Dec 5, 1979: Spandau Ballet’s debut at the Blitz. Pictured by Ted Polhemus
British youth culture at its finest [This website launched in 2009]
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- 1981, Six golden rules for keeping Studio 54 ahead of the pack
- 1981: Quest for the most unbelievably unpalatable cocktail
- 1983, Posing with a purpose at the Camden Palace
- 1983, Who’s who in the New London Weekend
- Ace faces, always there!
- 2016, Young guns remember George Michael
- Simper’s history of 80s clubland
- BLITZ KIDS
- Exclusive: Blitz Club pix in colour – 1
- Exclusive: Blitz Club pix in colour – 2
- 1980, Just don’t call us New Romantics
- 1980, Bowie recruits Blitz Kids for his Ashes video
- 1981, The Romantics – a mainstream deejay’s guide
- 1982, Who’s Who in the Pits
- 1982, Strange takes fashion to the French
- RIP, Steve Strange, King of the Posers
- Whey-aye man, it’s Geordie Judi!
- 2010, Blitz Kids review the play about Boy George
- Smith & Sullivan’s definitive clubland photo book
- 2018, More unseen Blitz pix offered for sale
- SOUND+VISION
- 200+ acts who set the style for the new music of the 1980s
- 1980 ➤ Starting gun for British clubland bands
- 1981, Birth of Duran’s Planet Earth
- 1981, Lift-off in Birmingham
- 1981, Blue Rondo create a new buzz with Latin sounds and an extreme suited dude look
- Origins on video ♫ ♫
- 1982, Sade’s first foray to New York City
- 2009, On tour with the reformed Spandau Ballet
- 2010, Spandau overseas: so British, so gracious
- 2010, Paradise Point: live leaders of a new Brit pop blitz
- 2011, Tony Hadley band wow US fans
- 2011, Duran Duran celebrated in video
- MODES
- N-S-N-S
- THE FACE & i-D
- 1980, ‘Your i-D counts more than fashion’
- 1982, Ten years of dance and stance led by the Gold Mine
- 1983, Hacienda navigates the coalition of all the cults
- 1983, The year of “Go For It”
- 1983, Deciphering the code of the Padded Cell
- 1983, Shock report on art-schools in crisis
- 1983, When Alternative wasn’t trendy and Trendy was naff
- 1983, Jay Strongman on the year of Go For It
- ORIGINS
- SEISMIC SHIFTS
- 1980, A new decade demands new comedy
- 1983, Hockney’s new vision of the world
- 1983: Showdown for Worlds End, Vivienne and Malcolm
- 1984, Shenanigans behind the Band Aid hit single
- McLaren’s ‘Requiem to Myself’
- 2010, A giant dies: Charlie Gillett
- 2011, Hilary Alexander throws in the trowel
- 2016, David Bowie is dead
- 2018, Cherry-picker Judy Blame
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