I have been recently working on an 80’s record cover for a band called Wide Boy Awake made up of ex Adam & the Ants members and my old photo assistant friend Harley Price.
When I was an assistant in 81 Charlotte Street with 2nd assistant Harley, a David Bowie look a like (from Man who fell to earth), the area was not only famous for the explosion of Saatchi & Saatchi but also the New Romantic movement. Boy George, Steve Strange, Marilyn, Hayzi Fantaysee (Jeremy Healy & Kate Garner), the ‘Blitz Kids all lived 5 minutes up the road in the Mews by Warren Street. Film director Steve Wooley worked on the door of the Scala Cinema, 50m away in Tottenham Street.
https://designmuseum.org/exhibitions/blitz-the-club-that-shaped-the-80s
The studio, originally owned by Terence Donovan had many celebrities like Margaret Thatcher, Cindy Crawford, Princess of Wales - Diana, Twiggy, Terence Stamp, Attenborough, Jagger, to Sir John Geilgud, Ralph Richardson, Sir Lawrence Olivier walking through the door and in my time as a photographer, Sir David Beckham, Dame Edna Everage/ Sir Les Paterson, Kevin Keegan, John Conteh, Henry Cooper , James Hunt & Barrie Sheene etc
