Elly Jackson aka La Roux. Pop star. “I was too young so I was never there but it has had a huge influence on me.”
Michele Clapton. Academy Award winning costume designer. “God it was such a joy. I remember the first time I went there just thinking, ‘This is it, this is my tribe.”
Stephen Jones. Milliner to the stars. “It was a very British phenomenon, that mixture of fashion and music. I mean have you seen how the French punks dress, or how the Italians dance!!??”
Gary Kemp. Musician, founding member of Spandau Ballet. “We knew the next decade, the ‘80s, was going to be different. It was going to be our decade and it was going to be in colour!”
Midge Ure. Pop star. Ultravox and Live Aid founder. “With the advent of the synthesiser suddenly the only thing holding you back was the limits of your own imagination.”
Princess Julia. DJ “Yes we dressed up but it was all about the music for me. That pulsating four to the floor.”
Marilyn. Pop star. “I just thought they were a bunch of posers. I didn’t like the people, I didn’t like the music, all that electronic crap, that stupid dance…urgh!”
Fiona Dealey. Costume designer. “We, the Saint Martins crowd, we were so pretentious. You’d never see us smiling in photographs. I’d still rather have been at Studio 54.”
Dylan Jones. Broadcaster/writer. “It went from The Blitz to the high street very quickly. Suddenly Princess Diana is wearing a frilly pie crust shirt straight out of The Blitz. Then out of towners started coming and something in it died.”
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