SB14-RAH0580ps-dj (original) (raw)

• Home
• 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, What made Blitz Kids unique
  • 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

The old gang: Spandau biographer Paul “Scoop” Simper