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Apr 21, 2022
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AVING quit Buzzcocks after their 1977 “Spiral Scratch” EP, singer Howard Devoto was seeking a new collaborator when sleeve designer Malcolm Garrett told him: “The guy I share a house with can play all the parts to on guitar.” As it happened, John McGeoch could do more than ape Television. His work with Devoto’s new band Magazine and later Siouxsie And The Banshees established a spiky tonal palette that would be endlessly imitated in the 1980s. “He played like no-one else,” says Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite in Rory Sullivan-Burke’s . “I
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