#buzzcocks 1978

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FACES IN NEW WAVE & POWER POP IN THE SUPER-SEVENTIES -- THE UNDERGROUND TURNS ACCESSIBLE.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on UK punk rock band BUZZCOCKS (during the band's "Another Music..."/Love Bites" line-up), posing with vocalist Debbie Harry during BLONDIE's 1978 European Tour, on September 4, 1978, Nijmegen, Holland. 📸: Chris Stein (BLONDIE guitarist).

1978 BUZZCOCKS line-up:

Pete Shelley – lead guitar, lead vocals

Steve Diggle – rhythm guitar, backing vocals

Steve Garvey – bass guitar

John Maher – drums, percussion

Source: https://devorahostrov.blogspot.com/2017/07/while-buzzcocks-toured-usa-in-support.html, various, etc...

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"I WAS SO EXCITED WHEN I HEARD WE SECURED THOSE EUROPEAN SUPPORT SLOTS WITH BLONDIE!"

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on BUZZCOCKS drummer John Maher (then age 18!) photographed with his arm around Debbie Harry of BLONDIE, whom BUZZCOCKS supported in Belgium on September 6, 1978. 📸: Chris Stein.

JOHN MAHER: "When I was 16 I had a Debbie Harry poster on my bedroom door. Two years later, we had our arms around each other!

Sharing those pics of Debbie and me hugging each other generated quite a reaction. I still find it hard to believe it actually happened. I was so excited when I heard we secured those European support slots with Blondie! I was eighteen. I’d never been outside the UK before.  The night before the first show, I was like a kid at Christmas. Despite the hours of travelling, I was absolutely wide awake when we arrived in Amsterdam. I remember going for a beer with our manager Richard Boon and tour manager Pete Monks. We sat outdoors, drinking foreign lager on a warm summer night. I was literally giddy with excitement. Richard and Pete were laughing at me. I asked them what was wrong. Richard told me I was experiencing "culture shock." I didn’t know what he meant. I was high on the whole experience of being somewhere other than Manchester, drinking lager outdoors in an exotic European city, knowing I would meet Debbie Harry and Clem Burke in less than 24 hours!"

-- LOUDER THAN WAR, "Nostalgia For An Age Yet To Come: ex-BUZZCOCKS current PENETRATION drummer John Maher interviewed by Ged Babey," published August 31, 2015

Source: https://louderthanwar.com/nostalgia-age-yet-come-ex-buzzcocks-current-penetration-drummer-john-maher-interviewed-ged-babey & X.

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70s UK PUNK MORPHS INTO POWER POP, NEW WAVE, POST-PUNK, & DUB MUSIC IN 1978.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on a BUZZCOCKS / SLITS UK concert tour poster for March 1978.

"What a great lineup. 2 of the best on the same bill. BUZZCOCKS also took JOY DIVISION out with them later, so they had taste."

-- BRISTOL PUNK FLYERS (Instagram fan page)

Source: www.picuki.com/media/3407757672527739985.