172traindriver
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Just seen on BBC news he has passed away suddenly.
Happy days watching him and others leading the punk movement.
RIP Pete
Happy days watching him and others leading the punk movement.
RIP Pete
Pete Shelley - Buzzcocks singer
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Accy cyclist
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https://www.manchestereveningnews.c...ws/buzzcocks-pete-shelley-dead-heart-15518344
I saw them 3 times at Blackburn's King George's Hall,so i must have liked them a bit.
I saw them 3 times at Blackburn's King George's Hall,so i must have liked them a bit.
nickyboy
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That's sad. He was very talented. Used to love the Buzzcocks
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Leigh's finest gone. Sad day
The Crofted Crest
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That is really sad news. RIP, Pete.
Accy cyclist
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"Sop chuckin' f..k..g beer mats you self-gratification artists,or we go off" said Pete Shelly to the audience when someone found a box of them behind the bar and passed them around so we could throw them at the stage in appreciation. Heck that was 40 long years ago!
I wonder if he shortened his first name to stop being confused with this bloke?
I wonder if he shortened his first name to stop being confused with this bloke?
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Pete Shelley composed this tune.
It is now doubly poignant given the demise of Paul Sherwen as well.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IMjb6sU5Mg
It is now doubly poignant given the demise of Paul Sherwen as well.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IMjb6sU5Mg
Accy cyclist
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GuyBoden
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RIP Pete Shelley
The first guitar riff I learned back in 1977, was Boredom by Buzzcocks. (Off the Spiral Scratch EP with Devoto singing)
The two note solo was beyond my ability.
Great stuff at the time.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoYiQ8Qsozk
The first guitar riff I learned back in 1977, was Boredom by Buzzcocks. (Off the Spiral Scratch EP with Devoto singing)
The two note solo was beyond my ability.
Great stuff at the time.View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoYiQ8Qsozk
robjh
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Another part of my youth gone. I discovered the Buzzcocks in 1978 and absolutely loved them.
I still have some of their records in a box upstairs - Spiral Scratch, Everybody's Happy Nowadays, Ever Fallen in Love, as well as their first album (hm, not their greatest work) - and if I still had a turntable I would go off and play them now.
I still have some of their records in a box upstairs - Spiral Scratch, Everybody's Happy Nowadays, Ever Fallen in Love, as well as their first album (hm, not their greatest work) - and if I still had a turntable I would go off and play them now.
nickyboy
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There were a few bands of the punk era that had genuine songwriting ability such as The Jam, The Damned, The Clash. I'd put the Buzzcocks up there with them
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I was almost certainly at one of those accy for I too saw them at Blackburn King George's Hall in the pretty early days.
And re your recollection below, I do remember Pete Shelley, in his rather petulant sounding voice (at the time I wondered if it was for real so unpunk did it sound) stopping the band and threatening to walk from the stage if people didn't stop spitting at them - for some reason at the time thought to be a mark of appreciation.
Great band, great songs - besides the drive and aggression there was a real melodic pop sensibility about them.
I saw them again years later in London (90s I guess) - still a great band but there was something odd about Pete singing songs in his 30s about teen angst.
RIP Pete. Damn shocking when folk from that era go. ie - my bleedin' youth.
edit - several pieces on him in the Guardian - will read later.
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Accy cyclist
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I'm not too sure but i think maybe The Ramones were a support to The Buzzcocks at one of their Blackburn gigs. I know The Ramones were support band somewhere long the line at that venue. When you tell youngsters that you saw the Buzzcocks 3 times,The Ramones,The Clash 3 times, AC/DC and The Jam twice in Blackburn, they seem to think you're making it up. Mind you i felt the same when those older than me said they saw The Beatles and The Stones in places Like The Nelson Imperial near Burnley! https://www.beatlesbible.com/1963/05/11/live-imperial-ballroom-nelson/
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