With more than twenty Top 40 UK singles and twenty UK Top 40 albums, The Stranglers have been preaching the gospel according to the Meninblack since 1974. 

 

The band continues to play live to their legions of fans around the world, and to celebrate their 50 years in the business, The Stranglers - Live (Excerpts) is a fully authorised history of the band as told in the words of fans. 

 

With a foreword by legendary Stranglers bassist and original member JJ Burnel, and with memories from the Hope & Anchor pub in Islington in 1976 through to their 2022 UK tour, this is the Stranglers’ story told in the words of fans.

 

Hardback.

 

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Richard Houghton lives in Manchester. The author of more than 20 books on music, including authorised fan histories of Jethro Tull, Simple Minds, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, The Stranglers, Shaun Ryder, Fairport Convention and The Wedding Present, Richard created the People’s History series. He is the Managing Director of Spenwood Books.