Steve Strange in New York City, 1981 © Ebet Roberts

David Bowie with Daniella Parmar and Princess Julia Toni Basil at The Blitz Club in London, 1979 © Robert Rosen

Bowie wears a jumpsuit designed by Willie Brown from Modern Classics boutique. 

The UFO brooches were bought earlier that day from a shop called Detail. (source: Craig Goodfellow)

David Bowie with Daniella Parmar and Princess Julia at The Blitz Club in London, 1979 © Robert Rosen

Kiss at Blitz, 1980 © Ted Polhemus

Unknown and Joan at Billy’s, 1978 ca. © Nicola Tyson

George O'Dowd kissing Babs at Billy’s, 1978 ca. © Nicola Tyson

Marilyn kissing Kate at Billy’s, 1978 ca. © Nicola Tyson

«Peter Robinson [in the middle] was in his transition phase to becoming Marilyn. Over the weeks of Bowie Nights, you see him changing his spiky hairdo into his Marilyn hair. The girl he’s about to kiss in this picture is called Kate. Peter was only 16 when it was taken. Like most of the people at Billy’s, we were the fans who had been too young to participate in any big way in the punk thing. Once it went mainstream we were craving that excitement, because it hadn’t lasted very long, so there was this real need to start a scene to carry on that thrill.»

Nicola Tyson

T. Lewis, ‘The birth of the London club scene’: Bowie Nights at Billy’s Club – in pictures, «The Guardian», 25 January 2013, http://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2013/jan/25/bowie-nights-billys-club-pictures

Steve Strange at Billy’s, 1978 ca. © Nicola Tyson

Steve Strange with Magenta Devine at Billy’s, 1978 ca. © Nicola Tyson

Steve Strange ~ 1982

Very cool French documentary about Steve Strange

Steve Strange in PX, 1978 ca. © Nicola Tyson

«Travel back to the childhood bedroom of most Blitz habitués and you’d find a David Bowie poster on the wall. [...] He was the one person that everyone there would cite as an influence, even more important than punk»

S. Strange, Blitzed! The Autobiography of Steve Strange, London, Orion Books 2002, p. 52.

Making of Ashes To Ashes video with Steve, Judith Frankland, Darla-Jane Gilroy and Elise 1980

Remembering Steve Strange through some of his best outfits

RIP dear Steve <3

George O'Dowd, so young... at Billy's, 1978 ca. © Nicola Tyson