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Backlash to The Stranglers

There was a backlash to punk (or new wave) music by the 'establishment', in the wake of the Sex Pistols' infamous appearance on the Bill Grundy show (whatever it was called). Because of that, numerous venues refused to book The Stranglers (and other bands), so The Stranglers temporarily called themselves The Shakespearoes and played a few gigs under that name. I think this should be mentioned somewhere. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Taff Hewitt (talk • contribs) 00:02, 12 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

If you have sources for this information, you can add it yourself. ^electricsBahiagrass_everywhere 20:32, 14 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Though if you are going to write it I would say its more a 'moral panic around punk' than a 'backlash to punk', with the 'backlash to The Stranglers' being the 'they're not punks...they're pub rockers' trope, with The Stranglers (and The Police) being singled out as recently as Friday 6th November 2020 on BBC Four's Punk and New Wave Years with Annie Nightingale (i.e. they were a bit older than most on the punk scene and could play their instruments) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.154.173.247 (talk) 12:52, 28 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Timeline

There seems to be something up with the timeline, or at least it's not displaying properly on my device. Is anyone else getting this, and if so how do we fix it? MFlet1 (talk) 15:54, 1 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it was scrambled. The last edit (to add a header template) upset it somehow. Nimbus (Cumulus nimbus floats by) 17:45, 1 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"Golden Brown" in popular culture

"leading to Jacob Stolworthy of The Independent to claim, " 'Golden Brown' can stop being used in popular culture – its usage has officially peaked""

Who is Jacob Stolworthy and is him getting tired of "Golden Brown" relevant to a Wikipedia article about The Stranglers? Zappafripp (talk) 22:09, 30 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Walk On By picture sleeve

It would be great if someone could add a photo of the Walk On By picture sleeve to the stranglers entry on the Walk On By page. (It's above my skill level.) Nomadic Tribesman (talk) 16:18, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Robman94 (talk) 15:29, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong reference

Under Legacy section, there is a sentence claiming that No More Heroes song was featured in American TV show Queer as Folk ("No More Heroes" was featured...in the third episode of the second season of the American TV show Queer as Folk"). As reference (62), the following website is given: "Queer as Folk Music" (Princessofbabylon.com). However, this website is a hard core pornographic site laced with code that starts automatic download of malicious executable binaries for mobile devices.

I checked whether a better reference could be found. What better reference could be if not Wikipedia itself, right? So I checked the article for Queer as Folk soundtracks. Unfortunately, the article does not mention No More Heroes as part of the soundtrack of Queer as Folk TV series. I checked IMDB and few other sites and could not find any reference to no More Heroes being in Queer as Folk.

I suggest that the part of the sentence with the above described claim be removed and if not removed, at least remove the reference to Princessofbabylon.com website.

Why I don't do it? I tried similar edit in the past but it was rejected "because of IP and not registered WP user. I won't try again just to be overruled by WP "regulars".

24.225.161.193 (talk) 06:24, 28 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Emerged?

The article says they emerged from something but it's not clear what they emerged from, what they were previously contained in/by or how. Toddst1 (talk) 19:36, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Touring drummer - mid 1990's

I saw the Stranglers in Chicago in the mid-90's where Jet Black didn't make the tour, so they had a replacement drummer. The article mentions Ian Barnard as a touring drummer in the 2000's, so I wonder if anyone knows who the drummer was for the mid-90s tour? I suspect there were other tours that Jet didn't make too. Robman94 (talk) 15:04, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]