Hits like ‘Ever Fallen in Love’ made the Mancunian punk’s sensitive bard – until he recast himself as a queer-pop electro pioneer and found himself banned by the BBC. Stevie Chick revisits a musical trailblazer
‘We invented karaoke!’ – how Buzzcocks’ Pete Shelley swapped his punk-pop crown for synths, Spectrums and sexual censorship … from the Independent Stevie Chick
