Steve Strange, Visage lead singer, dies aged 55
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Steve Strange, lead singer of 1980s pop band Visage, has died aged 55 following a heart attack, his record label says.
The Welsh New Romantic icon - best known for the hit Fade To Grey - died in hospital in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-31449838)
"Fade to Grey" was a particular favourite of mine at the time. RIP, such a young age.
The Welsh New Romantic icon - best known for the hit Fade To Grey - died in hospital in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-31449838)
"Fade to Grey" was a particular favourite of mine at the time. RIP, such a young age.
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Sad.
Rip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMPC8QJF6sI
Thanks for that, great to hear it again.
he was a great character -and good fun
He was also surprisingly talented on those celeb hairdresser shows
R I P Steve Strange
He was also famously one the 'strange' people in David Bowie's Ashes to Ashes video.......the scene where the bulldozer if accompanied by 3 or 4 clown types......
People who consume an ocean of drugs and booze often peg out early. You only had to listen to him to know some permanent damage had been done imbibing in those heady 80s days.
It's horribly ironic that this would happen just as he seemed to be having a career resurgence. Perhaps the touring and schedule he can't have been used to finally did him in?
Yes. It's not IMO any one drug in particular, but the combination of many drugs. The human body simply can't handle the stress on the system after prolonged use.
Plenty of people that smoke a lot of normal cigarettes and drink heavily do live to a good age, but both together adds to the risk, plus hard drugs and pills etc., adds even more to the risk. It's just too much to cope with.
RIP Steve.
Apparently he had other health problems (although reported as not life threatening) so perhaps a combination of everything was just too much.
YAAAWN!^_^
Go to it then.
R.I.P. Steve.
He really represented the time when the young were fabulous and experimental in dress and music....not the boring, bland, X factor clones and generic rappers that dominate today.
RIP
RIP, Steve.
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Didn't he just! I absolutely adored him and had a huge poster of him on my wall - I was 16 and the movement brought me out of myself and gave me the confidence I was so badly lacking in to experiment with clothes. It was such an exciting time and he was such a vibrant, original and imaginative, gorgeous man. Very, very sad news.
me too I remember how going to jumble sales suddenly became cool...a long queue of pensioners interspersed with a few weirdos dripping in diamante and satin looking for fabulous items that would put them at severe risk of being beat up in small nightclubs in small towns by the small minded.