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Hugh Cornwell
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 7
Top works
- Arnold Drive
- The Stranglers
- Future Tense
- Multitude of Sins
- Window on the World
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Film & TV
Tufnell Park, London, England, UK
Hugh Alan Cornwell (born 28 August 1949) 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. Since leaving the Stranglers, Cornwell has recorded a further ten solo studio albums and continues to record and perform live. Cornwell grew up in Tufnell Park and Kentish…
Known for
- My View: Clem Burke — Self2019
- The Stranglers: Death + Night + Blood — Self - (Archival footage)2019
- Hugh Cornwell: Anthology - Aberdeen Acoustic — Self2015
- The Stranglers: Never To Look Back - The Video Collection 1983-2012 — Self (archive footage)2012
- Blueprint — Self2008
- Hugh Cornwell Songbook — Self2008
- Somewhere — Man A2005
- Through the Night with... — Self2002
- The Stranglers — Self2000
- Hugh Cornwell: Live in Paris at MCM Cafe — Self1996
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1949-08-28
Discography
- Sons of Shiva
- White Room1979
- Nosferatu1979
- One in a Million1985
- Wolf1988
- CCW1992
- Wired1993
- Guilty1997
- First Bus to Babylon1999
- Hi Fi2001
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- Listeners
- 16,584
- Total plays
- 161,870
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Hugh Cornwell is an English musician & songwriter, best known for being the vocalist, guitarist and original founder of the British punk/new wave group The Stranglers, 1974–90. Cornwell was born in London, England in 1949 - growing up in Tufnell Park and Kentish Town - and attended William Ellis School in Highgate, where he was friends with Richard Thompson, later a member of Fairport Convention. In the late 1960s, having obtained a degree in biochemistry from Bristol University <a href="https:
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Alan
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- London
- Occupation
- recording artist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- new wave
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- United Artists Records
- Official website
- hughcornwell.com
- Image
- HC@N1-13 cropped.jpg
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- Commons category
- Hugh Cornwell
- date of birth
- 1949-08-28
- Commons gallery
- Hugh Cornwell
- name in native language
- Hugh Cornwell
- start of work period
- 1974-00-00
- member of
- The Stranglers
- birth name
- Hugh Alan Cornwell
- copyright representative
- PRS for Music
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