Hugh Cornwell Live And Alone

The original guitarist, singer and main songwriter from the punk rock band the Stranglers, Hugh Cornwell has enjoyed massive success with ten hit albums and twenty-one top forty singles in the 17-year period that he was in the band.

The Stranglers many hit singles, include Peaches, No More Heroes, Golden Brown, Always The Sun, Grip, Nice N’ Sleazy, Duchess, Walk On By, Strange Little Girl, and Skin Deep.

The Stranglers were, along with the Sex Pistols, the Clash and the Damned, at the epicentre of the heady days of early punk in London. The life of the Stranglers, one of the most notorious and gifted rock groups of the 70s and 80s, included drug busts, fights, prison terms and, in one case, the tying up of journalists!!!

Throughout this time Hugh Cornwell encountered a host of extraordinary people that are now household names, such as Malcolm McClaren, Joe Strummer, Kate Bush, and Debbie Harry, and during his live shows he recounts some of the outrageous times he lived through with them.

The Stranglers' Greatest Hits album sold one million copies in the UK on its release in 1990, and the band’s most successful song, Golden Brown, featured on the soundtrack to Guy Ritchie’s Hollywood blockbuster Snatch, whilst Peaches appeared in the opening sequence of the hit film Sexy Beast, as well as in the Nike TV ad for 2002’s Football World Cup. Hugh’s songs maintained their association with cups when Wonderbra used Hanging Around in their winter TV campaign in the same year. HSBC bank are currently utilising Peaches in an extensive UK TV campaign, and Vodaphone have chosen Waltz In Black for another.