Less a band than an entertaining sideline, Celia & the Mutations were actually the union of the Stranglers with London torch singer Celia Gollin. First sighted by the band performing in a London club with former Kilburn & the High Roads keyboard player Rod Melvin , Gollin could scarcely have looked or sounded further away from the Stranglers ' then much maligned image as misogynist hard men. ALL MUSIC