1. Hugh Alan Cornwell was born on 28 August 1949 and is an English musician, singer-songwriter and writer, best known for being the lead vocalist and lead guitarist for the punk rock and new wave band the Stranglers from 1974 to 1990.
22 Facts About Hugh Cornwell
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Since leaving the Stranglers, Cornwell has recorded a further ten solo studio albums and continues to record and perform live.
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Hugh Cornwell attended William Ellis School in Highgate, where he played bass in a band with Richard Thompson, later a member of folk rock band Fairport Convention.
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Hugh Cornwell returned to the UK in 1974 with Johnny Sox.
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Hugh Cornwell was the lead guitarist in the group and he sang the majority of songs, with Burnel handling lead vocals on about a third of the band's songs.
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Hugh Cornwell recorded his first studio album away from the group, Nosferatu, in collaboration with the Captain Beefheart's Magic Band's drummer, Robert Williams, in 1979.
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Hugh Cornwell used a bass guitar when performing "Dead Loss Angeles" on The Raven tour in 1979 and was instrumental in teaching Stranglers bassist Jean Jacques Burnel how to play bass guitar.
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Hugh Cornwell recorded the album 10 with the band before leaving them after 16 years.
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Footprints in the Desert released in 2002 is Hugh Cornwell's second "lost album" and compiles rare and unreleased tracks from the mid-1990s, that were not part of a record deal.
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In June 2008, Hugh Cornwell followed in the footsteps of Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails by initially offering his new album, Hooverdam, as a free download on his website.
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Hugh Cornwell explained that the film was partly motivated by the risible quality of the DVDs accompanying contemporary CD releases.
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Hugh Cornwell's forthcoming tour sees him play the new album and the Stranglers' landmark 1977 record, No More Heroes, but Totem and Taboo is strong enough on its own.
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In 2016, Hugh Cornwell collaborated with performance poet John Cooper Clarke to create the album This Time It's Personal, a collection of classic American and British pop songs from their youth.
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Hugh Cornwell had the idea that Clarke should apply his distinctive vocals to "MacArthur Park" and the project grew from there.
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In 2018, Hugh Cornwell signed to Sony as a solo artist and released Monster.
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On this album, Hugh Cornwell sang about Evel Knievel, Lou Reed, Hedy Lamarr, Benito Mussolini, Phil Silvers and many more.
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Hugh Cornwell is a genius and Monster is just another example of his brilliant work.
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Hugh Cornwell has an interest in acting, and has appeared in a number of productions.
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Hugh Cornwell appeared in the 1987 Peter Richardson film Eat the Rich, the award-winning BBC Screen Two series and in the 1995 BBC production, Rumble.
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Hugh Cornwell has appeared in a number of videos and short films, including Bertrand Fevre's L'etoile de sang.
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Hugh Cornwell played a live acoustic version of " Grip " with the then England batsman and guitarist Mark Butcher.
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Hugh Cornwell subsequently became a player with Bunbury Cricket Club, and has been a guest on "A View from the Boundary" on BBC Radio 4's Test Match Special and BBC Radio 5 Live's Yes It's the Ashes.