Steve Strange, the Glossary

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1. 93 relations: Acme Attractions, Adam and the Ants, Aldershot, Ashes to Ashes (British TV series), Ashes to Ashes (David Bowie song), Baker Street, Barry Adamson, BBC, Billy Currie, Bisexuality, Bottin, Boy George, British Army, Celebrity Scissorhands, Channel 4, Channel 4 News, Children in Need, Chrissie Hynde, Covent Garden, Dave Formula, David Bowie, Denbighshire, Edinburgh, EMI, EMI Records, Fade to Grey (Visage song), FIS Ski Flying World Championships 2014, Gargoyle Club, Gary Kemp, Glen Matlock, Guest house, Hampshire, Harrachov, Hearts and Knives, Here and Now Tour, Ibiza, ITV (TV network), ITV Studios, Jayce Lewis, Jean-Jacques Burnel, John McGeoch, Koko (music venue), Liverpool, London, Loose Women, Magazine (band), Malcolm McLaren, Marc Warren, Marilyn (singer), Mark Ryan (guitarist), ... Expand index (43 more) »

2. Notting Hill
3. People educated at Oakdale Comprehensive School
4. Visage (band) members
5. Welsh LGBT singers
6. Welsh bisexual men
7. Welsh new wave musicians
8. Welsh pop singers

Acme Attractions

Acme Attractions was a London clothing store on Kings Road, Chelsea, London, that in the early 1970s provided a place for many punk and reggae musicians and scenesters to hang out.

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Adam and the Ants

Adam and the Ants were an English rock band that formed in London in 1977.

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Aldershot

Aldershot is a town in the Rushmoor district, Hampshire, England.

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Ashes to Ashes (British TV series)

Ashes to Ashes is a British fantasy crime drama and police procedural drama television series, serving as the sequel to Life on Mars.

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Ashes to Ashes (David Bowie song)

"Ashes to Ashes" is a song by the English singer-songwriter David Bowie from his 14th studio album, Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) (1980).

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Baker Street

Baker Street is a street in the Marylebone district of the City of Westminster in London.

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Barry Adamson

Barry Adamson (born 11 June 1958)"". Steve Strange and Barry Adamson are Visage (band) members.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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Billy Currie

William Lee Currie (born 1 April 1950) is a British multi-instrumentalist and songwriter from Huddersfield, England. Steve Strange and Billy Currie are British synth-pop new wave musicians and Visage (band) members.

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Bisexuality

Bisexuality is a romantic or sexual attraction or behavior toward both males and females (gender binary), to more than one gender, or to both people of the same gender and different genders.

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Bottin

Bottin (Guglielmo Bottin, born 1977) is an Italian composer, producer, DJ and music scholar, based in Venice, Italy.

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Boy George

George Alan O'Dowd (born 14 June 1961), known professionally as Boy George, is an English singer, songwriter, DJ, and the lead singer of the pop band Culture Club. Steve Strange and Boy George are British male new wave singers.

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British Army

The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Naval Service and the Royal Air Force.

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Celebrity Scissorhands

Celebrity Scissorhands is a reality television show that is part of the BBC's Children in Need charity campaign, in which celebrities attempt to cut people's hair to raise money for the campaign while trained and watched by professional hairdresser Lee Stafford.

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Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation.

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Channel 4 News

Channel 4 News is the main news programme on British television broadcaster Channel 4.

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Children in Need

BBC Children in Need (also promoted as Plant mewn Angen in Wales) is the BBC's UK charity.

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Chrissie Hynde

Christine Ellen Hynde (born September 7, 1951) is an American-British musician.

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Covent Garden

Covent Garden is a district in London, on the eastern fringes of the West End, between St Martin's Lane and Drury Lane.

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Dave Formula

Dave Formula (born David Tomlinson 11 August 1946, Whalley Range, Manchester, England), is an English keyboardist and film-soundtrack composer from Manchester, who played with the post-punk bands Magazine and Visage during the end of the 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s and in the "world music" band The Angel Brothers. Steve Strange and Dave Formula are Visage (band) members.

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David Bowie

David Robert Jones (8 January 194710 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Steve Strange and David Bowie are Bisexual male musicians, Bisexual singers and British male new wave singers.

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Denbighshire

Denbighshire (Sir Ddinbych) is a county in the north-east of Wales.

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Edinburgh

Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.

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EMI

EMI Group Limited (formerly EMI Group plc until 2007; originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries, also referred to as EMI Records or simply EMI) was a British transnational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London.

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EMI Records

EMI Records (formerly EMI Records Ltd.) is a British multinational record label owned by Universal Music Group.

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Fade to Grey (Visage song)

"Fade to Grey" is a song by British synth-pop band Visage, released in November 1980 as the second single from their debut album, Visage (1980), on Polydor Records.

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FIS Ski Flying World Championships 2014

The FIS Ski Flying World Championships 2014 took place from 14 to 16 March 2014 in Harrachov, Czech Republic for the fourth time.

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Gargoyle Club

The Gargoyle Club was a private club on the upper floors of 69 Dean Street, Soho, London, at the corner with Meard Street.

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Gary Kemp

Gary James Kemp (born 16 October 1959) is an English songwriter, musician and actor, best known as the lead guitarist, backing vocalist, and principal songwriter for the new wave band Spandau Ballet.

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Glen Matlock

Glen Matlock (born 27 August 1956) is an English musician, best known for being the bass guitarist in the original line-up of the punk rock band the Sex Pistols. Steve Strange and Glen Matlock are British male new wave singers.

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Guest house

A guest house (also guesthouse) is a kind of lodging.

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Hampshire

Hampshire (abbreviated to Hants.) is a ceremonial county in South East England.

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Harrachov

Harrachov (Harrachsdorf) is a town in Jablonec nad Nisou District in the Liberec Region of the Czech Republic, close to the border with Poland.

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Hearts and Knives

Hearts and Knives is the fourth studio album by the British synth-pop band Visage.

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Here and Now Tour

The Here and Now Tour is a series of concert tours, which began in 2001, featuring groups and singers famous in the 1980s.

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Ibiza

Ibiza (Eivissa,; see below) is a Spanish island in the Mediterranean Sea off the eastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula.

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ITV (TV network)

ITV, legally known as Channel 3, is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network.

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ITV Studios

ITV Studios Limited is a British multinational television media company owned by British television broadcaster ITV plc.

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Jayce Lewis

Jason Charles Lewis known professionally as Jayce Lewis (born 29 September 1984) is a Welsh musician from Bridgend, South Wales.

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Jean-Jacques Burnel

Jean-Jacques Burnel (born 21 February 1952) is an English musician, producer and songwriter, best known as the bass guitarist and co-lead vocalist with the English rock band the Stranglers.

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John McGeoch

John Alexander McGeoch (25 August 1955 – 4 March 2004) was a Scottish musician and songwriter. Steve Strange and John McGeoch are Visage (band) members.

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Koko (music venue)

Koko (stylised as KOKO, previously called The Music Machine and Camden Palace) is a concert venue and former theatre in Camden Town, London.

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Liverpool

Liverpool is a cathedral, port city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Loose Women

Loose Women (known as Live Talk from 2000 to 2001) is a British talk show that broadcasts on ITV weekdays from 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm.

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Magazine (band)

Magazine were a British rock band formed in 1977 in Manchester in England by singer Howard Devoto and guitarist John McGeoch.

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Malcolm McLaren

Malcolm Robert Andrew McLaren (3 September 1946 – 8 April 2010) was a Yemeni-Born fashion designer and music manager.

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Marc Warren

Marc Warren (born 20 March 1967) is an English actor, known for his British television roles.

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Marilyn (singer)

Peter Antony Robinson (born 3 November 1962), better known as Marilyn, is an English singer known for his androgynous appearance. Steve Strange and Marilyn (singer) are British male new wave singers.

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Mark Ryan (guitarist)

Mark Ryan (2 March 1959 – 31 January 2011) was an English guitarist who played in different punk bands during the late 1970s.

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Martin Kemp

Martin John Kemp (born 10 October 1961) is an English musician and actor, best known as the bassist in the new wave band Spandau Ballet and for his role as Steve Owen in EastEnders.

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Mick Jagger

Sir Michael Philip Jagger (born 26 July 1943) is an English singer.

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Midge Ure

James "Midge" Ure (born 10 October 1953) is a Scottish musician, singer-songwriter and record producer. Steve Strange and Midge Ure are British male new wave singers, British synth-pop new wave musicians and Visage (band) members.

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Myocardial infarction

A myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when blood flow decreases or stops in one of the coronary arteries of the heart, causing infarction (tissue death) to the heart muscle.

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New Romantic

New Romantic was an underground subculture movement that originated in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s.

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New wave music

New wave is a music genre that encompasses pop-oriented styles from the 1970s through the 1980s.

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Newbridge, Caerphilly

Newbridge (Trecelyn) is a town and community in the county borough of Caerphilly, south Wales.

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Polydor Records

Polydor Limited, also known as Polydor Records, is a German-British record label that operates as part of Universal Music Group.

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Porthcawl

Porthcawl is a town and community in the Bridgend County Borough of Wales.

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Quilla Constance

Jennifer Allen, known professionally as Quilla Constance, is a British contemporary interdisciplinary artist and lecturer, born in Birmingham, 1980.

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Radar Records

Radar Records was a UK-based record label formed in late 1977 by Martin Davis (managing director) who had previously worked at United Artists Records, and Andrew Lauder, who had previously been head of A&R at the UK divisions of Liberty Records and United Artists.

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Rhyl

Rhyl (Y Rhyl) is a seaside town and community in Denbighshire in Wales.

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Rich Kids

Rich Kids were a short-lived new wave band from London, founded in 1977 by Glen Matlock following his departure from the Sex Pistols.

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Robin Simon

Robin Simon (born 12 July 1956) is a British guitarist who was a member of Ultravox, Magazine and Visage. Steve Strange and Robin Simon are Visage (band) members.

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Roman Kemp

Roman Kemp (born 28 January 1993) is an American-born British radio host and television personality.

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Rusty Egan

Rusty Egan (born 19 September 1957 in London to Irish parents) is a British pop musician and DJ, although he has only ever held an Irish passport. Steve Strange and Rusty Egan are Visage (band) members.

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Sanremo Music Festival

The Sanremo Music Festival, officially the Italian Song Festival, is the most popular Italian song contest and awards ceremony, held annually in the city of Sanremo, Liguria, organized and broadcast by Italian public broadcaster RAI.

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Sex Pistols

The Sex Pistols are an English punk rock band formed in London in 1975.

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Sharm El Sheikh

Sharm El Sheikh (شرمالشيخ,, literally "bay of the Sheikh"), alternatively rendered Sharm el-Sheikh, Sharm el Sheikh, or Sharm El-Sheikh, is an Egyptian city on the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula, in South Sinai Governorate, on the coastal strip along the Red Sea.

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Soho

Soho is an area of the City of Westminster in the West End of London.

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Soo Catwoman

Susan Lucas, better known as Soo Catwoman, was a member of London's early punk subculture.

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Spandau Ballet

Spandau Ballet were an English pop band formed in Islington, London, in 1979.

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Strange Cruise

Strange Cruise was a short-lived 1980s British pop rock group, fronted by former Visage singer Steve Strange and Wendy Cruise (aka Wendy Wu, the former singer of the Photos).

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Sylvester Stallone

Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone (born July 6, 1946) is an American actor and filmmaker.

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Synth-pop

Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop) is a music genre that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument.

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Synthwave

Synthwave (also called outrun, retrowave, or futuresynth) is an electronic music microgenre that is based predominantly on the music associated with action, science-fiction, and horror film soundtracks of the 1980s.

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Taboo (musical)

Taboo is a stage musical with a book by Mark Davies Markham (extensively rewritten for the Broadway production by Charles Busch), lyrics by Boy George, and music by George, John Themis, Richie Stevens, and Kevan Frost.

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Tar (song)

"Tar" is the debut single by the British synth-pop group Visage, released in 1979.

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Teletubbies

Teletubbies is a British children's television series created by Anne Wood and Andrew Davenport for the BBC.

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The Clash

The Clash were an English rock band that formed in London in 1976 and were key players in the original wave of British punk rock.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Next Day

The Next Day is the 25th studio album by the English musician David Bowie.

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The Photons

The Photons was a punk/new wave band active between 1977 and 1978.

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The Photos

The Photos were an English new wave band fronted by Wendy Wu, who had a top 5 album on the UK Albums Chart in 1980.

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The Pretenders

The Pretenders are a British-American rock band formed in March 1978.

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The Psychedelic Furs

The Psychedelic Furs are an English rock band founded in London in February 1977.

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The Spitfire Boys

The Spitfire Boys were the first Liverpool punk band to release a single ("British Refugee" c/w "Mein Kampf").

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The Stranglers

The Stranglers are an English rock band.

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Topper Headon

Nicholas Bowen "Topper" Headon (born 30 May 1955) is an English drummer and multi-instrumentalist, best known as the drummer of punk rock band The Clash.

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Trance music

Trance is a genre of electronic dance music that emerged from EBM in Frankfurt, Germany, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and quickly spread throughout Europe.

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Ultravox

Ultravox (earlier styled as Ultravox!) were a British new wave band, formed in London in April 1974 as Tiger Lily.

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Visage (band)

Visage were a British synth-pop band formed in London in 1978.

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Worried About the Boy

Worried About the Boy is a 2010 British biographical drama television film directed by Julian Jarrold and written by Tony Basgallop, based on the life of English singer Boy George.

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See also

Notting Hill

• 1958 Notting Hill race riots
• Addison Avenue
• All Saints Road
• Arundel Gardens
• Bette Bourne
• Blenheim Crescent
• Clarendon Road
• Claudia Jones
• Colville Gardens
• Death of Jimi Hendrix
• Elgin Crescent
• Golborne Road
• Kensington Gravel Pits
• Ladbroke Estate
• Ladbroke Grove
• Ladbroke Square
• Lansdowne Crescent, London
• Ledbury Road
• Mangrove (film)
• Mangrove Nine
• Norland Square
• North Kensington
• Notting Dale
• Notting Hill
• Notting Hill Carnival
• Notting Hill Gate
• Notting Hill set
• Pharmacy (restaurants)
• Philip Sayer
• Portland Road, Notting Hill
• Portobello Road
• Pottery Lane
• Powis Square, London
• St Ann's Villas
• Steve Strange
• Tallulah (DJ)
• The Churchill Arms
• The Napoleon of Notting Hill
• Westbourne Grove
• Wolf & Badger

People educated at Oakdale Comprehensive School

• Joe Calzaghe
• Matthew Watkins
• Nicky Wire
• Patrick Jones (poet)
• Richey Edwards
• Sean Moore (musician)
• Steve Strange

Visage (band) members

• Barry Adamson
• Billy Currie
• Dave Formula
• Gary Barnacle
• John McGeoch
• Midge Ure
• Robin Simon
• Rusty Egan
• Steve Strange

Welsh LGBT singers

• Art School Girlfriend
• Bright Light Bright Light
• Callum Scott Howells
• Ian "H" Watkins
• Ian Shaw (singer)
• Ivor Novello
• Joe Talbot (singer)
• Luke Evans
• Mark Evans (actor)
• Martin Rossiter
• Noel Sullivan
• Steve Strange
• Tayce

Welsh bisexual men

• Martin Rossiter
• Ron Davies (Welsh politician)
• Steve Strange

Welsh new wave musicians

• Alison Statton
• Dave Edmunds
• Green Gartside
• Michael Aston
• Mike Peters (musician)
• Rick Smith (musician)
• Steve Strange

Welsh pop singers

• Andy Scott-Lee
• Art School Girlfriend
• Betsy (singer)
• Bonnie Tyler
• Charlotte Church
• Chico Slimani
• David Wrench (music producer)
• Donna Lewis
• Duffy (singer)
• Elio (Welsh-Canadian singer)
• Gwenno Saunders
• Hana Lili
• Hannah Grace
• James Fox (singer)
• Jodie Marie
• Judith Owen
• Jynine James
• Lisa Scott-Lee
• Marina Diamandis
• Maureen Evans
• Michael Jones (Welsh-French musician)
• Nicky Stevens
• Noel Sullivan
• Paul Barrett
• Paul Freeman (musician)
• Rob Lear
• Rosie Ribbons
• Shellyann Evans
• Shirley Bassey
• Steve Strange
• Tom Jones (singer)
• Tony Etoria
• Violet Skies

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Strange

Also known as Stephen Harrington, Stephen John Harrington, Steven Harrington, Steven John Harrington, Strange, Steve.

, Martin Kemp, Mick Jagger, Midge Ure, Myocardial infarction, New Romantic, New wave music, Newbridge, Caerphilly, Polydor Records, Porthcawl, Quilla Constance, Radar Records, Rhyl, Rich Kids, Robin Simon, Roman Kemp, Rusty Egan, Sanremo Music Festival, Sex Pistols, Sharm El Sheikh, Soho, Soo Catwoman, Spandau Ballet, Strange Cruise, Sylvester Stallone, Synth-pop, Synthwave, Taboo (musical), Tar (song), Teletubbies, The Clash, The Guardian, The Next Day, The Photons, The Photos, The Pretenders, The Psychedelic Furs, The Spitfire Boys, The Stranglers, Topper Headon, Trance music, Ultravox, Visage (band), Worried About the Boy.