“Our new record label thought we were awful, and they hated Golden Brown. They said, you’re finished”: Jean-Jacques Burnel on why The Stranglers’ best-known song was “a threat to the powers that be”

“Our new record label thought we were awful, and they hated Golden Brown. They said, you’re finished”:  Jean-Jacques Burnel on why The Stranglers’ best-known song was “a threat to the powers that be”

In February 1982, Golden Brown became The Stranglers’ highest-charting UK single, eventually selling over 500,000 copies. Not bad for a song their label didn’t want to release

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