Stephen E. Diggle is a musician mostly known for playing guitar and doing backing vocals in the punk band Buzzcocks. He was born May 7th, 1955, in Manchester, England.

When Buzzcocks split in 1981, Diggle tried doing some solo work, releasing his “50 Years of Comparative Wealth” EP (also with Steve Garvey and John Maher, both from the old band) a couple of months later. The next year, he formed a new group called Flag of Convenience alongside John Maher, ex-Buzzcocks drummer.

Allmusic reviewed his post-Buzzcocks ‘best of’ compilation “The Secret Public Years 1981-1989” and posed that all the F.O.C. work to come after this compilation could be used as evidence to prove that Diggle was “one of the most important and overlooked artists in all of Britain during the ‘80s”.