Hanging Around With The Stranglers in 1980

Hanging Around With The Stranglers in 1980

On this day: 45 years ago on April 4, 1980 at the Rainbow Theatre in Finsbury Park, London, Robert Fripp joined an all-star cast of musicians in support of the Stranglers whose singer and guitarist Hugh Cornwell was serving two months in Pentonville prison on a drugs charge. The band had been booked to play two nights as part of the venue’s 50th Anniversary concert series sponsored by Levi jeans. Rather than disappoint ticket holders by cancelli…