
Pete Shelley, center, flanked by Buzzcocks bandmates Garth Smith and Steve Diggle, London, March 11, 1977.
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Pete Shelley Was the Bleeding Heart on Punk's Loud Fast Sleeve
Punk-rockers fall in and out of love, too, Pete Shelley and the Buzzcocks told us in a blistering catalog of 2- and 3-minute singles that redrew the contours of punk and singlehandedly made the adjective "punk-pop" possible. We remember a unique, and much-imitated, rock pioneer.