I was backstage with Buzzcocks at the Paradise Rock Club in Boston, November 1993, right after the four-piece group had played a ferocious life-and-punk-rock affirming set to a full house. It was just ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As he releases a new album 50 years after the birth of the band, the only surviving member talks about how they led the Big ...

LONDON (CBS SF) -- Pete Shelley, the guitarist and main songwriter for the influential British punk band the Buzzcocks, died Thursday at the age of 63 from an apparent heart attack. The BBC initially ...