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- It Only Looks as If It Hurts
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- Person
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- Male
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- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1952-03-15
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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
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- 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
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- 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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Article · Deutsch
Howard Devoto, bürgerlich Howard Trafford, (* 15. März 1952 in Scunthorpe) ist ein britischer Rocksänger und Texter, der seine Karriere als Sänger der Punkband Buzzcocks begann, diese aber wenig später wieder verließ, um mit Magazine eine der ersten Postpunk-Bands zu gründen. Nach der Auflösung von Magazine widmete er sich einer Solokarriere und gründete später die Indie-Band Luxuria.
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