How Buzzcocks Invented the Pop-Punk Musical Genre With Their 1979 Song ‘Ever Fallen In Love’
Music essayist Trash Theory takes a look at Buzzcocks song "
Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)?, noting that while the band is pure punk rock and the song has punk roots, it also has a universal appeal that's more closely associated with pop music, the very first of its kind.
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