Hugh Cornwell - All The Fun Of The Fair
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Track Listing / Description
A1 I Wannahideinsideya
A2 Too Much Trash
A3 Skin Deep
A4 Wrong Side of the Tracks
A5 Delightful Nightmare
B1 Strange Little Girl
B2 Totem and Taboo
B3 Bad Vibrations
B4 Who Wants the World
B5 Moments of Madness
C1 When I Was a Young Man
C2 Tramp
C3 Pure Evel
C4 Mr Leather
C5 Always the Sun
D1 Duce Coochie Man
D2 Goodbye Toulouse
D3 Another Kind of Love
D4 Out of My Mind
D5 Live It and Breathe It
When future historians of music draw up a list of the movers and shakers who changed the modern musical landscape, there will be no doubt that Hugh Cornwell's name will be prominent amongst them. As a pioneering musician, songwriter, and performer his pervasive influence persists in the record collections of music aficionados, across this spinning globe's radio waves, and on stages around the world.
As leader of The Stranglers, Hugh was the main songwriter of all the band's most memorable songs across ten stellar albums. Their 1977 debut Rattus Norvegicus — featuring seminal songs Peaches, (Get A) Grip, (On Yourself), and more — follow up albums No More Heroes, Black and White, The Raven and (The Gospel According To) the Meninblack - which Hugh cites as his favourite Stranglers album — consolidated Cornwell's stature as a unique songwriter and musician. His lyrics to Golden Brown, from the La Folie album, and their multiple meanings, is a songwriting masterclass with the song reaching number 2 in the UK singles charts. After releasing his final album 10 with the band Hugh embarked on a solo career.
2022 saw the release of Hugh Cornwell's highly anticipated tenth solo album Moments of Madness followed by extensive UK touring. It's an album of acute, pithy, and witty observations and social commentary across ten singular songs, that reconfirmed Hugh as the poet laureate of the punk era and beyond.