Stranglers legend Jean-Jacques Burnel is still black-belting out the hits – as a rocker AND a superfit king of karate. The bass player once infamous for brawling, boozing and drug-taking now teaches ...

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Jean-Jacques Burnel (born 21 February 1952) is an English musician, producer and songwriter, best known as the bass guitarist and co-lead vocalist with the English rock band The Stranglers. He is the ...

The Stranglers' bass player is getting a little angry with me. Perhaps he is the same man as 40 years ago when his legendary punk era band was as well known for its various provocative stunts as much ...

ONE of the indelible stamps of The Stranglers brooding sound was Jean-Jacques Burnel’s growling bass lines. And from the start the men in black were laden with a brooding menace, sometimes exploding ...

As opening interview gambits go it's an unconventional one, but then Jean-Jacques 'JJ' Burnel and The Stranglers always were rather outré. "You look a bit like me… I wonder if I f****d your mum?” ...

Jet Black, drummer of new-wave rock band The Stranglers, has died at the age of 84. Bassist Jean-Jacques Burnel described him as a "force of nature", the "most erudite of men" and a "rebel with many ...

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The bass player, 69, has taken up a vigorous fitness regime and is now 'an honoured senior instructor' of Shidokan Get the latest coronavirus headlines - and the latest on the easing of lockdown - by ...

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The bass player, 69, has taken up a vigorous fitness regime and is now 'an honoured senior instructor' of Shidokan Stranglers legend Jean-Jacques Burnel is still black-belting out the hits – as a ...