Duchess- The Stranglers (1982)

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An individual, limited edition, example of vinyl art made from a genuine, original, 45rpm, 7” single featuring the  single, Duchess by The Stranglers. The record was released in 1982, on the Liberty record label and has been reworked into the silhouette of the feline cat cartoon character ‘Duchess’ from the Disney animated film but here I have shown her wearing a crown.

A great framed gift for a friend or family member who is a fan of The Stranglers, Rock, Cats, the film ‘The Aristocrats’ or has a special memory linked to the song.

Presented in a black wooden box frame
Limited Edition of 100, signed and numbered by myself, the artist

Title: Duchess
Media Artist/s: The Stranglers
Record Label: Liberty
Medium: Mixed media, hand cut from an original 7″ vinyl single
Era: 1980s
Genre: Rock

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Additional information about this, The Stranglers vinyl art.

The Stranglers – The Artist

The Stranglers are an English rock 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 or they originally built a following within the mid-1970s 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, art rock, gothic rock and pop. The original personnel were drums / Jet Black, bass player/vocalist Jean-Jacques Burnel, guitarist/vocalist Hugh Cornwell and keyboardist/guitarist Hans Wärmling, who was replaced by keyboardist Dave Greenfield within a year.

Duchess – The Song

‘Duchess’ is a song by The Stranglers from the album The Raven. The ninth track on the album, it peaked at number 14 in the UK Singles Chart. The supporting video for the song was banned by the BBC, as they deemed it blasphemous for its content, which featured the band dressed up as choirboys. Lyrically the song is about English snobbiness or the cheapness of modern life. The Duchess is a kind of “extraordinary girl” figure in an ordinary world of broken down tvs. While the world crumbles around her, she stays with her honour, believing herself to be some kind of royal princess. The “Rodneys” are the ordinary blokes she has to choose from to marry, the modern men, part of the boring world.

Duchess The Cat – The Shape

Modelled into a Duchess the cat, the feline character in the Disney animated film, ‘The Aristocrats’. The Aristocats is a 1970 American animated romantic musical comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and directed by Wolfgang Reitherman. The 20th Disney animated feature film, the film is based on a story by Tom McGowan and Tom Rowe, and revolves around a family of aristocratic cats, and how an alley cat acquaintance helps them after a butler has kidnapped them to gain his mistress’s fortune which was intended to go to them.

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Weight 1030 g
Dimensions 25 × 4.5 × 25 cm
Artist Formation

Group / Band

Decade

80's

Gender

Male

Nationality

English

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