Q 01/05

The Blitz wine bar, birthplace of the New Romantic scene, was in which part of London?

A) Notting Hill

B) Camden Town

C) Covent Garden

D) Kensington

Answer · why

C) Covent Garden

Covent Garden: the Tuesday crowd at this shabby wine bar dressed so outrageously that the national newspapers named them the Blitz Kids.

Q 02/05

Steve Strange and Rusty Egan ran their 1978 Bowie and Roxy Music nights at which Soho club?

A) Heaven

B) Le Beat Route

C) The Wag Club

D) Billy's

Answer · why

D) Billy's

Billy's was a Soho dive that sat empty on Tuesdays, so Egan offered to fill it: the owner kept the bar takings and the two hosts kept the entry money.

Q 03/05

What was Steve Strange's own job at the Blitz on its Tuesday club nights?

A) Resident DJ

B) Barman

C) Doorman

D) Lighting technician

Answer · why

C) Doorman

Doorman: Strange judged every outfit himself and turned away anyone who had not made an effort; a wetsuit and black-and-white make-up, he said, would ...

Q 04/05

Which rock star was famously refused entry to the Blitz at the height of the New Romantic scene?

A) Rod Stewart

B) Elton John

C) Freddie Mercury

D) Mick Jagger

Answer · why

D) Mick Jagger

Mick Jagger arrived on a night when, co-host Rusty Egan says, the manager had ruled the club full; the snub still won the Blitz a huge splash of publi...

Q 05/05

Steve Strange and other Blitz Kids appeared in the video for which 1980 David Bowie UK number one?

A) Ashes to Ashes

B) Fashion

C) Let's Dance

D) Scary Monsters

Answer · why

A) Ashes to Ashes

Ashes to Ashes: Bowie came to the Blitz in person and picked four regulars, who walked a Sussex beach in black robes behind his Pierrot.