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WHAT do we want from a music memoir? The odd musical or lyrical insight perhaps, the story behind a song, or the inspiration behind a riff. But now…
A CAMPAIGN which has been working to ensure the legacy of a Leigh-born punk icon lives on has teamed up with a record shop in Bolton.
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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 th...
The 100 Best Alternative Singles of the 1980s: 60 – 41 We present the best punk, post-punk, new wave, college rock, goth, industrial, new romantic, ska, power pop, hardcore, and indie rock singles of the 1980s. 60. The Human League – “Love Action (I Believe in Love)” (1981) British new wave pioneers the Human League formed in Sheffield in the late ’70s. Their early recordings were raw and primitive, using basic synthesizers and not much melody. That changed as the group’s membership expanded in 1980 with the additions of Joanne Catherall and Susan Ann Sulley. Their 1981 album Dar...