Pete Shelley

Pete Shelley was one of the more nuanced voices of the punk movement, bringing lyrical wit and a lightning-fast adaptation of hooky pop to the Buzzcocks as the band's leader in a time where many punk upstarts were getting by with as few chords as possible and an abundance of righteous anger. Before and after the Buzzcocks' first act, Shelley was an early adopter of synth pop, recording Sky Yen, a debut solo LP of experimental electronics, in the early '70s and returning to the more synthetic side of punk with his solo LP Homosapien when the Buzzcocks split up in 1981. The band...