A founding member of the seminal UK punk band Buzzcocks, Pete Shelley explored a more synthesizer heavy brand of danceable pop after his first band broke up in 1981. Himself bisexual, Pete's first ...
Buzzcocks played what turned out the be their final show on 23 January 1981. At this point, making a new album, their fourth, was on the table. Neither the band or the audience in Hamburg knew it was ...
Steve Diggle decided to keep the Buzzcocks flag flying after the death of Pete Shelley in 2018, releasing a single in 2020 and an EP earlier this year. Today Sonics in the Soul arrives, the first ...
Pete Shelley’s first two post-Buzzcocks solo albums, Homosapien and XL-1, will be reissued by Domino on June 6. THE APRIL 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT, STARRING LED ZEPPELIN, JASON ISBELL, BRYAN FERRY, ...
When Howard Devoto and Pete Shelley met at the Bolton Institute of Technology in Manchester, England, they were looking to put a band together. After witnessing a Sex Pistols concert, they recruited ...
LONDON — Pete Shelley, the singer-songwriter and co-founder of the punk band the Buzzcocks, has died at age 63. On Thursday, the band confirmed “with great sadness” his death and called him “one of ...
Tributes flooded in on Friday for "brilliant talent" Pete Shelley, the lead singer and songwriter with influential British pop punk band the "Buzzcocks", who died in Estonia aged 63. The Buzzcocks, ...
LONDON — Pete Shelley, the singer-songwriter and co-founder of the punk band the Buzzcocks, has died at age 63. On Thursday, the band confirmed his death “with great sadness” and called him “one of ...