Buzzcocks were one of the "brainier" punk bands to emerge from England's first wave. As Pete Shelley told The Quietus, "Both me and Howard Devoto did humanities at Bolton Institute of Technology [where they also received honorary doctorates in July 2009]. I was doing philosophy and comparative European literature when Buzzcocks started. As Steve Diggle says, we were punks with library cards."
After leaving the Buzzcocks in 1977, singer Howard Devoto went on to form the popular post-punk outfit, Magazine.
During the Buzzcocks' split in the mid '80s, Pete Shelley issued several solo albums (the most popular being 1983's XL1), while Steve Diggle formed a new band, Flag of Convenience.
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