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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...
