THE STRANGLERS WALK ON BY ORIGINAL HAND SIGNED 7" TANK

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THE STRANGLERS WALK ON BY / OLD CODGER / TANK ORIGINAL HAND  SIGNED 7"

1978 UNITED ARTISTS RECORDS  UP 36429

SIGNED IN BLACK MARKER PEN BY.. HUGH CORNWELL , JJ BURNEL ,  JET BLACK & DAVE GREENFIELD 

ALL SIGNATURES ARE 100% ORIGINAL

 LOOKS ABSOLUTLEY STUNNING FRAMED

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*** PLEASE NOTE THAT THE FRAME IS NOT INCLUDED ***

The group was originally called The Guildford Stranglers,[1] and operated out of The Jackpot, a Guildford off-licence run by their drummer Jet Black (real name Brian Duffy). Other original personnel were bass player/vocalist Jean Jacques Burnel, guitarist/vocalist Hugh Cornwell and keyboardist/guitarist Hans Wärmling, but Hans was replaced by keyboardist Dave Greenfield within a year.[3] None of the band actually came from Guildford – Black is from Ilford, Burnel from Notting Hill, Cornwell from Kentish Town and Greenfield from Brighton, while Wärmling came from Sweden and returned there after leaving the band.

Cornwell had been a blues musician prior to forming the band and had briefly been a bandmate of Richard Thompson,[4] Burnel had been a classical guitarist who had performed with symphony orchestras,[5] Jet Black was a former jazz drummer,[6] and Dave Greenfield had played at military bases in Germany.[7] Their early influences included pre-punk psychedelic rock bands, such as The Doors, and The Music Machine.

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.[8][9] Notwithstanding this association, some of the movement's champions in the British musical press viewed the band with suspicion on account of their age and musical virtuosity and the intellectual bent of some of their lyrics. However, Burnel was quoted saying, "I thought of myself as part of punk at the time because we were inhabiting the same flora and fauna ... I would like to think The Stranglers were more punk plus and then some."[10]

The band's early albums, Rattus Norvegicus, No More Heroes and Black and White received a mixed reception from the press because of their apparent sexist and racist innuendo. Dave Thompson wrote that "the Stranglers themselves revelled in an almost Monty Python-esque grasp of absurdity (and, in particular, the absurdities of modern 'men's talk')."[11] These albums went on to build a strong fan-following, but the group's confrontational attitude toward the press was increasingly problematic and triggered a severe backlash when Burnel, a martial arts enthusiast, punched music journalist Jon Savage during a promotional event.[12]

During their 1978 appearance at the University of Surrey on the BBC TV programme Rock Goes To College, the group walked off stage because an agreement to make tickets available to non-university students had not been honoured.[13]

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