From bass player to lead guitarist, singer to 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. The narrative captures the complexities of Diggle and Shelleys friendship a bond that endured through the bands rise, fall, and rise again. This book details the Buzzcocks origins, from supporting the Sex Pistols with original singer Howard Devoto, to Top of the Pops, the excess of success, the 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 rocknroll spirit.
