Larry Cassidy obituary

Frontman of the post-punk band Section 25The records of the Blackpool-based band Section 25, fronted by Larry Cassidy, who has died of a blood clot aged 56, captured the darkness of the post-punk period in the early 1980s. Section 25's melancholic disco-punk brought them comparisons with Joy Division in the music press, which never really understood them. Mistakenly seen as one of the lesser acts on Tony Wilson's Factory Records label, Section 25 were – according to Peter Hook – on...

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