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- It Only Looks as If It Hurts
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- Person
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- Male
- Origin
- 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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Howard Devoto, Howard Trafford de son vrai nom, né en 1952 à Scunthorpe, est un chanteur et compositeur britannique. Il étudie à l'Université de Bolton. Il est l'un des fondateurs du groupe punk Buzzcocks, puis de Magazine. Il poursuit parallèlement une carrière solo marquée notamment par la sortie en 1983 de l'album Jerky versions of the dream qui remporte un important succès critique.
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