Burnel, now 72, says from his home in the south of France as he prepares for yet another world tour with The Stranglers. “I mean you want to explore the limits of your limited talent so to speak.

Now, is that regarded as being true prog ... “I got into listening to prog rock through Dave Greenfield, the Stranglers keyboard player. When he joined the band about a year after me, he ...

BBC Choice documentary the story of The Stranglers charting the bands rise to fame in the 1980s to present day Despite the departure of lead singer and frontman Hugh Cornwell in 1990 the band ...

In truth, punk as it is now understood was a shapeless, ill-defined thing. It was an energy. The Stranglers were fortunate enough to have an album and a half worth of songs ready to go when the ...