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The Stranglers on 40 years of fights, drugs, UFOs and "doing all the wrong things"

Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 12 March 2014

Legend has it the Stranglers started a fight with the Clash, took heroin for a year, exploited strippers on stage, and incited a riot in Nice. But the truth was often much worse.

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