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Pam Hogg obituary

Fashion designer whose idiosyncratic mix of glam and DIY couture was worn by Björk, Siouxsie Sioux and Taylor Swift

The Guardian - UK · Nov 27, 2025

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

Evening Standard · Oct 4, 2025

“I was worried that Bowie would nick our ideas... which he did. I felt it was our turn, not his": Gary and Martin Kemp remember Spandau's early days and the Blitz club

Their mum insisted that Martin joined Spandau Ballet

MusicRadar · Sep 23, 2025

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 · Jun 24, 2024

Anarchy in High Wycombe! The real story of the Sex Pistols’ earliest gigs

The punk band are famous for culture-changing gigs in Manchester and London, but what about ones in Keighley and Dunstable? Attendees at their first UK tour remember the protests, raw power – and cider-drinking hippies

The Guardian - UK · Jun 9, 2023

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 · Apr 29, 2023

A moment that changed me: ‘My best friend and I would go clubbing and dream of a glamorous destiny. But then she died’

I was working in a shoe shop after leaving school and Alison and I would mingle with the beautiful people of London nightlife in the 80s. When she was killed in an accident, I had to face some cold, hard truths

The Guardian - UK · Oct 26, 2022

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’

The Guardian - UK · Aug 24, 2022

My London: Martin Kemp

The Spandau Ballet icon on a first date serenade by Sade, the giraffes of Regent’s Park and nights on the tiles with Michael Jackson

Evening Standard · Apr 7, 2022