Blitz Club, 1980s | Andrew Holligan
Photographs taken by Andrew Holligan at Covent Garden’s Blitz Club in 1980. The legendary club night, held at the Great Queen Street venue every Tuesday, was co-hosted by Steve Strange and Rusty Egan.
Photo © Andrew Holligan.
Photo © Andrew Holligan.
Photo © Andrew Holligan.
Photo © Andrew Holligan.
Photo © Andrew Holligan.
Photo © Andrew Holligan.
“I met Steve Strange, Boy George, Marilyn, and others in 1980 while I was working as an assistant for a fashion/advertising photographer in London. He was doing a story on the New Romantics and was taking hard-edged studio portraits of them. He managed to sell the story to the German magazine Stern, but they also wanted some club shots, so I was sent to the Blitz Club, which was okayed by Steve Strange because I wasn’t a New Romantic!” – Andrew Holligan.
Photo © Andrew Holligan.
Photo © Andrew Holligan.
Photo © Andrew Holligan.
Photo © Andrew Holligan.
Photo © Andrew Holligan.
Photo © Andrew Holligan.
Photo © Andrew Holligan.
Photo © Andrew Holligan.
Photo © Andrew Holligan.
Gallery first published 22nd January, 2022. © Andrew Holligan / British Culture Archive. All rights reserved.
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