The
Stranglers have scored 42 Top 40 hits since forming in 1974, just as the pomp-rock of endless guitar solos was to be given a sharp kick in the rear by punk.
"Yeah, and Depeche Mode, and Simple Minds and whoever else," declares
Stranglers' co-founder Jean-Jacques 'JJ' Burnel.
The rise of The
Stranglers in the seventies happened as punk tock began to make an everlasting impression on the British music scene.
Another perennial climber,
strangler figs, requires special knowledge, as do figs in general.
The remains of Albert DeSalvo, who confessed to the Boston
Strangler murders, will be exhumed and compared to DNA from the body of Mary Sullivan.
Sullivan had long been considered the
strangler's last victim.
While Boston police had failed to crack their
strangler case, investigators quickly believed they had solved the Goldberg murder.
Desperate Housewives (Channel 4, Wednesday, 10pm) is hotting up nicely and the muddy waters around the identity of the Fairview
Strangler begin to clear.
In tonight's slam-dunk of an episode Mary Alice makes a rare appearance and the identity of the Fairview
Strangler is finally revealed.
Junger turns away from the destructive effects of the elements (Fire and A Perfect Storm) to write about deadly force of a very different kind: the Boston
Strangler murders of the 1960s.