Buzzcocks played what turned out the be their final show on 23 January 1981. At this point, making a new album, their fourth, was on the table. Neither the band or the audience in Hamburg knew it was ...

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 ...

There were business problems. Buzzcocks' last album, A Different Kind Of Tension, was issued in September 1979. Three singles released in 1980 weren’t strong sellers. Their label Liberty wasn’t ...