Jet Black (born Brian John Duffy, 26 August 1938,[1][2] Ilford, Essex) is an English drummer and one of the founder members of punk rock / new wave band The Stranglers.[3]
Black was a successful businessman up until the mid-1970s, owning a fleet of ice cream vans,[4] and an off-licence in Guildford, called 'The Jackpot'. This establishment was the base for the early Stranglers.[5][6]
He became a full-time professional musician in the mid 1970s and applied to join the Hugh Cornwell-led band Johnny Sox after reading an advertisement in the Melody Maker magazine.[7] Johnny Sox would evolve into The Stranglers in 1974.[8] "Golden Brown" is a song by the English rock band The Stranglers. It was released as a 7" single in December 1981, on Liberty.
Originally featured on the group's album La Folie, which was released in November 1981, and later on some pressings of Feline, "Golden Brown" was released as a single in December 1981, and was accompanied by a video. It reached #2 in the official UK singles chart in February 1982[1], behind "Town Called Malice" by The Jam[2]. It was reissued in 1991, but without much success, peaking at only #68 in the.