{"id":77,"date":"2025-09-19T13:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T10:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/?p=77"},"modified":"2025-09-19T13:05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T10:05:00","slug":"blitz-the-london-nightclub-that-shaped-the-80s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"Blitz: The London Nightclub That Shaped the 80s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/design-living\/16621\/blitz-london-nightclub-1980s-exhibition-design-museum-boy-george-stephen-jones?utm_source=Linkamp;utm_medium=Linkamp;utm_campaign=RSSFeedamp;utm_term=blitz-the-london-nightclub-that-shaped-the-80s\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/786\/azure\/another-prod\/460\/4\/464071.jpeg\" alt=\"Blitz exhibition\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Though it only ran for 18 months, Covent Garden\u2019s Blitz club remains a cultural phenomenon. <\/span><span>The weekly night was launched by musicians Steve Strange and Rusty Egan in 1979, <\/span><span>and has been credited with cementing the careers of a host of famous names, from Boy George and Spandau Ballet to designers Stephen Jones and Michele Clapton.<\/span><span> Following recent 1980s London homages including <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/design-living\/16621\/blitz-london-nightclub-1980s-exhibition-design-museum-boy-george-stephen-jones?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=blitz-the-london-nightclub-that-shaped-the-80s\">read more raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/design-living\/gallery\/14314\/blitz-the-club-that-shaped-the-80s\/0?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=blitz-the-london-nightclub-that-shaped-the-80s\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/138\/0-128-3000-2000\/azure\/another-prod\/460\/4\/464071.jpeg\" alt=\"Blitz exhibition\" \/><\/a>nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/design-living\/gallery\/14314\/blitz-the-club-that-shaped-the-80s\/1?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=blitz-the-london-nightclub-that-shaped-the-80s\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/138\/0-0-1963-1308\/azure\/another-prod\/460\/4\/464072.jpeg\" alt=\"BoyGeorgeBlitzGroup1980 2\" \/><\/a>nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/design-living\/gallery\/14314\/blitz-the-club-that-shaped-the-80s\/2?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=blitz-the-london-nightclub-that-shaped-the-80s\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/138\/0-0-2823-1882\/azure\/another-prod\/460\/4\/464076.jpg\" alt=\"Spandau Ballet\u2019s debut photo shoot\" \/><\/a>nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/design-living\/gallery\/14314\/blitz-the-club-that-shaped-the-80s\/3?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=blitz-the-london-nightclub-that-shaped-the-80s\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/138\/0-0-2190-1460\/azure\/another-prod\/460\/4\/464077.jpg\" alt=\"Stephen Linard at the Blitz, about 1980\" \/><\/a>nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/design-living\/gallery\/14314\/blitz-the-club-that-shaped-the-80s\/4?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=blitz-the-london-nightclub-that-shaped-the-80s\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/138\/0-0-3000-2000\/azure\/another-prod\/460\/4\/464075.jpeg\" alt=\"Marilyn at Club for Heroes, 1982. Photo Robert Ros\" \/><\/a>nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/design-living\/gallery\/14314\/blitz-the-club-that-shaped-the-80s\/5?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=blitz-the-london-nightclub-that-shaped-the-80s\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/138\/83-128-2826-1884\/azure\/another-prod\/460\/4\/464070.jpg\" alt=\"Back cover, i-D\" \/><\/a>nbsp;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/design-living\/gallery\/14314\/blitz-the-club-that-shaped-the-80s\/0?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=blitz-the-london-nightclub-that-shaped-the-80s\">View Gallery (8 images)<\/a>nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though it only ran for 18 months, Covent Garden\u2019s Blitz club remains a cultural phenomenon. The weekly night was launched by musicians Steve Strange and Rusty Egan in 1979, and has been credited with cementing the careers of a host&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}