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On this day in 1982, the Stranglers single “Golden Brown” debuted on the UK Singles Chart at #67 (January 9)

Most probably the only harpsichord-based single ever to be released by a new wave/punk/rock band, “Golden Brown” was the second single released from the Stranglers’ sixth studio album “La folie” (1981) and peaked at #2 in the UK Singles Chart, the band's highest ever charting single there.

It was kept at #2 for two weeks by "Town Called Malice” by the Jam.

The music was largely written by their brilliant keyboard player, the late Dave Greenfield and drummer, the recently departed Jet Black, with lyrics by singer/guitarist Hugh Cornwell.

In his book The Stranglers Song by Song (2001), Hugh Cornwell states, "'Golden Brown' works on two levels. It's about heroin and also about a girl... both provided me with pleasurable times."

In a 2017 interview for Dutch television station Top 2000 a gogo, Cornwell says he believes that the song would have got to #1 if bass player Jean-Jacques Burnel had not told the press that the song was about heroin, at which point broadcasters removed it from their playlists, prejudicing sales.
“I would have waited till it got to #1 and then said it," he commented.

The baroque-style track also did well elsewhere around the world, peaking at #3 in Ireland, #7 in Belgium, #8 in the Netherlands, and #10 in Australia.

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