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  The Telegraph

  Blitz Club days: 'if you didn’t look good, you weren’t coming in - no matter how famous you were'

  Between 1979 and 1980, London nightclub Blitz was where New Romantics, from Boy George to Jean Paul Gaultier and Princess Julia would go to showcase their most extravagant looks. Mick Jagger was famously not allowed in, while David Bowie was greeted in amazement. Milliner Stephen Jones tells Luxury about creating his look, why being dubbed 'fashionable' was the kiss of death and what happened inside. "Britain was very poor in 1979, when I was 22. There were huge mountains of rubbish in Leicester

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  Evening Standard

  Callum Turner: An ex-soldier put me through my paces for The Capture - and I loved it

  The Capture star Callum Turner said he spent six months training with a former soldier to help him get into character.The actor, who played a serviceman framed for a violent crime in the hit BBC drama, said he “loved” the physical aspect of the training and also learned about his role by being with the veteran.

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  HuffPost UK

  Magenta Devine Dead: Network 7 TV Presenter Dies, Aged 61

  The TV host is best-known for presenting youth programmes in the late 80s and 90s.

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  Sky News

  Fade To Grey: Stars At Steve Strange Funeral

  New Romantic stars have carried Steve Strange's coffin at his funeral in South Wales. Boy George, Steve Norman and Martin and Gary Kemp of Spandau Ballet were pallbearers at the service at All Saints Church in Porthcawl. The Visage singer's casket was adorned with colourful images from the band's heyday in the 1980s. The cortege was led by a marching jazz band before Visage's biggest hit Fade To Grey was played from a public address system.

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  New Romantic Pioneer Steve Strange Dies

  Eighties pop star Steve Strange has died of a heart attack in Egypt at the age of 55, his record company has said. Strange also managed the Blitz Club in Soho, a focal point for the New Romantic movement. Bands such as Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet and Boy George's Culture Club all got their start at the Blitz Club. Boy George tweeted: "Heartbroken about the death of my friend Steve Strange.

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