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Genius songwriter, musician, and vocalist. The Buzzcocks stuff was so iconic that people tend to overlook his solo stuff. For me just as tremendous and timeless. R.I.P
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Pete Shelley Gone at 63 on 21:55 - Dec 6 with 2448 views
Pete Shelley Gone at 63 on 21:43 - Dec 6 by DannyPaddox
Genius songwriter, musician, and vocalist. The Buzzcocks stuff was so iconic that people tend to overlook his solo stuff. For me just as tremendous and timeless. R.I.P
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Pete Shelley Gone at 63 on 06:52 - Dec 7 with 2196 views
Good band the Buzzcocks. Saw many punk bands, but alas not the Buzzcocks. I liked many of their humour tinted and creative songs, something far less acerbic and political than the rasping Pistols stuff at the time.
RIP Pete.
There aint half been some clever bastards.
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Pete Shelley Gone at 63 on 10:14 - Dec 7 with 2081 views
FIrst album I ever owned was Another Music In A Different Kitchen in 1978. Still THE best album committed to vinyl. The best Christmas present I have ever received aged 15. Pete became my instant 'guitar hero'. First time I ever saw them was at Hammersmith Odeon in 79. I was fortunate to see them 3 times in their first incarnation. I was gutted when they split. In September 1989 I bought my first CD Walkman. That very day the Product Box Set was released on CD in time for the Reunion Tour. To this day, BuzZcocks at Brixton Academy in 1989 is my all time favourite gig. Imagine fast forwarding the clock to 2003 and becoming friends with the band?? Speaking to him at gigs was like a dream come true for that spotty little kid from 1978. Buying him a pint in a pub was always a pleasure. Even to this day I was always star struck in his presence. The last two years he said he was winding down the gigs as he was living abroad and he wasn't a young man. They have spent the last two years just playing festivals. I last them two years ago at the Roundhouse. The gig in June at the Albert Hall was to be the finale on what has been a brilliant career. He was the nicest, sweetest human being you could ever meet. He wasn't perfect but once you was in his circle of friends that was it. There's a saying 'you should never meet your heroes' . Its b0ll0cks. He's my only 'guitar hero'. Wait until you read the tributes from musicians he has inspired over the years.
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Pete Shelley Gone at 63 on 10:27 - Dec 7 with 2070 views
Ever Fallen In Love is an amazingly good song. When it pops up in among my travel music, I can listen to it ten times in a row, it stirs me up so much. Way too young to go.
Pete Shelley Gone at 63 on 10:14 - Dec 7 by smegma
FIrst album I ever owned was Another Music In A Different Kitchen in 1978. Still THE best album committed to vinyl. The best Christmas present I have ever received aged 15. Pete became my instant 'guitar hero'. First time I ever saw them was at Hammersmith Odeon in 79. I was fortunate to see them 3 times in their first incarnation. I was gutted when they split. In September 1989 I bought my first CD Walkman. That very day the Product Box Set was released on CD in time for the Reunion Tour. To this day, BuzZcocks at Brixton Academy in 1989 is my all time favourite gig. Imagine fast forwarding the clock to 2003 and becoming friends with the band?? Speaking to him at gigs was like a dream come true for that spotty little kid from 1978. Buying him a pint in a pub was always a pleasure. Even to this day I was always star struck in his presence. The last two years he said he was winding down the gigs as he was living abroad and he wasn't a young man. They have spent the last two years just playing festivals. I last them two years ago at the Roundhouse. The gig in June at the Albert Hall was to be the finale on what has been a brilliant career. He was the nicest, sweetest human being you could ever meet. He wasn't perfect but once you was in his circle of friends that was it. There's a saying 'you should never meet your heroes' . Its b0ll0cks. He's my only 'guitar hero'. Wait until you read the tributes from musicians he has inspired over the years.
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I went to that gig at the Academy.
One of the very few gigs that I went to know where I knew and loved every single song and new all of the lyrics (much to my surprise - I had no idea that they'd got under my skin in that way).
It was 90 minutes of pure melodic punk/pop pleasure.
Pete Shelley Gone at 63 on 10:14 - Dec 7 by smegma
FIrst album I ever owned was Another Music In A Different Kitchen in 1978. Still THE best album committed to vinyl. The best Christmas present I have ever received aged 15. Pete became my instant 'guitar hero'. First time I ever saw them was at Hammersmith Odeon in 79. I was fortunate to see them 3 times in their first incarnation. I was gutted when they split. In September 1989 I bought my first CD Walkman. That very day the Product Box Set was released on CD in time for the Reunion Tour. To this day, BuzZcocks at Brixton Academy in 1989 is my all time favourite gig. Imagine fast forwarding the clock to 2003 and becoming friends with the band?? Speaking to him at gigs was like a dream come true for that spotty little kid from 1978. Buying him a pint in a pub was always a pleasure. Even to this day I was always star struck in his presence. The last two years he said he was winding down the gigs as he was living abroad and he wasn't a young man. They have spent the last two years just playing festivals. I last them two years ago at the Roundhouse. The gig in June at the Albert Hall was to be the finale on what has been a brilliant career. He was the nicest, sweetest human being you could ever meet. He wasn't perfect but once you was in his circle of friends that was it. There's a saying 'you should never meet your heroes' . Its b0ll0cks. He's my only 'guitar hero'. Wait until you read the tributes from musicians he has inspired over the years.
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That's a sweet tribute mate, Pete Shelley was undoubtedly on of the genuine greats, unique and true to himself. But one point: the Buzzcocks with Shelley fronting was their second incarnation, their first being with Howard Devoto as the front man, who also co-wrote with Shelley possibly THE seminal punk album, Spiral Scratch.
Pete Shelley Gone at 63 on 15:23 - Dec 8 by hubble
That's a sweet tribute mate, Pete Shelley was undoubtedly on of the genuine greats, unique and true to himself. But one point: the Buzzcocks with Shelley fronting was their second incarnation, their first being with Howard Devoto as the front man, who also co-wrote with Shelley possibly THE seminal punk album, Spiral Scratch.
I’d say he knows that.
Agree about Spiral Scratch, still enjoy listening to one of the seminal punk ‘EP’s’.
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