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I have a weak spot for their early work. After King Crimson's "21st Century Schizoid Man" only Skinny Puppy gave me a similar listening experience. Yes I am convinced Industrial started with that King Crimson song. Call me weird when you think so, King Crimson's first two albums were too strange even for their own time.
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Deep Purple - Knocking at Your Backdoor - The Best of Deep Purple in the 80's

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Deep Purple - Knocking at Your Backdoor - The Best of Deep Purple in the 80's

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Steve Strange, singer with Visage and former manager of the Blitz club in London, has died of a heart attack in Egypt at the age of 55


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Steve Strange, frontman of 1980s synthpop group Visage, has died of a heart attack, his record label has announced. He was 55. The Welsh pop star died in his sleep in a hospital in Egypt. It is understood he was on holiday at the Sharm-el-Sheikh resort.

Strange, one of those at the forefront of the New Romantic movement, rose to fame with Visage, who were best known for their smash hit Fade to Grey, which peaked at No 8 in the UK charts in 1980. It topped the charts in Germany and Switzerland.

Strange also managed the Blitz club in Soho, central London, which became the pulse of the New Romantic movement. The likes of Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet and Boy George’s Culture Club all got their start there before enjoying international success.

Marc Green, label manager at August Day Recordings, said: “We are extremely saddened to announce that Steve Strange died at 11.15 local time on Thursday 12 February in Sharm el-Sheikh International Hospital, Egypt. Steve died in his sleep of heart failure. Steve’s family, band members and friends are all distraught at this sudden news of his untimely death. Steve’s family request privacy at this extremely difficult time.”

Strange had been hospitalised in December in Bridgend, Wales, suffering from bronchial infection and an intestinal blockage.

Strange’s agent, Pete Bassett, added to the tributes. He said: “He will be remembered as a hardworking, very amusing and lovable individual who always was at the forefront of fashion trends. Up until last year he was putting together a book of fashion styles based on the New Romantic movement, and it comes as a great shock.


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“We understood that he had certain health problems, but nothing we knew was life-threatening. His friends and family are totally shocked – we had no idea anything like this was likely to happen.”

Born Steven John Harrington in Newbridge, Monmouthshire in 1959, Strange got involved in music after seeing the Sex Pistols in concert at the Castle Cinema in Caerphilly in 1976. He went on to arrange gigs for punk bands in his home town.
At the age of 15, he went to London to work for Pistols’ manager Malcolm McClaren before setting up Blitz. The club counted among its fans David Bowie, who according to Strange went there “because he had heard how bizarre it was”.
After brief spells in punk and new wave bands, Strange formed Visage in 1978 with fellow Blitz club night host Rusty Egan, and the band released three studio albums before breaking up in 1985. Two further records were released when the band reformed in 2013.
Dubbed the Peacock Prince, Strange said of the New Romantic style he helped create: “It was about showing your creative side, and about showing that you’d taken time and effort in what you had created. It was about classic style and being outrageous, but done with an element of taste.”
Strange was dogged by problems with heroin addiction after first trying the drug while modelling at a Jean Paul Gaultier fashion show in Paris in 1985. He later labelled that night “the worst mistake I ever made in my life”. He also encountered legal problems, such as an arrest and suspended sentence for shopl ifting a Teletubbies doll and cosmetics set in Bridgend. At the end of last year, Strange finished recording a classical interpretation of Fade to Grey.

Speaking on Radio 4’s Today programme, Strange’s Visage bandmate Midge Ure paid tribute: “The Blitz, and the subsequent Blitz Kids who used to frequent the place, grew into a massive movement in the UK associated with fashion, and image and photography. You could stand in the Blitz club and look round you and there’d be future journalists and filmmakers and writers and musicians and a young Boy George taking coats at the coat check … There was something really vibrant about it.

“Steve was a magnet for the good and the bad side of the industry, unfortunately. People with any arty leanings sought Steve out. They loved the idea that there was this movement happening in London – they wanted to be part of it. Steve’s door policy was fantastic at the Blitz because he wouldn’t let anyone in he didn’t like the look of. So he famously turned away Mick Jagger because they thought he was too rock’n’roll. But when David Bowie turned up all these cool kids went into turmoil and meltdown, because the king had appeared. It was really interesting place ...

“It was more than just fashion. Every decade, every genre, has its heart, and the Blitz was the beating heart of that whole new electronic dance music movement of the early 80s. In just the same way that the Cavern was in the 60s for the Beatles and the Mersey sound or the Hacienda club in Manchester was for all the Manchester stuff in the 1990s. It was a springboard for a huge variety of talent coming out of that place.”
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