Unlike many of the punk bands that sprung up in the U.K. in the mid- and late '70s, the Buzzcocks didn't totally hate pop music. They often embraced its hooky dynamics, infusing their songs with tight ...

The Buzzcocks were born 40 years ago on stage at Lesser Free Trade Hall in Manchester, England, opening for the Sex Pistols in their first live performance. That legendary show, on June 4, 1976, ...

The Buzzcocks will reissue the 12 singles the pioneering punk band released for United Artists between 1977 and 1980 in a new 7-inch vinyl box set. Each single in the 12-record set — due out January ...

The world lost one of the great pop-punk singer/songwriters when Buzzcocks frontman Pete Shelley died from a suspected heart attack in December 2018. He was 63. Had he lived Shelley would have ...

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From Buzzcocks’ essential punk anthems and lovelorn tales to his solo electronica, the late musician was one of the finest songwriters of a generation Boredom (1977) From the initial Buzzcocks line-up ...

Pete Shelley was the first person to make punk rock for everyone. The singer-guitarist, who died yesterday at the age of 63, fronted the pioneering punk band Buzzcocks. While never quite as well known ...

Critics often resort to describing a talented singer as the voice of his or her generation, but if there is a single vocalist who could be accurately anointed as the voice of the punk generation, it ...

Few songwriters have captured matters of the heart the same way that the Buzzcocks vocalist Pete Shelley did. Shelley, who passed last week from a heart attack at age 63, was deeply perceptive, and ...