Steve Strange, Visage lead singer, dies aged 55 (msn.com).
“Spandau Ballet guitarist Gary Kemp dedicated the band’s performance in Italy to ‘a maverick to the end’, while his brother and the band’s bassist, Martin Kemp, tweeted: ‘RIP Steve Strange goodbye my dear friend. I will miss you!’”
Rejecting the austerity and anti-fashion of punk with an escapist and aspirational stance, the short lived New Romantics movement, which Strange typified, was an inflection to pop culture and fashion who’s eerie, sterile, and vaguely menacing synthpop incessantly haunts on from an unlocated PoMo speaker seemingly disconcertingly near yet inscrutably out of reach.
Steve Strange, certainly one of the most defining exhibits at by far the best exhibition I’ve visited in recent years. Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990 at the Victoria and Albert museum, Sept. 2011—Jan. 2012. (GoogleTube).
“… Post-modernism culminates in the act of performance, so if you think about music video during this period, you think about choreography, like the dancers that are standing behind us. Really, post-modernism is all about adopting a pose, we say ‘striking a pose’—a little nod of the head to Madonna there—and really its about the way that you act, the way you dress, the way you talk, the way you paint your face, that in a way is you.”
#RIPSteveStrange (Twitter).
Updated 12th March 2015
Funeral service for Steve Strange: Spandau Ballet and Boy George among pallbearers (msn.com).
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