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| 1955 | Birth |  |
| Manchester Birth of Howard Devoto was born Howard Trotter |
| 1975 | Buzzcocks | |
| Buzzcocks record and released a four-track EP, Spiral Scratch on their own New Hormones label, making them perhaps the first punk group to establish an independent record label |
| Devoto leaves The Buzzcocks ; he returns to school for a year, then forms Magazine |
| Bolton The Buzzcocks are formed by guitarist/singer Pete Shelley (real name Peter McNeish) and singer Howard Devoto (real name Howard Trafford), both students at Bolton Institute of Technology (now the University of Bolton) |
| 1975 | New Hormones | |
| Buzzcocks record and released a four-track EP, Spiral Scratch on their own New Hormones label, making them perhaps the first punk group to establish an independent record label |
| 1977 | Magazine | |
| Manchester Devoto meets John McGeoch, a guitarist, they begin writing songs together, they form a band and called "Magazine" with Devoto on vocals and McGeoch on guitar |
| 1979 | Magazine | |
| Magazine release "Secondhand Daylight" |
| 1980 | Magazine | |
| 1981 | Magazine | |
| Devoto leaves the band, more or less ending the band since it was so closely identified with him |
| Simon's replacement, Ben Mandelson, is on hand for Magazine's final original album, Magic, Murder and the Weather |
| 1983 | Magazine | |
| Devoto mounts a solo career, releasing "Jerky Versions of the Dream" |
| 1988 | Luxuria | |
| Devoto and guitarist Noko team up under the name Luxuria and release two albums, Unanswerable Lust (1988) and Beast Box (1990) |
| 2002 | Buzzcocks | |
| Shelley and Devoto teamed up for the first time since 1976, producing the album Buzzkunst, a play on the German word for 'Art' |
