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Martin Robinson

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

Spandau Ballet Camberwell 1980 - (Graham Smith)

The Blitz club is open again, this time at the Design museum, where a new exhibition is dedicated to one of the most legendary nightspots in London history.

For those to square or too young to be familiar with it, the Blitz was a bar in Covent Garden which hosted a special night each Tuesday at the dawn of the 80s which became a post-Bowie flamboyant creative scene grown from the ashes of punk, which - with its mix of Weimer decadence and Rocky Horror camp, electro music and DIY glamour - set the tone for pop and style in the following decade.

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