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154 Views John McGeoch [far-right in the photo above]invented angular rock. His incendiary and highly ambitious guitar riffs electrified the post-punk era, the Scotsman’s distinctive style the melodic spine for the classic albums of Magazine, Visage, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and Public Image Ltd. It wasn’t until the Banshees’ fifth album, A Kiss in the Dreamhouse in 1982, that his reputation received widespread acclaim. Yet it was with Howard Devoto’s influential Magazine four years earlier that McGeoch first made his mark as a major talent, the blistering guitars during the opening to the band’s debut single, Shot By Both Sides, as appealing to his Manchester contemporaries as they would be inspiring to a host of new bands in the 90s and beyond: The Strokes, The Rapture, Maximo Park and The Futureheads all owed something to the sounds he forged. Despite the acclaim of musicians – including U2’s The Edge, Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood and John Frusciante fr

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