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KEEN to show that Buzzcocks had not lost touch with their roots after enjoying the most successful year of their musical career, Pete Shelley published the band’s August 1977-August 1978 accounts in the band’s Secret Public fan club magazine, showing that, in the year of “Ever Fallen In Love”, the greatest pop-punk band of all time made a mere £3,108. “When everyone’s making the kind of money people think is being made, we’ll probably not tell you,” he wrote.
A modest prophet, infinitely, writer and sometime Buzzcocks merch lady Louie Shelley (no relation) strives to tell the singer’s story based on a series of interviews she did with him in 2012 and 2013, with a view to writing a song-by-song Buzzcocks guide. True to form, Shelley proved to be a funny, open interviewee while simultaneously not giving that much away.
