MORE INTERESTING THAN MOST PEOPLE’S FANTASIES — THE SWINGING EIGHTIES 1978-1984
They didn’t call themselves New Romantics, or the Blitz Kids – but other people did.
“I’d find people at the Blitz who were possible only in my imagination. But they were real” — Stephen Jones, hatmaker, 1983. (Illustration courtesy Iain R Webb, 1983)
“The truth about those Blitz club people was more interesting than most people’s fantasies” — Steve Dagger, pop group manager, 1983VINCENT ON AIR 2022
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◆ Who was who in Spandau’s break-out year of 1980? The Invisible Hand of Shapersofthe80s draws a selective timeline for The unprecedented rise and rise of Spandau Ballet –– Turn to our inside page
UNTOLD BLITZ STORIES
✱ If you thought there was no more to know about the birth of Blitz culture in 1980 then get your hands on a sensational book by an obsessive music fan called David Barrat. It is gripping, original and epic – a spooky tale of coincidence and parallel lives as mind-tingling as a Sherlock Holmes yarn. Titled both New Romantics Who Never Were and The Untold Story of Spandau Ballet! Sample this initial taster here at Shapers of the 80sCHEWING THE FAT
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2016, David Bowie is dead
➤ “I’m not a rock star” Bowie often said – No, David, you were a messiah Posted on 12 January, 2016 ◼ ALL 10 BRITISH NATIONAL NEWSPAPERS filled their front pages today with the death of David Bowie at 69 … Continue reading
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➤ Sotheby’s first David Bowie art auction raises twice the expected total sales figure
◼ PART 1 OF THE BOWIE/COLLECTOR SALE saw its 47 modern and contemporary artworks raise £24m tonight – just over twice the total of top prices estimated by Sotheby’s the auctioneer in advance. So the “Bowie premium” added to market … Continue reading
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2016 ➤ Bid for your own rare photo of David Bowie
◼ FOR THE NEXT 12 DAYS in central London a free exhibition titled David Bowie: Fame, Fashion, Photography is showing previously unseen archive photographs of the pop icon who died in January. The event is organised by a supporter of … Continue reading
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Tagged auction, Cancer Research UK, Chalkie Davies, David Bowie, Denis O’Regan, exhibition, Heddon Street, Tony McGee, Ziggy
➤ David Bowie 8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016
Posted on January 11, 2016 All-Bowie search here at Shapers of the 80s FRONT PAGE
11 Jan 2016 in Culture, Fashion, History, London, Media, North America, Pop music, Youth culture
Tagged cancer, David Bowie, dead, Duncan Jones, genius, organ, St Albans Cathedral, tribute
➤ Now David Bowie’s landlady tells her story of the lodger from Mars
◼ AS A STRUGGLING FOLK SINGER David Bowie was 22 years old and living with his parents in south-east London when, by chance, he met journalist Mary Finnigan, eight years his senior, and moved into her flat in Foxgrove Road, … Continue reading
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