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WHAT THE ?!
REVOLUTION
1980, Steve Strange’s call to join the party
1980, Private worlds of the new young
1980, Who was who in Spandau’s break-out year
Three wizards who changed the 80s
Key to the Blitz cult’s lift-off
1981, First Blitz invasion of the US
Defining the Swinging Eighties at the Observer Music Monthly
CLUBBING
69 Dean Street and the making of UK club culture
1978, When French semioticians come stalking Le Palace, you know it’s serious
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
190+ 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
1980, Blitz Kids’ outfits start making headlines
1980, First steps by Hatter Stephen Jones
1982, Strange takes fashion to the French
1983, Crucial tipping point for the UK’s Fashion First Team
1983, Showdown for Worlds End, Vivienne and Malcolm
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
Giants who went before
1962, One TV show changes the way the British laugh
1965, Little-seen early Bowie videos
1966, More popular than Jesus: the Lennon interview
Maureen Cleave’s interview gems
1970 – Dusty at 30: coming out to Ray Connolly
Connolly: Fifty years an interviewer
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
THEY SAID IT
INDEX
News — old faces, new mixes
Culture corner hotlinks
St Martin’s shooting stars
Reluctant Emigres81-LInard-Dylan
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➤ The Blitz Kids WATN? No 28, Stephen Linard
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