Small bit on Shelley/Buzzcocks

[rs@mirror.TMC.COM (Rich Salz)]

The Buzzcocks did great fast pop/punk songs, but they weren't all about
girls, cars and modern life.  Shelley is openly gay, and if you listen
closely, all their love songs (and they did LOTS) pretty much come down
to "why don't you love me-me-me?"  The compilation "Singles Going Steady"
has most (if not all) of their early singles on it:  side 1 of the LP
is the A-sides, and side 2 is the B-sides.  Also, get "A Different
Kind of Tension."  This was their penultimate album, I think; it
came out in early 1980.  It's a pop masterpiece, all about alienation
and emptiness.

I heard once that Shelley's first single, "Homo Sapien," was banned
from BBC radio -- one of less than a half-dozen songs to be so treated.
(One line from the chorus was "homo superior / in my interior".)  Is
this true?

Also, wasn't Howard Devoto a member of the band, too?
	/r$
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