ORIGINAL BLITZ PICTURE BY SHEILA ROCK T-SHIRT SIGNED BY RUSTY EGAN

Premium T-shirt with the original picture outside the BLITZ club taken by the photographer Sheila Rock. Signed in the blue iconic neon BLITZ by Rusty Egan. 

"This picture was taken right at the start of the 80s. I knew Steve Strange, Rusty Egan and Midge Ure – who were then part of the band Visage. The Blitz sign was striking and I thought it would make a strong background for a photo of the band. Steve is in the front with big hair, looking straight into the camera. His magnificent fashion transformations were a daily occurrence. Street fashion was at its peak – the pavements and nightclubs were like catwalks – and it was the beginning of gender experimentation and a sexual revolution that’s still resonating today. Inside the club, you had a cast of characters from Boy George to Marilyn. Everyone was dressing up: you could be whatever you wanted. Once you discover glitter, it is hard to go back to bland. It was like a dream, a fantasy land.
Inside, you walked through a narrow tunnel to a cavernous space with a dancefloor. Rusty had his DJ equipment on one side and the club would play Kraftwerk, Yellow Magic Orchestra and bands a lot of mainstream radio would never feature. It was the era of music made with technology: drum machines and synthesisers. Punk was working class in its roots, but early 80s music drew people from the art colleges. Dressing up was about creative, artistic expression. There was a certain elitism to it: if you didn’t look good, you weren’t allowed in. For a photographer, it provided a total visual experience. I just had to point my camera and a parade of extraordinary people would pass by." -Sheila Rock