March 16, 200817 yr tbh duran and spandau 'dressed the part' but were only really contemporary pop. If you were to pick three groups who were genuinely New Romantic it would be those two and Visage. New Romantic was a club scene and the two you name came from the clubs (Blitz, Rum Runner). They may have made pop but the were the very epitome of New Romantic! :smoke: <New romantic smiley!
March 17, 200817 yr If you were to pick three groups who were genuinely New Romantic it would be those two and Visage. New Romantic was a club scene and the two you name came from the clubs (Blitz, Rum Runner). They may have made pop but the were the very epitome of New Romantic! :smoke: <New romantic smiley! i think they used the 'new romantic' tag to get recognised...it worked! tbh i dont think 'new romantic' was a musical style, unlike punk, ska etc, it was a fashion and new contemporary pop took the image from the fashion rather then the music creating the fashion. both duran and spandau dropped the fashion and the sound once they became popular. spandau in particular... 'gold', 'true' , could have been written anytime over the last 30 years and were pop.
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