Steve Diggle

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Steve Diggle
Origin Manchester, England
Genre(s) Punk rock
Instrument(s) Guitar, bass guitar, vocals
Associated acts Buzzcocks, Flag of Convenience
Website Official website

Steve Diggle (b. Moss Side, Manchester) is a guitarist and secondary lead vocalist in the British punk band Buzzcocks. He joined the band in 1976, playing bass on their Spiral Scratch EP, and switched to guitar after the departure of founding member Howard Devoto.

Steve Diggle wrote several songs for the Buzzcocks, including "Autonomy", "Fast Cars" (co-written with Howard Devoto and Pete Shelley), "Love Is Lies" (perhaps the first Buzzcocks song featuring an acoustic guitar), "Sitting Round At Home", "You Know You Can't Help It", "Mad Mad Judy", and, perhaps his most famous song, "Harmony in My Head", a Top 40 hit in 1979.

In 1991 Steve had a son named Jack with girlfriend Judith (for whom he wrote the song "Mad Mad Judy").

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[edit] Solo Projects

[edit] Serious Contender

Released in the UK in 2005 on the EMI UK label.

[edit] Track listing

  1. Serious Contender
  2. Lie in Bed
  3. Hard Highway
  4. Wallpaper World
  5. See Through You
  6. Starbucks Around The World
  7. Across The Sun
  8. Round and Round
  9. Terminal
  10. If I Never Get To Heaven
  11. Jetfighter
  12. Shake the System
  13. Early Grave

[edit] Some Reality

Released in the UK in 2000.

[edit] Track listing

  1. Just Because
  2. Playing With Fire
  3. Where You're From
  4. Time of Your life
  5. Blowing Hot
  6. Three Sheets to the Wind
  7. What Else Can You Do
  8. Something in Your Mind
  9. Heavy Hammer
  10. All Around Your Face
  11. Turning Point

[edit] Best of Steve Diggle & Flag of Convenience: the Secret Public Years 1981-1989

Released in the UK 1994 on Anagram Records.

[edit] Track listing

  1. Fifty Years of Comparative Wealth
  2. Shut Out the Light
  3. Here Comes the Fire Brigade
  4. Life on the Telephone
  5. Picking Up on Audio Sound
  6. Other Mans Sin
  7. Men From the City
  8. Who Is Innocent
  9. Drift Away
  10. Change
  11. Longest Life
  12. Arrow Has Come
  13. Keep on Pushin'
  14. Pictures in My Mind
  15. Last Train to Safety
  16. Exiles
  17. Can't Stop the World
  18. Shot Down With a Gun
  19. Tragedy in Market Street
  20. Tomorrows Sunset

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