PAUL RIGBY
Steve Strange was a man of supreme confidence, a man who enjoyed the mechanics of confrontation, loved the glamour and fun of the new romantic movement, was full of ideas in terms of make-up, fashion, music, entertainment and more but a man who admitted that he couldn’t play an instrument and wasn’t much of a singer, either. Yet he was a pioneer of the new romantic movement, played his part in the creation of synthpop via the hit single Fade To Grey, and managed to draw serious talent into his creative orbit.