The Blitz only ran for 18 months as the ’70s became the ’80s, and yet the club’s cultural impact has been nothing short of phenomenal: Boy George, Spandau Ballet, a Midge Ure-fronted Ultravox, David Bowie’s Ashes to Ashes video… none of these things would have likely existed in the form that they did without it.Less venerated, though absolutely pivotal to the club’s success, was Rusty Egan, the Visage founder, sometime drummer, and undersung electronic pioneer who DJed at the club he ran with Steve Strange, introducing the ’80s to itself. Egan’s tireless work acquiring recherché vinyl discs from across post-imperialist Europe helped to embed nascent electronica into the London culture, and inspired a milieu of Tuesday night hedonists to shape the charts with these oddly futuristic sounds and textures in the coming decade and beyond.The aforementioned Bowie doesn’t make an appearance this time .
