Autonomy: Portrait of a Buzzcock by Steve Diggle

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From bass player to lead guitarist, singer and last remaining founding member, Steve Diggle has been the driving force keeping Buzzcocks alive since he first met Pete Shelley in 1976. Together they would ignite the Manchester music scene, kickstart indie and become one of the best loved and most influential punk groups of all time.Following Shelleys untimely death in 2018, Autonomy is Diggles definitive inside account of their shared musical legacy and complex friendship through the bands rise, fall, and rise again from their punk origins supporting Sex Pistols with original singer Howard Devoto to Top of the Pops, the excess of success, break-up, reformation and life beyond bereavement.Funny, honest and touchingly philosophical, it is also Diggles very personal story of working class escape, dreams, redemption and loss an ultimately heroic survivors tale from an irrepressible rock n roll spirit.