A total stranger suddenly appeared at the window. I was having a blast on it before heading home. I have a drum kit set up in the workshop. We created some great music and it played an important part in many peoples’ lives. Buzzcocks are still talked about here, there and everywhere and cited as an influence by bands old and new.
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We’re almost 40 years on from our first gig with the Sex Pistols at Manchester’s Lesser Free Trade Hall. Fast forward a few decades, I’m looking at it from a different perspective and with less baggage. It wasn’t that I didn’t want to talk about my Buzzcocks days, I just felt I’d moved on and didn’t want to be only defined by what I’d done in the past. It wasn’t a conscious decision to play down or avoid mention of my earlier life as a Buzzcock, but people who knew me at the time said I gave the impression that discussion about the punk years was forbidden. By then I was into fast cars: campaigning a couple of VW drag race cars and building high performance engines for which I gained some notoriety and success. In the mid ‘80s I withdrew from the music scene to pursue other interests. The nostalgia trip’s been prompted by a number of things. You seem to have been getting a bit nostalgic on facebook lately, posting some great old photos from Buzzcocks days. It’s an honour – even though t he poor bugger went through its entire life having its name mis-pronounced. We’ve had cats over the years all named after Buzzcocks, even Howard, but Mayer was the best. They’d be called migrants in today’s terminology. There was a large contingent of Irish catholics in those parts of Manchester back then. I think Johnny’s parents are both Irish too. He was christened Maher as well and changed it to Marr to avoid confusion with me, so legend has it. (John) Yep, rhymes with ‘car’ or Mars bar or as in Johnny Marr. (Ged) I always used to mispronounce your surname, it’s Maarr isn’t it, not May-err? Sorry.
In a rare exclusive interview John Maher tells his side of the story of punk, Buzzcocks, hanging with Blondie, punk nostalgia and a different kind of tension.
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