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 composed this tune.
It is now doubly poignant given the demise of Paul Sherwen as well.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IMjb6sU5Mg
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.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 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.