Summary
After 16 years as a librarian, why has Howard Devoto reformed the band whose brief life inspired a generation, asks Aidan Smith
THERE'S famous for 15 minutes and there's being offered 15- minute chats with Kajagoogoo, relentlessly all summer, a PR onslaught intensified by the e-mails now appearing in bold red print. Meanwhile, with Magazine coming to town accompanied by the minimum of fuss and bother, it's obvious that some band reunions just sell themselves.See the full content of this document
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In the scheme of things, Magazine's time seemed to last rather less than a quarter of an hour; they were the group Howard Devoto formed after his even more fleeting involvement with the Buzzcocks. Always shy and retiring, you imagine that quitting music to work in a library must have suited him fine, and he stuck at that for 16 yea...
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