Spandau provided the new British electropop, Axiom the radical London fashion show, while Tina Turner and Robert de Niro joined the coolest audience in Manhattan…
First published in the first issue of New Sounds New Styles in July 1981
➤ Click here to read the full crazy tale of the Ballet on Broadway
Posted in Clubbing, Europe, North America, Pop music, Youth culture
Tagged August Darnell, Axiom, Blitz Kids, Henry Post, Jim Fourratt, Jon Mole Baker, Melissa Caplan, New Sounds New Styles, Rhonda Paster, Richard Buckley, Richard Burgess, Robert Elms, Sade Adu, Simon Withers, Spandau Ballet, Steve Dagger
Blue Rondo a la Turk was among the first of the Blitzworld’s new image bands to change the musical gear of 1981 towards a tongue-in-cheek collage of carnival rhythms. Fronted by future Wag club host Chris Sullivan, the eccentric seven-piece staged a series of invitation-only tease-dates through the summer of 1981. Their frantic music and their zoot suits were unveiled in the New Romantics’ magazine, New Sounds New Styles …
➢➢ Click here to read the first feature published about Rondo: “He thinks he’s Geronimo”
➢➢ VIEW ♫ fine Northern Soul footwork in the video for Klacto Vee Sedstein here:
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Tagged Blitz Kids, Chris Sullivan, New Romantics, New Sounds New Styles, Reviews, Tipping points, Video
✱ Deejay legend Robbie Vincent returned to JazzFM on Sundays 1-3pm in 2021… Catch 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 on the godlike one
✱ Prince Rogers Nelson RIP: ‘A funny cat’ and ‘sole authentic genius’ of the 1980s
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