View basket “Get Close” has been added to your basket. Monster Hugh Cornwell SKU: 19075862401 Barcode: 190758624013 21.00 £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Silvertone Released Date: 1st October 2018 Buying Format: 2LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info One of the most celebrated songwriters of his generation, Hugh Cornwell will release his new album ‘Monster’ through Silvertone/Sony Music on 5th October. The album features 10 tracks written about some of the most remarkable, and indeed infamous, people of the 20th Century, both heroes and villains. Alongside these luminaries, he took inspiration initially from an extraordinary lady who swam every day in Hampstead ponds, his 98-year-old mother, Winifred. To locals, she was a hero who swam five or six times a day in all weathers, to Hugh’s family, she was the villain who kept them all in check. This juxtaposition started Hugh off on his creation of the album with the song La Grande Dame. The album takes its name from the eponymous track Monster, Hugh’s love-letter to the genius model-maker and animator Ray Harryhausen who blazed a trail with films such as Jason and the Argonauts and Clash of the Titans, paving the way for Spielberg, Lucas et al to follow his lead. Cornwell is, of course, no stranger to writing about illustrious and mythic characters, having penned The Stranglers’ evergreen 1977 hit, No More Heroes, with its references to Leon Trotsky, Lenin and Sancho Panza. Forty-one years later, the subjects he tackles on ‘Monster’ include everyone from music legends Lou Reed (on Mr. Leather) and Mose Allison (Mosin’), to ’70s stuntman Evel Knievel (Pure Evel), 1940s Hollywood star Hedy Lamarr (The Most Beautiful Girl In Hollywood), Sgt Bilko star Phil Silvers (Bilko), Italian dictator Benito Mussolini (Duce Coochie Man) and Zimbabwe ex-president Robert Mugabe (Robert). “These are people who have defied categorisation,” he explains of his choices. “I’ve spent my whole life trying to defy categorisation. If someone wants to put me into some sort of a box, I’ll do my best to defy it. You could call it being obstreperous, but it’s also got something to do with being drawn to people who are dichotomous.” As a companion disc to the album, ‘Restoration’ is a collection of re-recorded acoustic versions of Stranglers hits which Hugh has rediscovered over the years including favourites No More Heroes and Always the Sun alongside gems from the band’s catalogue including Outside Tokyo, Don’t Bring Harry and Let Me Down Easy. The double gatefold vinyl also comes with download codes. Artist Hugh Cornwell Genre Rock And Pop Label Silvertone Buying Options 2LP Format 2LP Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings MONSTER – SIDE A 1. Pure Evel 2. La Grande Dame 3. The Most Beautiful Girl In Hollywood 4. Mosin’ 5. Mr. Leather MONSTER – SIDE B 1. Bilko 2. Robert 3. Monster 4. Attack Of The Major Sevens 5. Duce Coochie Man RESTORATION – SIDE A 1. Outside Tokyo 2. Let Me Down Easy 3. Souls 4. Don’t Bring Harry 5. Goodbye Toulouse RESTORATION – SIDE B 1. Ships That Pass In The Night 2. Never Say Goodbye 3. No More Heroes 4. Big In America 5. 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