But there’s wonderful songs like I Need, which is all about the difference between wanting and needing – the capitalist perplex! He used love songs to talk about all sorts of things: the nature of perception, the nature of implanted desire, the nature and the problems of love itself. I suppose my favourite song is Orgasm Addict, which is one of the wittiest songs ever about sex: so fast, so exciting, just perfect. He was sly, witty, and that was a different way of getting your message across. And certainly all the Buzzcocks’ mannerisms, their approach – he wasn’t confrontational. Pete later said he was bisexual, but even before that he said he wrote to appeal to both genders. Sex and gender roles were an important part of that to me, and Buzzcocks were singing about male vulnerability at a time when not many people were doing that. ‘I was struck by the openness’ … (from left) Pete Shelley, Steve Diggle, Garth Smith.
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