Pete Shelley
Pete Shelley
Pete Shelleyis an English singer, songwriter and guitarist, best known as the leader of Buzzcocks...
ProfessionPunk Singer
Date of Birth17 April 1955
beautiful oh staying
I've been staying at their lodge in the Himalayas for years, ... They have this beautiful lodge. You look out and there's Ama Dablam. Oh man, it's like heaven.
brought people realised
Without bigging it up extremely, it was something which brought people together, so they realised something was possible.
awful ball cut easiest rather seemed short space tangled time
We'd done an awful lot in a short space of time and it seemed easiest to cut the Gordian knot rather than try and untangle the big tangled ball of string.
business enthused felt mere mortals music people
It used to be felt that you had to know someone in the music business to get into it. It was not for mere mortals like us. This enthused people and enfranchised them to become part of culture.
third
They weren't headlining. They were third down the bill,
embraced forms last magic music somebody
It is very eclectic. That was the magic of John, though. He was somebody who embraced all forms of music over the last 40 years.
borrow car charles fare friend hatched home house instead involved meeting money pay petrol plans plot president stop students took train union
I was involved in the students' union and I had a meeting in London, chaired by the president of the students' union Charles Clarke (now Home Secretary). Howard had no plans for the weekend, so we hatched this plot whereby I took the money for the train fare, but, instead of getting the train, he could borrow a car off a friend, the train fare would pay for petrol and we could stop at his friend Richard's house in Reading,