Quote Of The Day – The Late PETE SHELLEY About His Band BUZZCOCKS
The late great buzzcock (17 April 1955 – 6 December 2018) about his band.
Pete Shelley
Quote Of The Day – The Late Great PETE SHELLEY About His Innate Pop Sensibility
The Fab Four’s fault.
Quote Of The Day – HOWARD DEVOTO Remembering His BUZZCOCKS Days
Howard Devoto (on the far right) with Buzzcocks,before forming Magazine,
about his work relationship with the late great Pete Shelley…
Full Louder Than War interview here / RIP Pete Shelley
Quote Of The Day – By BUZZCOCKS’ Late Frontman PETE SHELLEY…
The late great Pete Shelley about the early punk days…
Happy 65 PETE SHELLEY
18 April 2020
PETE SHELLEY, the late great punk legend and frontman of Buzzocks would have been
65 today. He was born, named Peter Campbell McNeish, on 17 April 1955. Unfortunately, he left us on 6 December 2018. A brilliant singer-songwriter and musician whose solo work isn’t praised as much as it deserves. Shelley made four solos albums between 1979 and 1986 (Sky Yen / Homosapien / XL-1 / Heaven And The Sea) and one album called Buzzkunst,
in 2002, with his one-time Buzzcock pal Howard Devoto.
To celebrate his 65th birthday I picked three standout solo tracks. Here we go…
– TELEPHONE OPERATOR –
(From XL-1, 1986)
– HOMOSAPIEN –
(From Homosapien, 1981 )
– WAITING FOR LOVE –
(From Heaven And The Sea – 1986)
PETE SHELLEY Influenced Many Modern Dance Acts With ‘HOMOSAPIEN’…
12 December 2018
The unfortunately late (really weird to use that word all of a sudden) Pete Shelley didn’t only write a ton of razor-sharp sounding punk pop Buzzcocks classics, but as he went his own way for the first time in 1981 he made a surprisingly heavy synths loaded dance pop album, entitled HOMOSAPIEN which inspired many future electronic acts over the years. The utterly catchy and clever title track even inspired LCD Soundsystem‘s maestro James Murphy for his quite similar cutting 2007 soundbite called North American Scum.
Thanks for the music, homosapien…
I don’t wanna classify you
Like an animal in the zoo
But it seems good to me to know
That you’re Homosapien too
Album in full…
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PETE SHELLEY: Discography
BUZZCOCKS Frontman PETE SHELLEY Passed Away Today At 63 – Rest In Peace…
Frontman and songwriter Pete Shelley of Manchester punk legends
BUZZCOCKS died of a heart attack today, 6 December 2018. Only 63.
The band’s Facebook page unveiled the news around 10 PM…
“It’s with great sadness that we confirm the death of Pete Shelley, one of the UK’s most influential and prolific songwriters and co-founder of the seminal original punk band Buzzcocks. Pete’s music has inspired generations of musicians over a career that spanned
five decades and with his band and as a solo artist, he was held in the highest regard by
the music industry and by his fans around the world.”
NME’s In Memoriam / BUZZCOCKS: Facebook – Website
(photo on top: BBC – Top Of The Pops)
MAGAZINE Got ‘SHOT BY BOTH SIDES’ 40 Years Ago…
When timeless in sound and vision it’s a …
19 January 2018
SHOT BY BOTH SIDES is an impressive jigsaw classic by MAGAZINE. Written by its frontman Howard Devoto and Buzzcocks’ mastermind Pete Shelley (they actually both formed pop punks Buzzcocks in 1976, Devoto left after a few months to start his own band). The song was inspired by Devoto‘s girlfriend who said to him after a political discussion: “Oh, you’ll end up shot by both sides” and has sonically nothing to do with punk whatsoever. It’s just a monumental, paranoid pushed up eruption released as a single on 20 January 1978, 40 years ago. Go frenzy here…
Audio version…
On legendary British TV show Top Of The Tops
MAGAZINE: Facebook – Discography
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