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Buzzcocks

Great Britain · Arts / Music. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

15Records
1975–2005Date range
4Named people
2Places

Chronological records

1975

Howard Devoto1975

Arts / Popular Music

Devoto leaves The Buzzcocks; he returns to school for a year, then forms Magazine. Buzzcocks record and released a four-track EP, Spiral Scratch on their own New Hormones label, making them perhaps the first punk group to establish an independent record label

Howard Devoto1975

Bolton · Arts / Popular Music

The Buzzcocks are formed by guitarist/singer Pete Shelley (real name Peter McNeish) and singer Howard Devoto (real name Howard Trafford), both students at Bolton Institute of Technology (now the University of Bolton)

Martin Hannett1975

Arts / Popular Music

Produced by Martin Hannett, the music is roughly recorded, insistently repetitive, and energetic

Pete Shelley1975

Arts / Popular Music

Buzzcocks record and released a four-track EP, Spiral Scratch on their own New Hormones label, making them perhaps the first punk group to establish an independent record label

Pete Shelley1975

Manchester · Arts / Popular Music

The Buzzcocks are formed by guitarist/singer Pete Shelley (real name Peter McNeish) and singer Howard Devoto (real name Howard Trafford), both students at Bolton Institute of Technology (now the University of Bolton).

Pete Shelley1975

Manchester · Arts / Popular Music

The name "Buzzcocks" partially comes from the Manchester slang term cock meaning youngster.

Pete Shelley1975

Manchester · Arts / Popular Music

and its use in the 1970s ITV drama serial Rock Follies which included the catch phrases "thats the buzz, cocks" and "give me a buzz, cock!".

1978

Pete Shelley3 February 1978

Arts / Popular Music

The Buzzcocks release "What Do I Get"

Pete Shelley8 September 1978

Arts / Popular Music

The Buzzcocks release "Ever Fallen in Love?"

Pete Shelley1978

Arts / Popular Music

The Buzzcocks release "Another Music in a Different Kitchen"

1979

Pete Shelley1979

Arts / Popular Music

The Buzzcocks release "A Different Kind of Tension"

2002

Howard Devoto2002

Arts / Popular Music

Shelley and Devoto teamed up for the first time since 1976, producing the album Buzzkunst, a play on the German word for "Art"

Pete Shelley2002

Arts / Popular Music

Shelley and Devoto teamed up for the first time since 1976, producing the album Buzzkunst, a play on the German word for "Art"

2005

John Peel2005

Arts / Popular Music

Shelley re-records "Ever Fallen In Love" with an all-star group, including Roger Daltrey, David Gilmour, Peter Hook, Elton John, Robert Plant and several contemporary bands, as a tribute to John Peel

Pete Shelley2005

Arts / Popular Music

Shelley re-records "Ever Fallen In Love" with an all-star group, including Roger Daltrey, David Gilmour, Peter Hook, Elton John, Robert Plant and several contemporary bands, as a tribute to John Peel

Names involved

Howard DevotoJohn PeelMartin HannettPete Shelley

Provenance

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