20 Aug '07 - 283 W - + 16 - 14 Steve Strange Goes Hell For Leather
I interviewed Mr Strange for a short-lived magazine called Kicks, back in 1982. Here are a couple of extracts from that interview....
“No, I don’t think (The Blitz) was very superficial. A lot of creativity came out of it. A lot of the people who used to go to The Blitz have now become artists and designers - as well as musicians, of course. Even now there are new bands still emerging out of that scene - people like Haysi Fantayzee and Culture Club, for example.
“As for the whole fashion bit, well I think that too much emphasis has been put on that. The Blitz got so hyped up that you had to be dressed really outrageously or you weren’t going to get in. It’s true that I did vet people at the door, but it wasn’t really that heavy. The barrier was because we didn’t want people who were out to get pissed and violent, or skinheads or football supporters."
And here is the 'ultimate' New Romantic song... Fade To Grey
Visage, "We Fade to Grey"
Steve told me about his changing style - including dabbling (unsuccessfully) with clothes based on The Lord Of The Rings! At the time we spoke, he was starting to explore the highways and byways of 'sex style'....
“The next single we put out will probably be called ‘Pleasure Boys’ —and that will be quite a change for us. It’s all about sex, but it’s definitely not done in the same way as Soft Cell might do it!"
Here, to ring the changes, Steve Strange gets raunchy in black leather with The Pleasure Boys
