Pete Shelley
Pete Shelley
Pete Shelleyis an English singer, songwriter and guitarist, best known as the leader of Buzzcocks...
ProfessionPunk Singer
Date of Birth17 April 1955
borrow car charles fare friend hatched home house instead involved meeting money pay petrol plans plot president stop students took train union
I was involved in the students' union and I had a meeting in London, chaired by the president of the students' union Charles Clarke (now Home Secretary). Howard had no plans for the weekend, so we hatched this plot whereby I took the money for the train fare, but, instead of getting the train, he could borrow a car off a friend, the train fare would pay for petrol and we could stop at his friend Richard's house in Reading,
awful ball cut easiest rather seemed short space tangled time
We'd done an awful lot in a short space of time and it seemed easiest to cut the Gordian knot rather than try and untangle the big tangled ball of string.