A LIFE IN PICTURES
Hugh are you?: Cornwell unmasked.
1 The young Cornwell as a new pupil at William Ellis School, Highgate, north London in the early ’60s.
2 Bass motives: Hugh (far left) with school group Emil & The Detectives. Bandleader Richard Thompson is far right.
3 United Nations: Hugh helps to paint the Johnny Sox van. “Two American draft dodgers, two Swedes and me.”
4 Full throttle: The Stranglers’ classic line-up (from left) Jet Black, Jean-Jacques Burnel, Cornwell, Dave Greenfield.
5 “It made me appreciate freedom”: Hazel O’Connor collects Hugh after his month in Pentonville prison, April 25, 1980.
6 “It’s the peripheral ones that had the longevity”: Cornwell, on-stage and focused with The Stranglers.
7 Renaissance man: Hugh signs copies
of his memoir A Multitude Of Sins, October 2004.
8 Sticky wicket: Hugh and Captain Sensible on the run for The Stranglers vs The Media, September 16, 1979.
9 Cornwell in 1978: “The problem with punk was it preached freedom and self-expression and yet it was very dogmatic and bounded by rules and regulations.”