<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color:#99cccc;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2e61bcf9-5449-40ad-a6ee-0165612c8726/23794EBA-0BB2-46C2-9071-E37036B061B4/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.punk77.co.uk/groups/Stranglers.htm" href="http://www.punk77.co.uk/groups/Stranglers.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.punk77.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.punk77.co.uk/groups/Stranglers.htm"><FONT size="6" face="Arial Black" color="#ffffff">  The Stranglers<A name="top"></A></FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.punk77.co.uk/groups/Stranglers.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.punk77.co.uk/img/3E79B358-BEA8-4BB2-B5A8-DF28701E9B5C" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.punk77.co.uk/groups/Stranglers.htm"><FONT face="Arial" color="#ffffff">"Rock 'n' roll is about cocks and jiving and the odd bloody nose...and about people like us talking seriously about the social order." <FONT size="1">JJ Burnel</FONT> <FONT size="1">NME 10.2.79</FONT></FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.punk77.co.uk/groups/Stranglers.htm"><STRONG><FONT size="2" face="Comic Sans MS" color="#ffffcc">T</FONT></STRONG><FONT size="2" face="Comic Sans MS" color="#ffffcc"><STRONG>here will never be another group like the Stranglers.</STRONG></FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.punk77.co.uk/groups/Stranglers.htm"> Formed in 1974 as The Guildford Stranglers they performed hundreds of gigs to little response. With the arrival of Punk and a new atmosphere sweeping music however, their style of playing and songs soon found a new audience.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.punk77.co.uk/groups/Stranglers.htm">Left of stage JJ Burnel on the "barracuda" Bass. To the right Hugh Cornwell on guitar. Further right on keyboards Dave Greenfield. And at the back Jet Black on drums.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.punk77.co.uk/groups/Stranglers.htm">Sadly The Stranglers have never been given the credit they deserve, largely being forgotten in books written about this time by the same journalists who pilloried them or being summarily dispatched as karate kicking, organ grinding violent / sexists.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.punk77.co.uk/groups/Stranglers.htm">These pages tell a different story.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/23794EBA-0BB2-46C2-9071-E37036B061B4/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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