10 Fun Facts About The New Romantics

Which Covent Garden nightclub's Tuesday club-night in 1979–1980 launched the New Romantic movement?

The nights were publicised solely by word of mouth, and the press dubbed the regulars the Blitz Kids.

New Romantic style drew on boutiques such as PX in London and Kahn and Bell in which other English city?

The scene grew up in the nightclubs of both cities, and Duran Duran formed in Birmingham in 1978.

Who was the lead singer of the New Romantic band Visage, known for their hit 'Fade to Grey'?

Strange also worked the door at the scene's defining club-nights, and Visage's final album appeared in 2015, nine months after his fatal heart attack.

Which musical instrument became a defining characteristic of the New Romantics' sound?

The resulting synth-pop, paired with the movement's visuals and MTV airplay, drove much of the Second British Invasion of the US charts.

Boy George rose to fame as the flamboyant lead singer of which New Romantic-associated band?

The band have sold more than 50 million records, and 'Karma Chameleon' was the UK's biggest-selling single of 1983.

Which of these songs is a well-known hit by the New Romantic band Duran Duran?

Russell Mulcahy shot its video in Sri Lanka, and MTV's heavy rotation of it finally broke the band in America, where the single reached No. 3 in March 1983.

The song 'True' is a signature hit for which New Romantic band?

Gary Kemp wrote it about his feelings for Altered Images singer Clare Grogan, and it became the band's first entry on the Billboard Hot 100.

Who is credited with coining the term 'New Romantic'?

Burgess said the label fitted the scene around the Covent Garden club-nights, though most of the groups tried to distance themselves from it.

Men and women on the New Romantic scene wore eyeliner and lipstick and favoured what kind of dressing?

The heavy cosmetics were partly inherited from earlier punk fashions, even as the look rejected punk's austerity.

The New Romantic movement is sometimes seen as a reaction against which earlier subculture?

In style it rejected the anti-fashion stance taking hold in punk, looking back instead to 1970s glam stars such as David Bowie and Roxy Music.