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Hugh Cornwell rose to fame as the guitarist and vocalist for UK punk heroes the Stranglers, joining the band in 1974 and remaining until 1990. Born on 28 August 1949 in Tufnell Park, north London, he played bass in a band with Richard Thompson, later of Fairport Convention fame, during his years of study in biochemistry at the University of Bristol. He released his first non-Stranglers album, the goth-rock record Nosferatu, in 1979, as a collaborative project with Magic Band drummer Robert Williams, with his own solo album Wolf arriving in 1988. In 1990, he recorded the LP 10 before parting ways with the band. His second studio album, Wired (released under the title First Bus to Babylon in the US), came out in 1983 followed by Guilty (renamed Black Hair, Black Eyes, Black Suit in 1997 and a string of others, from Hi Fi in 2000 to Beyond Elysian Fields in 2004, which was produced by Tony Visconti. He continued to release music sporadically during the '00s and '10s, joining with legendary recording engineer Steve Albini for eighth studio album Totem and Taboo in 2012 and going to number 62 in the UK Albums Chart with 2018 album Monster. In 2022, he returned with his tenth studio album, the self-produced Moments of Madness, which went to number 44 in the UK and featured various instruments played by himself.
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