The Stranglers Documentary Part 2

BBC Choice documentary the story of The Stranglers, charting the band's rise to fame in the 1980s to present day. Despite the departure of lead singer and frontman Hugh Cornwell in 1990, the band continue to perform successfully to thousands of fans all over the world. Interviews with members of The Stranglers. Presented by jazz singer and art critic, George Melly. Producer/Director: Angus McIntyre

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[johnanthonyp]

I believe the critic was Jon Savage. The bitter little creep completely omitted the Stranglers from BBC programme on punk a few years back. The email site was completely bombarded by complaints about the matter. I mean, the Slits had a feature and they missed these guys out. Its scandalous. Talk about trying to rewrite history.

[rickk4art]

The thing is -THEY WERE and ARE the best PUNK/New Wave/Rock band ever! I was fortunate enough to see them in the early 80s and met them and did an interview published in local paper

[insensiblegradations]

So lovely to see the late great George Melly present this documentary on The Stranglers, who in my not very humble opinion were one of the greatest British bands of all time - musically and lyrically. The Stranglers lyrics were far in advance of any punk band of the time, full of fascinating obscure slang and poetic turns of phrase and even references to Japanese martial arts and literature. The Stranglers with Hugh Cornwell were fantastic and still inspire me after all these years.

[MoveOverCasanova]

strange little girl was at their peak -- all albums (except no more heroes which is a bit primitve to me) from 77 to 82 are phantastic, then came the weak "feline", but aural sculpture and dreamtime were beautiful albums and genuine stranglers -- 10 was no stranglers album to me anymore -- but until then they were just phenomenal!

[MoveOverCasanova]

@TheNaomiengland i guess you saw these pictures of the guitar player - typical thin man fat willie, no body hair, dense black pubic bush -- the bass player was seen in the bath tub toying with a girl, if we saw the same book xD

[polycera]

@johnanthonyp 

[johnanthonyp]

@jonblazeinc Well, thank you jon. I will champion these unsung heroes til the day I die. Without these guys there would have been no Joy Division or New Order for the priviiged middle classes to fawn over. That bass sound was hugely copied by lesser artists.They were massively influential albeit uncredited.

[jonblazeinc]

@johnanthonyp that makes sense....i remember the punk episode of sounds of the 70s when stranglers were shown on it, then few years later when repeated they had been wiped out completely from the episode i had watched

[TheNaomiengland]

I've seen naked photos of the bass player. I was impressed

[zofo666]

5 Minutes was THE song that encompassed everything about punk,anger and what that time meant,and it stills sends shivers down my spine!