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Howard Devoto talks about Punk's Year Zero

Kieron Tyler, Record Collector, May 2000

"I'M TIRED OF noise and short of breath. I'm sick of having to address people out of breath and under my breath." That was how Howard Devoto explained his departure from Buzzcocks to the NME at the beginning of February 1977.

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