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Hugh Cornwell

Hugh Cornwell rose to fame as the guitarist and vocalist for UK punk heroes the Stranglers, joining the band in 1974 and remaining until 1990. Born on 28 August 1949 in Tufnell Park, north London, he played bass in a band with Richard Thompson, later of Fairport Convention fame, during his years of study in biochemistry at the University of Bristol. He released his first non-Stranglers album, the goth-rock record Nosferatu, in 1979, as a collaborative project with Magic Band drummer Robert Williams, with his own solo album Wolf arriving in 1988. In 1990, he recorded the LP 10 bef...