Pete Shelley - Buzzcocks singer

[172traindriver]

Just seen on BBC news he has passed away suddenly.
Happy days watching him and others leading the punk movement.
RIP Pete

 

[Accy cyclist]

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.

 

[nickyboy]

That's sad. He was very talented. Used to love the Buzzcocks

 

[Adam4868]

Too young,saw them a few times.RIP

 

[Grant Fondo]

Leigh's finest gone. Sad day

 

[The Crofted Crest]

That is really sad news. RIP, Pete.

 

[Accy cyclist]

"Sop chuckin' f..k..g beer mats you self-gratification artists,or we go off" said Pete Shelly to the audience when someone found a box of them behind the bar and passed them around so we could throw them at the stage in appreciation. Heck that was 40 long years ago!

I wonder if he shortened his first name to stop being confused with this bloke?

 

[greenmark]

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

 

[Accy cyclist]

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

But i thought the opening song in the 80's and 90's was this one?

 

[GuyBoden]

RIP Pete Shelley

The first guitar riff I learned back in 1977, was Boredom by Buzzcocks. (Off the Spiral Scratch EP with Devoto singing)
The two note solo was beyond my ability.Great stuff at the time.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoYiQ8Qsozk

 

[winjim]

Oh shoot.

 

[robjh]

Another part of my youth gone. I discovered the Buzzcocks in 1978 and absolutely loved them.

I still have some of their records in a box upstairs - Spiral Scratch, Everybody's Happy Nowadays, Ever Fallen in Love, as well as their first album (hm, not their greatest work) - and if I still had a turntable I would go off and play them now.

 

[nickyboy]

There were a few bands of the punk era that had genuine songwriting ability such as The Jam, The Damned, The Clash. I'd put the Buzzcocks up there with them

 

[Blue Hills]

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.

 

[Accy cyclist]

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.

I'm not too sure but i think maybe The Ramones were a support to The Buzzcocks at one of their Blackburn gigs. I know The Ramones were support band somewhere long the line at that venue. When you tell youngsters that you saw the Buzzcocks 3 times,The Ramones,The Clash 3 times, AC/DC and The Jam twice in Blackburn, they seem to think you're making it up. Mind you i felt the same when those older than me said they saw The Beatles and The Stones in places Like The Nelson Imperial near Burnley! https://www.beatlesbible.com/1963/05/11/live-imperial-ballroom-nelson/