WHAT WE’VE LEARNT

Future Wag club founder Ollie O’Donnell remembers “The Bowie Twins”: two stick-thin scenesters whose catchphrase “Never mind the bollocks, darling!” would be filched by the Sex Pistols.

Visage frontman and Blitz club mastermind Steve Strange turned up to the New York launch of Visage’s useless second album on a camel. “It rained,” recalls bandmate Midge Ure. “Steve’s make-up ran, and the camel shat all over the floor outside the club.”