About Jet Black
Brian John Duffy, known professionally as Jet Black, was an English drummer and founding member of punk rock/new wave band the Stranglers. He last performed with the band in 2015, and officially retired in 2018. Black said he was particularly fond of The Raven album because it was "the first time the Stranglers got major critical approval in the newspapers." Black had no contact with Hugh Cornwell after he left the band in 1990. Drummer Jim Macaulay played the first half of the set on a separate, smaller drum kit. Duffy was known as Jet Black when he became a full-time professional musician in the mid-1970s and met Hugh Cornwell of the band Johnny Sox after reading an advertisement in Melody Maker magazine. In the mid-1980s, Black elected to cease playing acoustic drums in the recording studio and used a Simmons kit triggered by pick-ups, most notably on the Feline and Aural Sculpture albums.
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