Never before published: Steve Strange, co-founder with deejay Rusty Egan of the legendary Tuesday night at the Blitz in London
➢ DAY ONE:
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GALLERY OF TEN FAB IMAGES
OF THE BLITZ IN COLOUR
◼ AN ENORMOUS NEW CACHE of photographs of the Blitz Club in colour has been discovered from the spring of 1980 when the UK media started to take an interest in the Tuesday-night antics of the nightlife posers at Covent Garden’s Blitz Club. They were to become celebrated as the Blitz Kids by some and as New Romantics by others. Until this moment it has been easy to count the number of surviving professional pictures ever taken inside the Blitz during its 20-month life – all of them in black-and-white – and the total doesn’t even approach 100.
Now a call to Shapers of the 80s by the British photographer Terry Smith has unearthed probably 300 more images, commissioned by Time magazine. Many of them are in glorious colour, shedding extra light on the creativity of the night-owls who were in the throes of transforming the fashion and pop landscape of Britain in the Swinging 80s.
Shapers of the 80s today showcases the first of four batches of Terry’s pictures capturing the Blitz in colour, while a selling exhibition of his black-and-white images is preparing to open on 7 June in St Leonards-on-Sea.
Blitz Club 1980: Can you name these early New Romantics in the frilly-shirt posse?
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A frilly posse of New Romantics from Harlow at the Blitz 1980: from the left, Andy Bulled, Russell Williams, Jon Lockwood with golden “Seagull” quiff and Tommy Crowley.
Shapersofthe80s writes: Thanks, Barry. Been waiting yonks to put names to these guys.