As a “TV Ad Songs” website points out, “What Do I Get?” by Buzzcocks is used in a new UK McDonalds commercial advertising “Big Flavour Wraps”. As was the case in McDonald’s previous Big Flavour ...

Morrissey, a longtime champion of animal rights and an opponent of anyone serving meat as a food product, slammed fellow British rockers Buzzcocks after the group allowed their 1978 track “What Do I ...

Buzzcocks captured the imagination of a generation when the band released its debut, "Spiral Scratch", in 1976. "Time's Up!", a studio demo turned formal release, followed in 1978. The two of albums ...

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 ...

With Pete Shelley's sneering yet sweet voice and Steve Diggle's relentless guitar, Buzzcocks were the Mancunian punk misfits who made disaffection sound catchy. Their songs were anthems for the ...

Punk rock legend and Buzzcocks leader Steve Diggle constantly is looking forward with his music, regularly constructing songs and thinking about what comes next for the band. Yet at the same time, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Elvis Costello slapped slick production and keyboards on the sound, helping to shape New Wave. Joy Division and Wire turned their music into canvasses for ambitious art projects. The Clash were set to ...

Pete Shelley, lead singer of the English punk rock band Buzzcocks, died Thursday, according to his management team. He was 63. "It's with great sadness that we confirm the death of Pete Shelley, one ...