The Stranglers

The Stranglers are a British rock music group, formed on September 11 1974 in Guildford. Original personnel were singer/guitarist Hugh Cornwall, keyboardist/guitarist Hans Warmling, (replaced within 2 years by keyboardist Dave Greenfield),

The Stranglers are a British rock music group, formed on September 11 1974 in Guildford. Original personnel were singer/guitarist Hugh Cornwall, keyboardist/guitarist Hans Warmling, (replaced within 2 years by keyboardist Dave Greenfield), bass guitarist Jean Jacques Burnel and drummer Jet Black (a.k.a. Brian Duffy).

They began as a sinister sounding, hard-edged pub rock group, but eventually branched out to explore other styles of music. The Stranglers were, beginning in 1976, tangentially assocated with punk rock, due in part to their opening for The Ramones' first British tour. The Stranglers were also associated with new wave musicas well as gothic rock, but their idiosyncratic approach never fit completely within any musical genre.