The Stranglers Fun Facts, Quotes and Tweets
26th February 2014
Quote: "Hugh (Cornwell) has become a very bitter bloke. I suspect he thought - as I did - that when he left, The Stranglers would implode. But we're playing bigger venues, and he's playing pubs. If I were in his shoes I'd be p**sed off." The Stranglers bassist Jean-Jacques Burnel has no sympathy for his former bandmate.
21st August 2011
Fact: Former The Stranglers frontman Hugh Cornwell can add novelist to his resume - he's written his first book about a paranoid artist who is convinced an art dealer is plotting to kill him.
5th June 2008
Quote: "I don't listen to music." The Stranglers former frontman HUGH CORNWELL makes a bizarre claim.
2nd October 2007
Quote: "His situation reminds me a bit of (OSAMA) BIN LADEN. He had no idea the 9/11 attacks were going to be successful. He woke up the next day and thought, 'Now what do I do?'" Former The Stranglers frontman HUGH CORNWELL on Malcolm McLaren's ill-formed plans for punk after the Sex Pistols started making waves.
31st August 2006
Quote: "A common misconception of me is that I'm violent. But in a truer life I would have been a professional karate teacher. Or a mafia hitman." The Stranglers bassist JEAN-JACQUES BURNEL fears he missed his vocation.
30th August 2006
Quote: "Every 16 years we get a new lead singer. In 16 years, it might be me." The Stranglers bassist JEAN-JACQUES BURNEL eyes the position of frontman.
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