Flag Of Convenience: a C.H.A.I.N. R.E.A.C.T.I.O.N.
Richard Cook, NME, 23 October 1982
Is there life after Buzzcocks? Steve Diggle and John Maher are trying again. After the passive disintegration of Buzzcocks in the spring of 1981, the two industrious workers from the hardest pop group we ever knew have been quieter and less conspicuous than their romantic colleague Peter Shelley.
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