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Tuesday night we went to the Blitz club in Covent Garden, hosted by Rusty Egan and Steve Strange. There was always queues outside. Steve lorded it on the door, making us wait while he turned away some poor freak from the sticks. I felt sorry for some of them, they'd spent so long putting on their make-up and landshape hats. The success of the Blitz led him to belive he had created the New Romantic scene. There really was no scene. At capacity the Blitz held 300, it wasn't a national phenomenon like punk. Most of the crowd had been around as long, if not longer than Steve Strange and we all resented his self-appointment as king of the weird. Rusty Egan was a drummer with The Rich Kids, formed by Glen Matlock after he left Sex Pistols. I never saw them play but I knew they were crap. Rusty was friendlier than Steve but just as patronizing.
He would always stop and talk and never needed a platform. His clothes were very dapper, jodhpurs, tweed forties jackets, crisp white shirts, silk and slicked-black hair.Rusty tried to be so refined but his slickness was easly rattled. Marilyn and I bitched at him so much he grabbed me by the throat and blew his cover.
Steve Strange and Rusty's clubbing legend began in june 1978 when they took over Billy's at Gossip club. They were the first of a new breed of club entrepreneurs, quick to see the potential for making money and creating a safe place for us freaks to dance the night away. Steve was the doorman, Rusty deejayed, playing Bowie, Roxy, film scores and electro-pop like Kraftwerk
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