Golden brown, The Stranglers are still rocking

IT’S summer 1985 and The Stranglers are performing to a crowd of around 40,000 in Athens, writes Joe Nerssessian.

Outside a police car is ablaze as rioting fans try to break into the Panathenaic Stadium. Depeche Mode were hiding under the stage while Boy George was being attacked by bottles, recalls a cackling Jean-Jacques Burnel.