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HOWARD DEVOTO gives good face. Unlined and triangular, topped with a vast expanse of forehead; the kind that popular folklore maintains is the unmistakeable dead-giveaway ...

Magazine: Real Life

Review by Jon Savage, Sounds, June 1978

'I'm faking an extravagant journey, also it seems to me...' ...

Magazine

Interview by Peter Silverton, Sounds, June 1978

I THINK it was the Jesuits of whom it was said they always answer a question with a question. Or maybe it was the Jews. ...

Magazine: The Lyceum, London

Live Review by Ian Penman, NME, August 1978

MAGAZINE, MYTHS AND MIRAGES ...

Howard Devoto: Calm And Confusion

Interview by Paul Morley, Ian Penman, NME, December 1978

WERE YOU a wimp at school?I wouldn't say I was a wimp. I think I did get bullied. ...

Howard Devoto: The Compleat Fatalist

Interview by Nick Kent, NME, April 1979

LATE THURSDAY afternoon. I am angry, very angry, for reasons that form too personal a tale but revolve around a head-on collision with hysterical illogicality. ...

Howard Devoto: Jerky Versions Of The Dream (Virgin)

Review by Barney Hoskyns, NME, 1983

I NEVER CARED much for Magazine. They were a group without a style, or at least a group whose style consisted in a profound lack. ...

Howard Devoto: Shot By Both Sides

Interview by Paul Morley, Uncut, November 2000

AND THEN, in 1976, when Howard Devoto was 24, he wrote and recorded four fast songs with the group Buzzcocks, and they became the EP ...

Magazine

Retrospective by Toby Manning, unpublished, 2005

IF EVER THERE was a soundtrack for the Cold War era, it was Magazine. Musically and lyrically, this definitive new wave band inhabited the wintry ...

Magazine: 'These gigs are a cherry on a cake'

Report and Interview by Nick Hasted, Independent, The, February 2009

THE ONE-TIME "most important man in pop" made a quietly triumphant comeback last week. Howard Devoto's Magazine, missing since 1981, were the most uncategorisable band ...