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Saturday Night, Sunday Morning
''Saturday Night, Sunday Morning'' is a live album by the Stranglers, released in 1993 by Castle Communications. By coincidence, it was guitarist Hugh Cornwell's last concert with the band that had been recorded for posterity. The tracks were mixed by Stuart MacMillan at Central Television Music Studio (Birmingham) in 1990. The mix session was attended by band members Jean-Jacques Burnel, Jet Black and Dave Greenfield, with Cornwell not attending. The title is a reference to the gig happening on a Saturday night and Cornwell announcing his departure the following day. It was also a title to a 1960 film. The concert was split across an album and simultaneous VHS release, which contained different track listings. Between these releases all but one track ("School Mam") played at the concert are available. The video was given a DVD release in 2000, retitled ''Live At Alexandra Palace''. In addition, a live CD single from the same concert was released in January 1991 by Epic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Stranglers
The Stranglers are an English rock band who emerged via the punk rock scene. Scoring 23 UK top 40 singles and 19 UK top 40 albums to date in a career spanning five decades, the Stranglers are one of the longest-surviving bands to have originated in the UK punk scene. Formed as the Guildford Stranglers in Guildford, Surrey, in early 1974, they originally built a following within the mid-1970s pub rock scene. While their aggressive, no-compromise attitude had them identified by the media with the emerging UK punk rock scene that followed, their idiosyncratic approach rarely followed any single musical genre, and the group went on to explore a variety of musical styles, from new wave, art rock and gothic rock through the sophisti-pop of some of their 1980s output. They had major mainstream success with their 1982 single " Golden Brown". Their other hits include " No More Heroes", " Peaches", " Always the Sun", " Skin Deep" and " Big Thing Coming". The Stranglers' early s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omnibus Press
Omnibus Press is a publisher of music-related books. It publishes around 30 new titles a year to add to a backlist of over 250 titles currently in print. History Omnibus Press was launched in 1972 as a general non-fiction publisher to complement the sheet music published and distributed by its parent company Music Sales Group. Music Sales had launched a separate company called Book Sales Ltd and the earliest Book Sales catalogue, issued in the early 70s, included compilations of underground comic strips, art and photography titles and one of the earliest books on the then newly discovered art of video. After former ''Melody Maker'' music journalist Chris Charlesworth joined as Omnibus editor in 1983, it was decided to concentrate exclusively on music books, and among its earliest acquisitions was Rock Family Trees by music archivist Pete Frame which remains in print and have been the basis of two BBC TV series. Over the succeeding decades Omnibus has published many biograph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanging Around (The Stranglers Song)
"Hanging Around" is a song by English rock band the Stranglers, released on their debut album ''Rattus Norvegicus''. Composition and release The song grew out of a bass line by Jean-Jacques Burnel to which Hugh Cornwell added lyrics. The lyrics were inspired by people who used to 'hang around' the London clubs, particularly the Nashville, where the band used to perform. The first verse focuses on "a woman in red who was always there getting drunk and passing out, which ccording to Cornwellused to make us laugh". The second verse makes reference to Earl's Court Road near the Nashville where drug hustlers hung about. The third verse refers to "a friend of ours called Garry Coward-Williams, who was always smiling, and a friend of his we called Duncan Doughnuts, who was 20 going on 40. I could never believe how old he looked. His whole manner and appearance was of a middle-aged man". For the fourth verse, Cornwell had run out of ideas, so Burnel provided the lyrics for it, whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Something Better Change (song)
"Something Better Change" is a single by The Stranglers from the 1977 album '' No More Heroes''. It made No. 9 in the UK Singles Chart. It was a double A-sided release, with the song "Straighten Out", which was a non-album track. It was covered on Stranglers' vocalist Hugh Cornwell's 2011 live solo album ''Live and Kickin' (The Dave Cash Collection)'', Morgan Fisher Stephen Morgan Fisher (born 1 January 1950) is an English keyboard player and composer, and is most known as a member of Mott the Hoople in the early 1970s. However, his career has covered a wide range of musical activities, and he is still ac ...'s 1979 conceptual cover album ''Hybrid Kids 1'' in the style of The Residents and on Columbus, Ohio band Great Plains' 1985 album ''Slaves To Rock N Roll''. Charts References {{The Stranglers The Stranglers songs 1977 singles Song recordings produced by Martin Rushent 1977 songs United Artists Records singles Songs written by Hugh Cornwell Songs written by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Wärmling
Hans Axel Wärmling (22 July 1943 – 12 October 1995) was a Swedish musician and songwriter, and was a founding member and keyboardist of the British rock band The Stranglers. He co-wrote their 1982 UK Top 10 release " Strange Little Girl". He drowned in a boating accident in 1995. Early years The Jackie Fountains Hans Wärmling was the guitar player in a rhythm and blues band called The Jackie Fountains, that formed in 1964 and played in the Gnesta area of Sweden until 1967. His brother, Peter Wärmling, became their manager and provided rehearsal facilities. In this band he was known by the nickname of 'Hasse'. Johnny Sox In 1972, a young Hugh Cornwell had travelled to Lund in Sweden and took up a position in the local university hospital whilst studying for a PhD in biochemistry.Cornwell 2004, p. 40. Cornwell became friends with Hans Wärmling who happened to be working as a nurse at the same hospital. Wärmling suggested that Hugh Cornwell could provide English lyrics to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strange Little Girl
"Strange Little Girl" is a song by the Stranglers, originally written in 1974 and re-recorded and released in the UK in 1982 as their last single while signed to Liberty Records (part of EMI). By the time of release, the band had already decided to leave the label for Epic Records, and this last single was part of the severance deal, along with the compilation album, '' The Collection 1977–1982''. Recording and release The band showed their talent for mischief in releasing "Strange Little Girl" as their last single on the label when they revealed that it had originally been written in 1974, and submitted to EMI years before the band had a recording contract. EMI had rejected the band on the basis of that demo. "Strange Little Girl" went on to peak at No. 7 in the UK Singles Chart in August 1982. The music video featured the band and a group of girl punks in London, and was shot around Cambridge Circus and Liverpool Street. Track listing # Side A – "Strange Little Girl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden Brown
"Golden Brown" is a song by the English rock band the Stranglers released as a 7-inch single on EMI's Liberty label in 1982, noted for its distinctive harpsichord instrumentation. It was the second single released from the band's sixth studio album '' La folie'' (1981) and peaked at No. 2 in the UK Singles Chart, the band's highest ever placing in that chart. It has also been recorded by many other artists. Composition The main body of the song has a triple metre waltz rhythm, with beats grouped in threes, but the instrumental parts add an extra beat to create a phrase of thirteen beats. The thirteen beats appear in the sheet music as alternating bars of and , which has also been described as three bars of followed by one bar of . This unusual pattern was characterised by musicologist and YouTuber Laurence Mason as "a wonky lopsided jazz waltz". The sheet music of "Golden Brown" is published in B-flat minor. The music was largely written by keyboardist Dave Greenfield and dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No More Heroes (song)
No More Heroes may refer to: Music * ''No More Heroes'' (album), a 1977 album by The Stranglers ** "No More Heroes" (The Stranglers song), the title track * "No More Heroes", a song by Westlife from the album ''Where We Are ''Where We Are'' is the ninth studio album by Irish boy band Westlife. It was released on 27 November 2009 in Ireland and on 30 November 2009 in the UK through S Records, RCA Records and Sony Music, the band's tenth album under them. ''Where We ...'' Video games * ''No More Heroes'' (series), the video game series ** ''No More Heroes'' (video game), a 2007 video game for the Wii *** '' No More Heroes: Heroes' Paradise'', a 2010 version of the game, for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 *** '' No More Heroes Original Sound Tracks'', a soundtrack album from the 2007 game ** Its 2010 sequel, '' No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle'' ** The 2019 game, '' Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes'' ** The 2021 sequel, '' No More Heroes III'' {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Always The Sun
"Always the Sun" is a song by English rock band the Stranglers, first released as a single on 6 October 1986, the second single from the band's ninth studio album ''Dreamtime'' (1986). A remixed version was released as a single on 24 December 1990. Both versions were Top 30 hits in the United Kingdom. "Always the Sun" was released in October 1986 in four different formats: a seven-inch single, shaped seven-inch picture disc, twelve-inch single, and as a double seven-inch single pack. Reception Despite radio play and much hype, it only reached no. 30 in the UK Singles Chart.Strong, Martin C. (2003) ''The Great Indie Discography'', Canongate, , p. 155 However, it was a hit throughout Europe (no. 15 in France, 16 in Ireland) and nearly broke the Stranglers in the United States through radio play. The song also reached no. 21 in Australia. Lead vocalist, and lead guitarist Hugh Cornwell mentioned in his book ''The Stranglers Song by Song'' that he thought it could have been as big as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudy Martinez
? and the Mysterians (or Question Mark and the Mysterians) are an American garage rock band from Bay City and Saginaw in Michigan, initially active between 1962 and 1969. Much of the band's music consisted of electric organ-driven garage rock and an enigmatic image inspired by the 1957 Japanese science fiction film ''The Mysterians''. In addition, the band's sound was also marked by raw-resonating lead vocals of "?" (Question Mark, the stage name of Rudy Martínez), making Question Mark and the Mysterians one of the earliest groups whose musical style is described as punk rock. Their music and imagery were highly influential on later bands. The band signed to Pa-Go-Go Records (based in San Antonio, Texas and run by Rudy "Tee" Gonzales) in 1966 and released its first and most acclaimed single, " 96 Tears", in the early part of that year. "96 Tears" became a number one hit on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and propelled the group to a 15-month period of national prominence. Their d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
96 Tears
"96 Tears" is a song recorded by the American garage rock band ? and the Mysterians in 1966 (''see'' 1966 in music). In October of that year, it was #1 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in the U.S. and on the ''RPM'' 100 in Canada. ''Billboard'' ranked the record as the #5 song for 1966. It is ranked #213 on the ''Rolling Stone'' list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. On November 11, 1966, the single was certified as gold by the RIAA. Background The song was written by Question Mark (Rudy Martinez) in 1962 in his manager's living room, and was recorded in Bay City, Michigan. At first, Question Mark had to insist that "96 Tears" be the A-side over "Midnight Hour". Once the issue was settled, the band recorded the single for the small Pa-Go-Go label, owned by Lilly Gonzalez. She backed the band financially, and allowed access to her personal studio in her basement. When it began doing well locally, the band took a recording to Bob Dell, the radio director in Flint, Michigan. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
