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How I played my part in inventing the New Romantics

September 26, 2013 By Beverley Glick 2 Comments

Here is the second extract from my memoir Hit Girl: My Bizarre Double Life in the Pop World of the Eighties. It is September 1980 and, under my pen name Betty Page, I have just been appointed a staff writer at the music paper Sounds after spending a year being the editor's secretary by day and secret music journalist by night. My first assignment is a tough one: to secure the first music press … [Read more...] about How I played my part in inventing the New Romantics

Filed Under: My Personal Stories Tagged With: Betty Page, Blitz Kids, Gary Kemp, Hit Girl, New Romantics, Sounds, Spandau Ballet

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