Euroman Cometh is the 1979 debut solo album by The Stranglers

The Stranglers

The Stranglers are an English punk/rock music group.Scoring some 23 UK top 40 singles and 17 UK top 40 albums to date in a career spanning five decades, the Stranglers are the longest-surviving and most "continuously successful" band to have originated in the UK punk scene of the mid to late 1970s...

' bassist

Bassist

A bass player, or bassist is a musician who plays a bass instrument such as a double bass, bass guitar, keyboard bass or a low brass instrument such as a tuba or sousaphone. Different musical genres tend to be associated with one or more of these instruments...

 J. J. Burnel.

Guest musicians were Peter Howells of The Drones

The Drones (British band)

The Drones were a punk rock band from Manchester, England. For a period of time, the band were produced and managed by Paul Morley.One critic wrote: "Bonafide DIY three-chord wonders, the Drones were there at punk’s inception."-Career:...

 (drums on tracks 3,5,6), track 9 featured Brian James of The Damned (guitar), Lew Lewis

Lew Lewis

Lew Lewis is a "Little Walter-influenced" harmonica player and vocalist who was a member of Eddie and the Hot Rods before forming his own bands, and guesting on albums by The Stranglers, The Clash and others.-Career:...

 (harmonica) and Carey Fortune of Chelsea

Chelsea (band)

Chelsea are an English punk rock band, formed in London in 1976.Three of the four original band members went on to help found Generation X. More than two decades after its release, "Right to Work", Chelsea's debut single, was included in Mojo magazine's list of the best punk rock singles of all...

 (drums). All other instruments were played by Burnel himself.

The album reached number 40 in the UK Albums Chart

UK Albums Chart

The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...

 in April 1979. The track "Freddie Laker" was released as a single on 13 April 1979, backed with the non-album track "Ozymandias".

Printed on the sleeve is a tribute to the Meriden Motorcycle Co-operative that manufactured Triumph motorcycles

Triumph Motorcycles

Triumph Engineering Co Ltd was a British motorcycle manufacturing company, based originally in Coventry and then in Solihull at Meriden. A new company, Triumph Motorcycles Ltd based in Hinckley gained the name rights after the end of the company in the 1980s and is now one of the world's major...

 from 1976-83. The tribute reads, "The Triumph Workers Co-operative at Meriden have proved that personally motivated enterprise coupled with group interest is a necessary ingredient in successful socialism and the sham they call national socialism could only be suggested and perpetrated by enemies of the people". Burnel's 750cc Triumph Bonneville T140

Triumph Bonneville T140

The Triumph Bonneville T140 is a British motorcycle with a capacity engine that was designed and built by Triumph Engineering at Meriden near Coventry....

, manufactrued by the Meriden

Meriden, West Midlands

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 Co-operative, revs its engine during the track Triumph (Of The Good City).

Track listing

All tracks composed by J.J. Burnel; except where indicated

1. "Euroman"
2. "Jellyfish"
3. "Freddie Laker (Concorde and Eurobus)"
4. "Euromess"
5. "Deutschland Nicht Uber Alles"
6. "Do the European"
7. "Tout Comprendre"
8. "Triumph (Of The Good City)"
9. "Pretty Face" (Chris Boyle, Gavin Daneski, Ralph Worman, Vic Sendall)
10. "Crabs"
11. "Eurospeed (Your Own Speed)"

The name in the track "Freddie Laker

Freddie Laker

Sir Frederick Alfred Laker was a British airline entrepreneur, best known for founding Laker Airways in 1966, which went bankrupt in 1982...

 (Concorde

Concorde

Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde was a turbojet-powered supersonic passenger airliner, a supersonic transport . It was a product of an Anglo-French government treaty, combining the manufacturing efforts of Aérospatiale and the British Aircraft Corporation...

 and Eurobus)" refers to the airline

Airline

An airline provides air transport services for traveling passengers and freight. Airlines lease or own their aircraft with which to supply these services and may form partnerships or alliances with other airlines for mutual benefit...

 entrepreneur

Entrepreneur

An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to...

 Sir Freddie Laker. The album cover features a photograph

Photograph

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  of the Centre Georges Pompidou

Centre Georges Pompidou

Centre Georges Pompidou is a complex in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles, rue Montorgueil and the Marais...

 in Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

.

External links

• The Burning Up Times issue 4 (May 2009)