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Howard Devoto
United Kingdom • b. 1952-03-15
Howard Devoto is credited on 785 releases across 200 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1977–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
785
Pressings credited
200
Albums
6
Decades active
258
In collections
Biography
Howard Devoto (born Howard Andrew Trafford, 15 March 1952) is an English singer and songwriter, who began his career as the frontman for punk rock band Buzzcocks, but then left to form Magazine, an early post-punk band. After Magazine, he went solo and later formed indie band Luxuria.
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Credited work
785 releases · 200 albums · active 1977–2025
- Performance · 1,908
- Other credits · 475
- Production · 44
Studios: Abbey Road Studios · Blackwing Studios · Olympic Studios · Strawberry Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Singles Going Steady
1979
Another Music In A Different Kitchen
1978
Love Bites
1978
Real Life
1978
The Correct Use Of Soap
1980
It'll End In Tears
1984
Secondhand Daylight
1979
Spiral Scratch
1977
URGH! A Music War
1981
Magic, Murder And The Weather
1981
Play
1980
Closed For Business
1997
Operators Manual - Buzzcocks Best
1991
Should The World Fail To Fall Apart
1986
3
2009
Animositisomina
2003
Being A Girl (Part One)
1998
Unanswerable Lust
1988
One Pound Ninety-Nine (A Music Sampler Of The State Of Things)
1985
Shot By Both Sides
1978
The Dead Flowers Reject
2020
Memento Mori
2018
A Different Compilation
2011
Graffiti Soul
2009
Frequent collaborators
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