglers became associated with the burgeoning punk rock movement, due in part to their opening for the first British tours of American punks The Ramones and Patti Smith.

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.

The Stranglers ' final album with Cornwell, 10, was released in 1990.

He had opened for them in the 1970s as a member of The Vibrators, filled in for Cornwell during his time in prison for drug possession in 1980, worked with Burnel and Greenfield in their side-project Purple Helmets, and been added to the Stranglers ' line-up as a touring guitarist a short time before Cornwell's departure.

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.

2010 for the Stranglers continued their recent resurgence, starting with an extensive UK tour, including a sold-out return to the Hammersmith Apollo in March, their first visit there since 1987.

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

Early examples of punk rock in Japan include SS, The Star Club, The Stalin, Inu, Gaseneta, Bomb Factory, Lizard ( who were produced by the Stranglers ) and Friction ( whose guitarist Reck had previously played with Teenage Jesus and the Jerks before returning to Tokyo ) and The Blue Hearts.

The move saw two changes: the scope of the show was expanded nationwide, with a different region visited each episode ; and the theme tune was changed from No More Heroes by The Stranglers to a twee and plinky number, more in keeping with the programme genre.

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 ).

* In the 1970s The Stranglers performed their song " No More Heroes ", with Hugh Cornwell deliberately miming terribly.

Alison Moyet ( Alf ), The Art of Noise, The Assembly, The Associates, Aztec Camera, Big Country, Bon Jovi, The Boomtown Rats, Cardiacs, Cliff Richard, Cocteau Twins, The Cramps, Culture Club, Cyndi Lauper, The Damned, Dennis Brown with Sly & Robbie, Depeche Mode, Dexys Midnight Runners, Die Ärzte, Dire Straits, Divine, Stephen Duffy, Duran Duran, Echo & the Bunnymen, Vow Wow, Elvis Costello, The Fall, Fatal Charm, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Charged G. B. H., Gregory Isaacs & The Roots Radics, Gun Club, Hanoi Rocks, Heaven 17, Howard Jones, The Human League, Icicle Works, Iggy Pop, INXS, Judas Priest, Killing Joke, Level 42, Lloyd Cole & the Commotions, Madness, Madonna, Magnum, Meat Loaf, Motörhead, Ofra Haza, Paul Young, Pet Shop Boys, The Pretenders, The Proclaimers, Propaganda, The Psychedelic Furs, The Rainmakers, Robert Palmer, R. E. M., Scraping Foetus off the Wheel, Silent Running, Simple Minds, Simply Red, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Soft Cell, Spear of Destiny, SPK, Squeeze, The Style Council, Tears for Fears, Terence Trent D ' Arby, Terry & Gerry, The Smiths, The Cult, The Cure, The Dream Academy, The Jam, The Mission, The Pogues, The Pretenders, The Stranglers, The Toy Dolls, Then Jericho, Thin Lizzy, Thomas Dolby, Tina Turner, Twisted Sister, U2, Ultravox, Voice of the Beehive, Tom Waits, Wall of Voodoo, Wham !, Whitney Houston, XTC, Yazoo, ZZ Top.

Hugh Cornwell played his last gig with the Stranglers on 13 August 1990.

* Interview with Wilko Johnson and Jean Jacques Burnel of The Stranglers

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

Aligning themselves closely with the Rock Against Racism organisation and featuring in its first music festival in early 1978, they chose to tour with sympathetic elements of the punk movement, including the Stranglers, XTC etc.

Williams began her career on television, with a second-season role in an episode of the CBS series Beauty and the Beast and as the first victim of the Hillside Stranglers in NBC's made-for television film The Case of the Hillside Stranglers.

* Collection ( The Stranglers album )

* The band The Stranglers included a song on their 1984 album Aural Sculpture called " Punch & Judy.

* The Sessions ( album ), a 1995 compilation album by English punk / rock music group the Stranglers

The Raven was not released in the U. S .; instead a compilation album The Stranglers IV was released in 1980, containing a selection of tracks from The Raven and a mix of earlier and later non-album tracks.

Following the success of The Stranglers ' previous four albums they were given complete freedom for their next, The Gospel According to The Meninblack, a concept album exploring religion and the supposed connection between religious phenomena and extraterrestrial visitors.

At first La Folie charted lower than any other Stranglers studio album, and the first single taken from it, " Let Me Introduce You to the Family ", only charted at No. 42.

The Stranglers once again had complete artistic freedom and in 1983 released their first album for Epic, Feline, which included the UK No. 9 hit " European Female ".

It was the first Stranglers album to feature acoustic guitars, and it was on this album that Jet Black began to use electronic drum kits.

Nonetheless Feline broke the Stranglers in Europe and reached No. 4 in the UK chart in January 1983 ( their last studio album to break the UK Top 10 ).

The only Stranglers album to chart in the U. S., Dreamtime was again only a moderate hit in the UK, reaching No. 16 in November 1986.

" 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.

This resulted in the band's inclusion, alongside the likes of Wilko Johnson, 999, The Only Ones, the Saints, The Stranglers, and XTC, on a double album of recordings from the festival.

* Feline ( album ), the seventh studio album by the Stranglers

The album includes a cover of " Get a Grip ( On Yourself )", originally by The Stranglers.

* IV ( The Stranglers album ), 1980

* Black and White ( The Stranglers album ), The Stranglers third studio album