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 ...

Once upon a time, music journo Mikal Gilmore declared that Singles Going Steady, the Buzzcocks’ 1979 landmark, “boasted as many pithy hooks and punchy backbeats as Elton John managed in a decade.” ...

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 ...

Amid a cornucopia of delights in the new issue of Uncut – in UK shops now or available to buy online by clicking here – there's a deep dive into the making of Buzzcocks' classic 1979 single, "Harmony ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Hard-nosed punk historians have always been very sniffy about 1978. God, no, not that frightful year when punk “went mainstream” and “became new wave”. But people who grew up in that period are more ...

Thirty-two years ago, a young British punk-pop band, Buzzcocks, recorded a song called “Nostalgia.” It included these words from singer/guitarist Pete Shelley: “My future and my past are presently ...

Pete Shelley, the Manchester-born co-founder, singer and guitarist of the influential British punk band Buzzcocks, died Thursday in Tallinn, Estonia, at the age of 63. The news was confirmed, "with ...