RARE YOUNG Boy George with New Romantic / Blitz Club Members 70's
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- **READ THIS: Video starts at 0:24!!! A RARE Clip I had on my PC. This shows London, England in the 70's when Punk collided with New Romantic Scenes. This clip shows members of the blitz club that was open in London for people who liked to show their new romantic side. Steve Strange is also present in the video along with a 17 year old Boy George.
I believe that these kids really got a taste of true happiness...
Yeah I'm 22 and definitely born into the wrong time, I was born into no freedom and covid lockdowns 😓
They had what it takes to become true artists with the costumes & makeup & hair!
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I have a special place in my heart for Steve Strange, growing up on a farm in the middle of no-where in rural America, when I discovered Steve & his music in the early 80's, I felt like I _'found my tribe'_ . Growing up in a family of 7, he was the brother I always wanted and he influenced me more than my real brothers. I still feel that way today. Love love love him
Great comment buddy !
Steve grew up in the middle of nowhere too
I love that. Great comment. I friggin love him too. I made a memorial for him and brought it to the Temple at Burning Man the year he died
is it too much to wish clubs could be like this again?! sadly yes. style is so homogenised now, everyone looks the same and the music's samey too. everyone's pissing about on their phones all night, it's tragic :(
Sooo true 😿😿😿😿😿
What's worse is that now I'm ready for bed at 2030
It was a glorious time to be young!
yup
0.51 Martin Kemp from Spandau! Great music, great images. What do we have now? Baseball hats? Bring back the Blitz Kids.
Is it bollocks
@@ianmangham4570 It IS, numbnuts. ;-)
@@Chrisamusic1 You should've gone to specsavers 😄
@@ianmangham4570 Seriously pal. It IS Martin Kemp.
@@Chrisamusic1 😄
Made my day, seeing this. Now wearing a smile as big as one of George's hats. Really good seeing Steve; there won't be another one like him.
Just watched some of George's interviews, BBC film 'Worried About the Boy' (UTube) & read his autobiography 'Take it like a Man', George describes how he & others left 'dysfunctional families in the suburbs' to join this 'clubbing family, moving from squat to squat'! What a time to be young! AMAZING FOOTAGE- THANKS for posting!
This is from 1980. Boy George wore that costume at Steve Stranges 21st birthday(held on the Circle line on the tube) and a few weeks later at his own 19th birthday. He's obviously dressed as Brittania with the helmet and union jack shield, although when asked by someone he mistakenly said he was dressed as Boudicca. It's great to see so many familiar faces.
19y.o
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I was a new romantic in the 80s thanks to you Steve so sad you left us so young. love you Steve thanks for the happy years rip.
God, the mid 70's through the mid 80's were such wild times! Punk/ new wave/ no wave and all the other alternative genres that came about, that consumer video and high quality audio equipment was showing up and allowing people to break the mass media's hold on culture, and so much came out of it! I miss all the craziness and actual freedom of those times, sadly too many aren't so inclined to fun and bravery anymore..
What an interesting time in music ...
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Excellent piece of film and great music to go with it! I love to see those Blitz Kids of the early 80's. I'm so envious, I would have loved to have been a part of it, but I was only 13 at the time! It brought a lump to my throat seeing Steve Strange. Can't believe he's gone. He'll be forever in my heart. R.I.P. Steve, my beautiful angel.xxxx
How cool did they all look ... RIP Steve x x x x
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OH BOY, thank you so much for this, it is so incredible to see these ACTUAL clips from the BLITZ ERA, i love it
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I am truly SO happy for both Boy George and Steve Strange with their recent reinventions, happy new year to you both for 2014 :)
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It's great to see this old footage from over the pond! Older clubs like Xclusive and such. Neat to see that people were doing the same thing we were doing and it was all thanks to the music and the energetic promoters putting the nights on!
Was this going on in NY in 1980? Or were the NY club kids more like mid 80s.? I remember being 16 going to Limelight and the Bank, World, and this club that moved called purgatory but that was mid-later 80s and it became mostly more Goth. I wish I was just 5 yrs older and in the UK. What amazing times!!! Coolest creative people. Blitz looked so cool. But I would’ve rather been at the rum runner to hang with the Duran boys 😉 I wonder if there’s a video of the scene there at that time....
RIP Steve Strange 1959 -2015 - the creator of New Romantics
Won't be the same without the big man
a great or greatest time of fashion and music. i was there as it exploded in 79/80 and as a 15 year old was fascinated by it even though i was into zepplin, rush, yes, rainbow and judas priest.... sorry, but not sorry - this new wave romantic was incredible!!!!
If I was 18 in London in 1979 and lived the Blitz I wouldn't have cared if I died of Aids by the end of the 80s! Better than living in the NOW which is just DISGUSTING beyond BELIEF!
Yes I agree, I'm 22 and wish I was much older to have experienced a time like this full of people who believed in individualism and had the amount of freedom to do what you want. I can't even go to a store and not get shamed for not wearing a mask now. Would've loved these times 😓
is it.. idk idk you need to see RIDE - Live On Analog Modular Synths - LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER
I remember this so well xx loved it xx and now am nearly 60 the younger lot today will never ever experience this or the old punk era xxx
I loved it there too.
It was the highlight of my week,the outfits,the music.
Take me back there,I'm so sorry I missed the reunion !
Thank you so much for sharing this. George's appearance on this clip was also shown on Biography which I have kept. Thank you again for sharing - we sure love our Boy George don't we!
Boy George looking so sweet & cute in the white outfit during the 2:00 mark! At 17, he already had the charm!
He was wonderful when he was younger, twinkly, playful, very bright and humorous...was a friend of mine. He changed drastically...
Zoe Wilding how did he change?
Less Is More probably heroin use
@@zoewilding1845 wait! You KNEW him?
Yes...@@lessismore8533
Amazing footage! Thank you for uploading this.
yes we love him...thanks for sharing this with us...x
It’s fun to watch the George who didn’t have any idea of who’d he become.
Boy George is in the long white dress with the tall white headdress. He was Bodecea!!
He used to be very funny quirky and sharp and flirtatious. I'm not commenting about how he became except to say that when Taboo came out, in the venue that was The Blitz Club, now a theatre,. Steve Strange who was in the audience trying to be low key, was made to stand up and have comments made about him and he bitched me up too in front of my young daughter. He came into the audience, we were about 4th row. I was looking at his stage make-up and how he'd done it. He recognised me, said "Have a good look love, you've paid your £40.00. Anyone he knew in the audience got bitched up.. how people can change when they turn from pretty boys in fat spiteful old queens
he was on coke during taboo
Zoe Wilding That's an interesting story. Why don't you make a video about those times?
He wasn't Boudicca as most people think, he's clearly Britannia, the headdress and the shield are a big give away. Just look on English money and you'll see who Britannia is.
You know you’re an English when you can hold your bottle of liquor and a cigarette with a single hand. 😆😆😆
Wow thanks for sharing, the movie "Worried about the boy" didn't capture the details.
The American counterpart were the Club Kids in the late 80s with James st James and the Limelight in NY
Soo cool ,thanks for sharing.
..love the music too
You made my day! Wonderful video!
I adore all those old fashioned/historical outfits and the make-up. It was like a retro fancy dress party. Danny La Rue eat your heart out!
The businessman at 02:35 is like "why am I here?". Poor guy. :-)
Steve Strange so young! ❤️
Enjoyed this, thank you!
Steve Strange just died. Really sad to know another creator of 1980s new wave music had passed away.
There needs to be a support group new wave music lovers who liked music from the late 70s to late 1980s.
Good.Glad the world is rid of a nonce.
I'd totally join it, I'm 22 haha.
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Thanks for posting
It would've been fantastic to be among that crowd back then.
Song is visage by visage
An amazing man and an amazing time that will never return. Love Boy George bless him. 😍
I partied the entire 80s and let me tell you it was fantastic. Mind you I still dance every week!
2:50 - "there is nothing like this in Cleveland, Ohio"....having visited Cleveland, Ohio on several occasions, I can definitely agree with that young lady!
I stumbled on this accidentaly I was hoping there would be video on Blitz/Romantic movement. Kind of like being a fly on the wall.
the song is visage by visage, they all look great, what a time.
God bless this man and for everything he did
Wish Steve was still with us x
Y yo acá tan latinoamericana viviendo en la era del bad bunny. Maldita sea.
Loved the blitz kids
We had parties on the Circle line in the early 60's ! Nothing new here.
Synth pop, 80's new wave
davicharrllss OMD brought me here
I had a lot fun then still do
Loved this video... Long live Blitz!
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Just saw myself hahahahaha...I wasn't really a New Romantic, much more punk sensibility... 1.43/1.44.The blonde running between carriages, without a costume. Think I crop up further on too, in a black velvet cloak but not 100% sure. This is multi-spliced isn't it, not all one evening ?
that is amazing!!!!!!i would have loved being there!!
Today is London is like Pakistan; there will never be another creative artistic British music scene because Britian is no longer britain; and a muslim mayor is proof of that. That is what you get with open borders people. Now its just about muslims and women wearing hijabs in London; it makes me want to cry.
Truth
AA That's what so many have told me about London, years ago like 2006 a paper ran a story about there being no more "London Boys" and it sad cuz no matter what scene or music was the taste of the day, England did it best because they meant it, it (the music/message) was life to them. Pakistan. So sad. To hear never again a musical outbreak from England's youth is never to be again is just beyond winds.
Wow I can’t believe you found this
i wish i was born a little bit earlier..
Can't see me but I was there age 14 and I got in!!!!!!
Did your Parents knew about you going to the New Romantic clubs such as the Blitz and did they ever had a sign saying "You must be Over 18 to enter"
That's awesome Mike that you were able to experience it!
I looked older than my years back in the day. So good to see clips like this. Reminds me of my wild youth.
Yep...nostalgia trip for me too...
After what I read it's hard to keep a straight face when seeing Strangey boy, knowing JJ Burnell did the nasty to him.
¡¡¡ de grande quiero ser como boy George !!!
Always amuses me when the spokespeople of various yoof cultures always go on about expressing individuality. It's anything but. They all think in exactly the same way and revel in excluding others from their narcissistic clique. Not really a criticism, just the way the young are and always will be.
So true, and probably there's no way to escape these mechanisms. But it was fun anyway.
There has not been a "yoof culture" since the 90s , guess any youth since then lack any creativity.
Very vool.thanks for posting.
Wow! You could smoke on the subway then! Good times!
67johnnyjoe Yeah it was fantastic, there were smoking carriages and no smoking carriages. You used to stub them out on the wooden floor of the train. Great great times
pigknickers Until the Kings Cross fire......
***** ....started by a cigarette, if I remember rightly
***** well yes, but that was started on those old wooden escalators that had too much rubbish under it.
great times...
And today for the kids there's absolutely nothing at all to get into sad 😔
lol there's way way more... you just don't know about it. And it's even less on the telly than back in those days.
I’m pleased to say I was the only one during this period who wasn’t different.
visage were a sort super group made up members from ultravox!, magazine,siouxie and the banshees and tubeway army along with rusty egan and steve strange which is why they sound like some of those bands.the 12" version of visage by visage is awesome
Fade to Grey,Brilliant
wish I was a blitz kid
Susie Autar so do I
There's still time.
Janet Snakehole The early 80s I wish I was there,I remember the Mary Rose being raised in Oct `82.
75% of them got AIDS
The Blitz was no big deal Susie, it was a place for people to posture and be seen. I'd never have gone there as a venue of choice, but was wearing Vivienne Westwood's clothes as a job and had to be seen in the right places. Full of morons addicted to the mirror. Used to put in an appearance and then go to another club, like The Marquee, The 100 Club, The Funny Farm in Camden. Actually The Blitz was inhabited by desperately insecure people in the main. It wasn't underground, it was all shop window
The girls hair is 80’s before the 80’s
SOME BAR STAFF CHOSE NOT TO WORK ON A TUESDAY NIGHT AT BLITZ
So great to be part of this. Too far away for me tho
Smoking and drinking in subway what a great time miss it
Wow,i wish i was 18 in 1979,i would have SO been there. Love it love it love it. xoxoxox
Que bonita esa epoca solo se trataba de divertirse y yo recien nacida me perdi lo mejor de la vida
Very evocative, and some brave people there, walking around London dressed like that would most probably of got you a real kicking from the then narrow minded troglodytes, hence travelling in a group would of protected you to some extent. There's a definite need for a credible feature film centred around this period in club culture. Hmm?
If Boy George was indeed 17 yrs old at the time this footage was shot, it then dates this film from 1978? 79?
fantastici momenti!!!!!!
George O'Dowd aka Boy George is the thin young man with makeup and dressed in white with the hat with ostrich feathers 1:57 😉
O'Doud
Rob's Randomness ... O’Dowd 😜
How could you miss him?! He's In the 'Boudicca' inspired headress near the tube doors.
'Hell' was 'Mandy's' on Henrietta Street just down from Covent Garden............its now the Bella Italia................
This is great
I’❤️ great! You are simply super!!
Hey, I'm a researcher working on a doc film about the New Romantics - could you let me know the source for this footage? Are you able to grant permission for its use?
The american in wonder woman costume hahahahhaha
Was hoping a werewolf would be stalking the Underground
Cinzano, colt 45 and smoking on the tube.
0:49 that is spandau ballets very own :) martin kemp
Blitz or a club kid?....Blitz all day long.....
Steve Strange was brilliant.
Beauty !!!! ❤❤❤❤
Years later this poster has no rights to post these videos at UA-cam and, as she admits, it has in the past been taken down by UA-cam for copyright infringement
Rad awesome!
I have finally released Blitzed the Compilation on CD and Vinyl and its on Spotify to stream
I have the smallest disco in Texas, (8 x 14 x 8 ) maybe ...... the World?! I play duranDuran , Kraftwerk ,Roxy , Bowie, Visage, and many other eclectic musics. I wonder what the neighbors think ;)........ in the middle of TEXAS. Let that sink in...
The title of this video describes this as “70’s.” Would you consider this wave of style and music to be 1970’s or 1980’s? I’ve always considered this scene to be early 80’s imho.
....we fade to grey
Wow-he must have been very young here .I'm not gay but he has always been a very beautiful man.Steve strange here too - before he went over the cliff:-(.
New Romantic
Hi there, im making a documentary and would like to use this footage, do you own it or know who does?
so as they said 100 times they are different!
Oh look, it's a horde of future Tory MPs.
NEW FREAK ROMANTICS !!!
I think this was early 80s. There was no Blitz or New Romantic scene in the 70s.
By the time punk got recognised it was already over, 1975/76...nobody had Mohican hair cuts. It was much too flashy and contrived. When mainstream cottoned on to it, it had finished.. it was more about attitude than anything else. Everyone was in a band..
That's interesting how the one at the end said he didn't work but still went out often. We couldn't afford that now, and people are made to feel as if they have to do some mind numbing low paid job to help a few tax dodging corporate political donors get rich and whole TV shows are made to put them down.
So it's fair that tax payers should fund people who are out of work to go out? Fuck off.
J Jones Interesting isn't it how its all turned round and they've got the poor bowing and scraping again. The one at the end either lived at home and got sup ben (enough to pay for a few nights out) or maybe squatted in a place that would now rent for thousands a week. It's one of the reasons it was such an interesting era - money didn't matter too much.