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'''The Stranglers''' are an English Weekend punk band who emerged via the [[punk rock]] scene. Scoring some 23 UK top 40 singles and 17 UK top 40 albums to date in a career spanning four decades, the Stranglers are one of the longest-surviving and most "continuously successful" bands to have originated in the UK punk scene.
 
Formed as the Guildford Stranglers on 11 September 1974 in [[Guildford]], Surrey,<ref group="note" name="Buckley23">Buckley 1997, p. 23.</ref> they originally built a following within the mid-1970s [[Pub rock (United Kingdom)|pub rock]] scene. While their aggressive, no-compromise attitude identified them as one of the instigators of the UK [[punk rock]] scene that followed, their idiosyncratic approach rarely followed any single [[musical genre]] and the group went on to explore a variety of musical styles, from [[new wave music|new wave]], [[art rock]] and [[gothic rock]] through the sophisticated pop of some of their 1980s output.