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“We had no money, no management, and we’d been dropped by the label. But when we plugged in and played, it was the most magnificent thing”: Midge Ure’s prog moments with Ultravox, Robert Fripp, Kate Bush, Jethro Tull and, indirectly, Steven Wilson

Taking the same attitude to keyboards that he’d first taken to guitar, he regards his best 80s work as “synth prog” – and it’s difficult to disagree

Louder

“We're all fragile little creatures. You sit down, lick your wounds and think - is there any point in going through this whole process again?”: We speak to Midge Ure

Midge Ure reflects on fame, resilience and reinvention as he returns with new music and a cinematic live touring experience

MusicRadar

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

With an early years box-set coming out and a Blitz club exhibition at the Design Museum, Martin Kemp and Steve Norman remember the vibrant scene that birthed Spandau

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Strange days: how the Blitz club changed the 1980s – and fashion

A new exhibition looks at how the legendary London club spawned acts such as Spandau Ballet and Boy George – but also provided a petri dish for fashion and style to grow

The Guardian - UK

Blitz: Iconic nightclub that made the New Romantics famous celebrated in groundbreaking show

Spandau Ballet, Siobhan Fahey, Princess Julia and Boy George were all regulars

Evening Standard

“Ultimately, I believe it will be the end of mankind”: We catch up with synthpop legend Gary Numan to talk sampling, running a record label and the future of music

Following the reissue of his 1984 album Berserker, Gary Numan reminisces on the demise of Numa Records and the dangers of AI

MusicRadar

"I said Never Take Me Alive should be the single and the record company looked at me like, ‘That's commercial suicide!’ Luckily, it was a hit…” Spear Of Destiny's Kirk Brandon on hits, heart attacks and Theatre Of Hate

The indestructible Kirk Brandon on the unlikely origins of Theatre Of Hate and Spear Of Destiny and why he really is a dead man walking

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Midge Ure on reinvention, legacy and the Brexit backlash

IT would be fair to describe Midge Ure as a music legend. Born in Cambuslang, he joined the Glasgow band Stumble in 1969

The National (Scotland)

“Rock’n’roll is like Italian operetta. Everybody dies and loses.” Kirk Brandon looks back on Theatre Of Hate, Spear Of Destiny, heart attacks and his unlikely influences

The indestructible Kirk Brandon on the unlikely origins of Theatre Of Hate and Spear Of Destiny

Louder

Remembering Rusty Egan's Blitz Club: a place to 'avoid the mob and the homophobes', where the New Romantics were born

As he releases new vinyl boxset, 'Blitzed!', Wallpaper* meets DJ Rusty Egan to talk about London's scene-building Blitz club – the antidote to the late 70s punk scene and a hot-bed of experimental fashion

Wallpaper

He coined the term EDM, became the first ever computer musician, AND created the electronic drum kit... meet Richard James Burgess: “I said ‘one day all records will be made this way’, and that prediction came true”

The unsung hero of music production, Burgess has been there or thereabouts in just about every major innovation of the last 50 years…

MusicRadar

How a song written in 1974 turned up on Bowie's Let's Dance and unwittingly kicked off a controversy

In 1977, Metro’s single Criminal World was considered “too gay” for the BBC. By 1983, it was too suggestive for David Bowie too. 40 years later, its songwriter explains what it’s like when one of your songs turns up on the biggest albums of the 80s

MusicRadar

“I’m not gay!” How Bowie backtracked on his bisexuality for Let's Dance

In 1977, Metro’s Criminal World was considered “too gay” for the BBC. By 1983, it was too suggestive for David Bowie too

Louder

Visage outside Blitz nightclub … Sheila Rock’s best photograph

‘Blitz was where all the New Romantics hung out. If you didn’t look good, you didn’t get in. Steve Strange is at the front of the shot – with big hair’

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