Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- It Only Looks as If It Hurts
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1952-03-15
classic pop and rock
Discography
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- 9,885
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- 85,980
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Howard Devoto (born Howard Trafford on 15 March 1952 in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire) is an influential singer/songwriter who began his career as the frontman for the punk band Buzzcocks.Leaving after only one EP, he formed the more genre-defying Magazine in 1977. After Magazine split in 1981 he spent two years putting together a solo album with former Magazine keyboard player Dave Formula. While most critics believed the thin production and underworked ideas of Jerky Versions of the Dream ref
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Andrew
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Scunthorpe
- Occupation
- singer-songwriter
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- new wave
- Instrument
- voice
- Image
- Howard devoto.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1952-03-15
- Commons category
- Howard Devoto
- start of work period
- 1976-00-00
- pseudonym
- Howard Devoto
- birth name
- Howard Andrew Trafford
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