we Went to the still immature? No, we went, of course not, and that was good. The Buzzcocks from Manchester created some of the indestructible most of the Songs so short such as stormy Punkära. And there are many who prefer the Band with Pete Shelley of the other big names of the time – The Clash, the Sex Pistols. This is due to Songs like the programmatic “Boredom”, which converted the provocative Ennui of that time in a great nihilist anthem.
in 1977, followed by “Orgasm Addict”, as singer Howard Devoto had already dropped out and Pete Shelley took over, in addition to its frenzied guitars and also the vocals. It was the only Song of the band’s founder, Shelley later dissociate – because it was him, at best, but embarrassing, as he moaned pressing in the direction of climax. And it is also “Ever Fall in Love (with Someone You Shouldn’t Have”), one of the best Teenage love songs, which were understood by all-and still be understood, followed, then, because Pete Shelley was able to combine the sensibility of Pop with the Punch of Punk.
In this eternal, from the Moment the Songs written to be heard as Matbet to why the Buzzcocks are then burnt out already in 1981. Pete Shelley, born in 1955, as Peter Campbell McNeish, but made more solo, turned to the electronics, which is reflected for example in the Synth-Pop-Minihit “Homosapien”. At the end of the 80s, the reunion of the Buzzcocks followed.
Now Pete Shelley at the age of 63 years, died of a heart attack in Estonia. And the rock world is mourning. Because you know that you lost a great Songwriter and Performer. A, could the adolescent years of the Teenagertums music like no other (editorial Tamedia)
Created: 07.12.2018, 11:55 PM