MATTHEW LINDSAY
NICK RHODES, DURAN DURAN
They were the new faces of the 80s, but the New Romantics were really a generation that had just travelled through the 70s. They’d started that journey as fans, transfixed by the sight of T.Rex, Roxy Music and David Bowie beamed into their living rooms via Top Of The Pops every week. Bowie, in particular, inspired a uniquely active fandom. Some of them, like George O’Dowd, even travelled to Bowie’s early 70s residence, Beckenham’s Haddon Hall. He was, after all, just “another South London Boy on the same bus route”.