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United Artists released this as a single in Nov '78 but it failed to chart.

Black and White is The Stranglers third studio album and was recorded within 18 months of their debut Rattus Norvegicus.

Produced by Martin Rushent and engineered by Alan Winstanley, the album is divided into the Black side and White side, each nominally characterised by the style and mood of the songs which they contain.

An Edited Version of "Walk on By" with "Tank" was also pressed as a double A side Radio play single.Most of these tracks were included in the remastered 2001 CD re-issue of the album.The album peaked at no.2 on the album chart in 1978, spending 18 weeks on the chart."Tank"† (2:54)"Nice 'N' Sleazy"† (3:11)"Outside Tokyo"† (2:06)"Sweden (All Quiet on the Eastern Front)"† (2:47)"Hey! (Rise of the Robots)"† (2:13)"Toiler on the Sea"† (5:23)"Curfew"‡ (3:10)"Threatened"‡ (3:30)"Do You Wanna"§/"Death and Night and Blood (Yukio)"‡ (5:25)"In the Shadows"† (4:15)"Enough Time"† (4:16)"Mean to Me"† (1:55)"Walk on By"† (6:22)"Mean to Me"† (1:55)*"Walk on By"† (6:22)*"Shut Up"‡ (1:07)"Sveridge"† (2:49)"Old Codger" (2:49)"Tits"† (5:25)The above track listing is as per the original Vinyl LP Release (both UK United Artists & US A&M versions).The CD changed the running order, moving "Hey" to before "Sweden" and "In The Shadows" to before "Do You Wanna".All tracks by The Stranglers, except Walk on By by Burt Bacharach/Hal David Hugh Cornwell: guitars, lead† and backing vocals J.J.Burnel: bass guitar, lead‡ and backing vocals Dave Greenfield: keyboards (Hammond L100 Organ, Hohner Cembalet electric piano, Minimoog synthesizer), lead§ & backing vocals Jet Black: drums, percussion Lora Logic (of Essential Logic and X-Ray Spex): guest saxophone on "Hey!" George Melly: guest vocals on "Old Codger" Lew Lewis: harmonica on "Old Codger"Original Album Recorded February/March 1978 Martin Rushent: Producer Alan Winstanley: Engineer Kevin Sparrow: Sleeve Design Ruan O'Lochlainn: Cover PhotographyCD Reissue: Alan Parker: idea and concept, sleeve notes Steve Woof: 'our man at EMI' Nick Reynolds: reissue art design Rob Green: Reissue art design.

This release sees The Stranglers adopting a more experimental approach to song structures and time signatures (for example, "Curfew" features 7/4 time).The band recorded a version of "Sweden" sung in Swedish and released this in Sweden (the song was inspired by Cornwell's PhD placement at Lund University in the mid 1970s).

"Walk on By" was their cover of the Bacharach and David song written for (and originally recorded by) Dionne Warwick.

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