Friday 3 March 2017

40 Years of Punk & New Wave 1977: The Stranglers Debut Peel Session


Debut John Peel Session
Recorded 1st March 1977
First Broadcast 3rd March 1977


Tracklist
1. Hanging Around
2. I Feel Like A Wog
3. Goodbye Toulouse
4. Something Better Change

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On this day in 1977 the BBC broadcast the Debut Studio Session from The Stranglers on the John Peel Show on Radio 1.

Two songs featured as part of the session (Hanging Around and Goodbye Toulouse) would be on their Debut Album Rattus Norvegicus that would be released in April.



The remaining two songs (I Feel Like A Wog and Something Better Change would feature on their second album No More Heroes (which would be released in September 1977 and Something Better Change released as a single in July 1977). Not that we would know that at the time of course!


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