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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Entertainment
Martin Robinson

Blitz: The Club That Created the Eighties – The brave dreamers who defined the 1980s

This vivid account of the legendary Blitz club was written by one of the key players on a scene that set the tone and style for 1980s culture — through Steve Strange, Spandau Ballet, Boy George and Marilyn — and comes off the back of a show at the Design Museum dedicated to the place. At the exhibition, there are clothes, posters, memorabilia, videos, handwritten notes — seemingly every available scrap of material which can shed any light on this Soho club, which only ran for a little over a year.

See also: Spandau Ballet on the Blitz club, Bowie and turning the world Technicolour

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