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The Blitz Club was founded by Steve Strange and Rusty Egan. Steve was invited to London by Billy Idol . His first job was designing artwork for Malcolm McLaren and The Sex Pistols . Rusty was the drummer in punk /new wavers The Rich Kids . They met on the Kings Road in 1978. After The Rich Kids disbanded they approached Billy's Club and told them "We'll fill up your club on Tuesday nights!" , they said yes. The club became the setting for a mixture of art students and fashion designers and music fans. The Blitz Club was already established as an existing bar. Steve and Rusty knew about it and liked it and in 1979 they moved their Tuesday nights there. The mixture of fashion, music and glamour provided a brighter alternative to the bleak streets and grey prospects in 1980s Britain. People often accuse The Blitz of being elitist...they were right. The "Blitz Kids" was the name given to the main faces at the club, the original core of what became the New Romantics: Boy George , Marilyn, Perri Lister, Steve Dagger, Iain R Webb, Stephen Jones, Princess Julia, Philip Sallon, Carl Teper, Martin Degville and Robert Elms. Richard James Burgess (who coined the phrase New Romantic in an interview) was also a Blitz regular, he produced a young band called Spandau Ballet and they did their first gigs at Blitz .
