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Spandau Ballet on the Blitz club, Bowie and turning the world Technicolour

With an early years box-set coming out and a Blitz club exhibition at the Design Museum, Martin Kemp and Steve Norman remember the vibrant scene that birthed Spandau

Evening Standard

“I was worried that Bowie would nick our ideas... which he did. I felt it was our turn, not his": Gary and Martin Kemp remember Spandau's early days and the Blitz club

Their mum insisted that Martin joined Spandau Ballet

MusicRadar

Strange days: how the Blitz club changed the 1980s – and fashion

A new exhibition looks at how the legendary London club spawned acts such as Spandau Ballet and Boy George – but also provided a petri dish for fashion and style to grow

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“That was a huge moment for me. It put me back in my place”: The insult that brought David Bowie down to Earth

Bowie later said that the dog walker’s jibe left a lasting impression

MusicRadar

How Leigh Bowery and the Blitz Kids defined 1980s subculture with make-up

As Leigh Bowery and the Blitz Kids of 1980s London are celebrated in a new exhibition at the Fashion and Textile Museum, Isobel Van Dyke explores the hair and make-up looks that defined them

Wallpaper

The wild influence of Leigh Bowery and London subculture club Taboo

As Outlaws opens at the Fashion and Textile Museum, throwing light on the outrageous underbelly of the 1980s avant-garde nightclub and its impresario Leigh Bowery, Dylan Jones recalls the place to be seen

Evening Standard

Remembering Rusty Egan's Blitz Club: a place to 'avoid the mob and the homophobes', where the New Romantics were born

As he releases new vinyl boxset, 'Blitzed!', Wallpaper* meets DJ Rusty Egan to talk about London's scene-building Blitz club – the antidote to the late 70s punk scene and a hot-bed of experimental fashion

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Anarchy in High Wycombe! The real story of the Sex Pistols’ earliest gigs

The punk band are famous for culture-changing gigs in Manchester and London, but what about ones in Keighley and Dunstable? Attendees at their first UK tour remember the protests, raw power – and cider-drinking hippies

The Guardian - UK

How a song written in 1974 turned up on Bowie's Let's Dance and unwittingly kicked off a controversy

In 1977, Metro’s single Criminal World was considered “too gay” for the BBC. By 1983, it was too suggestive for David Bowie too. 40 years later, its songwriter explains what it’s like when one of your songs turns up on the biggest albums of the 80s

MusicRadar

A moment that changed me: ‘My best friend and I would go clubbing and dream of a glamorous destiny. But then she died’

I was working in a shoe shop after leaving school and Alison and I would mingle with the beautiful people of London nightlife in the 80s. When she was killed in an accident, I had to face some cold, hard truths

The Guardian - UK

Visage outside Blitz nightclub … Sheila Rock’s best photograph

‘Blitz was where all the New Romantics hung out. If you didn’t look good, you didn’t get in. Steve Strange is at the front of the shot – with big hair’

The Guardian - UK

My London: Martin Kemp

The Spandau Ballet icon on a first date serenade by Sade, the giraffes of Regent’s Park and nights on the tiles with Michael Jackson

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