Great musician and landmark band. Glad I got to see them a few years ago, after having seen them only one other time back in 1991. The Buzzcocks were Manchester's first punk band, and the first important English punk band to come from outside London, making them pioneers of a scene that would be one of (for lack of a better word) alternative music's leading edges in the 80s and 90s. Before Oasis, Happy Mondays, New Order, The Smiths, Magazine (featuring founding Buzzcock Howard Devoto) or Joy Division, there were The Buzzcocks. The funny thing being, of course, that they weren't much like the bands that followed them.
RIP Pete.