How Buzzcocks’ Pete Shelley swapped punk for synths and queer-pop electro

How Buzzcocks’ Pete Shelley swapped punk for synths and queer-pop electro

Hits like ‘Ever Fallen in Love’ made the Mancunian punk’s sensitive bard – until he recast himself as a queer-pop electro pioneer and found himself banned by the BBC. Stevie Chick revisits a musical trailblazer

Two Pete Shelley albums reissued

Domino Records have reissued two classic electronic albums by Pete Shelley of Buzzcocks. Homospaien and XL1are once again available. The new versions are remastered and feature bonus tracks. They are on CD and vinyl....

Pete Shelley - Homosapien/XL-1 (reissues, 1981, ’83)

When Pete Shelley returned to Genetic Studios in leafy Berkshire in February 1981, the plan had been to sketch out songs for the fourth Buzzcocks album with the band’s trusted producer Martin Rushent. Trouble was, neither Shelley nor Rushent could face working on Buzzcocks material. That ship had sailed: 1980 was not a vintage year for the band whose effervescent power-pop had shown that punk could be fun and vulnerable, whose run of blistering …