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Stiff Little Fingers is tagged as: punk, punk rock, irish, political, rock

Stiff Little Fingers are a punk band from Belfast, Northern Ireland, formed in 1977. They started out as a schoolboy band called Highway Star (named after the Deep Purple song), doing rock covers, until they discovered punk. In 1983 they split up after six years and four albums, although they reformed four years later, in 1987. Despite major personnel changes, they are still touring and recording as of 2011. Jake Burns, their lead singer, is the only member to have been with the band during all its incarnations, although in March 2006, original bass guitarist Ali McMordie rejoined them following the departure of The Jam bass player Bruce Foxton after fifteen years.
|Early years
Prior to becoming Stiff Little Fingers, Jake Burns, vocals and guitar, Henry Cluney, guitar, Gordon Blair, bass, and Brian Faloon, drums, were playing in a rock music cover band, Highway Star, in Belfast. Upon the departure of Gordon Blair (who went on to play with another Belfast group, Rudi), Ali McMordie took over on bass. Cluney had by this time discovered punk, and introduced the rest of the band to it. They decided that Highway Star wasn’t a punk enough name, and after a brief flirtation with the name “The Fast”, decided to call themselves Stiff Little Fingers, after the Vibra...
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Top 10 Stiff Little Fingers Songs
Alternative Ulster
Suspect Device
Barbed Wire Love
Wasted Life
State of Emergency
At The Edge
Johnny Was
Gotta Gettaway
Here We Are Nowhere
Nobody's Hero
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Top 10 Stiff Little Fingers Albums
Inflammable Material
Nobody's Heroes
All The Best
Go for It
Anthology
Guitar And Drum
Get A Life
All the Best (disc 1)
Fly the Flags
Hanx!
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