By the summer of ’83, a new pop establishment ruled the mainstream music charts while a new executive ruled London’s burgeoning clubbing scene after dark. Meet the jacks and jokers who fronted the capital’s hottest nightclubs
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First published under the monthly Nightlife tag in The Face, July 1983
Posted in Clubbing, London, Pop music, Social trends, Youth culture
Tagged Chris Sullivan, Dencil Williams, Ollie O'Donnell, Paul Bernstock, Philip Sallon, Reviews, Rob Milton, Soho, The Face, Tipping points
69 Dean Street is an address implanted somewhere in the folk memory of every Face reader. During the four years when the launchpad for musical experiment shifted from traditional rock gigs to the dancefloor, one Soho building became a factory farm that has fattened each passing cult en route to today’s richly flavoured mainstream…
➢➢ Click here to read The making of club culture, published in The Face, February 1983
Posted in Chronology, Clubbing, Culture, London, Media, Pop music, Social trends, Youth culture
Tagged 69 Dean Street, Batcave, Billy’s club, Bowie Night, Comedy Store, David Ogilvy, Don Ward, Gargoyle club, Gaz’s Rockin’ Blues, Gossips club, Matisse, Meard Street, Mick Collins, Rusty Egan, Soho, The Face, The Red Studio, Tipping points
Townshend assesses Hendrix: “a very unremarkable-looking guy ... but onstage, very erotic”
❚ JIMI HENDRIX CAME TOP IN ROLLING STONE’S 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, compiled by David Fricke and the editors when announced in 2003. The Who’s Pete Townshend (himself positioned only at No 50) extolled at articulate length the profound spirituality of Hendrix, who died with the Swinging 60s at the age of 27…
“ I feel sad for people who have to judge Jimi Hendrix on the basis of recordings and film alone; because in the flesh he was so extraordinary. He had a kind of alchemist’s ability; when he was on the stage, he changed. He physically changed. He became incredibly graceful and beautiful. It wasn’t just people taking LSD, though that was going on, there’s no question. But he had a power that almost sobered you up if you were on an acid trip. He was bigger than LSD.”
➢ Read: 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time at Rolling Stone
✱ Deejay legend Robbie Vincent has returned to JazzFM on Sundays 1-3pm… Catch up on Robbie’s JazzFM August Bank Holiday 2020 session thanks to AhhhhhSoul with four hours of “nothing but essential rhythms of soul, jazz and funk”.
◆ 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
✱ 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 80s
✱ Jawing at Soho Radio on the 80s clubland revolution (from 32 mins) and on art (@55 mins) is probably the most influential shaper of the 80s, former Wag-club director Chris Sullivan (pictured) with editor of this website David Johnson
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✱ “I’m not a rock star” Bowie often said – No, David, you were a messiah – Obituaries and key videos about
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✱ Prince Rogers Nelson RIP: ‘A funny cat’ and ‘sole authentic genius’ of the 1980s
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