Spandau Ballet and The New Romantics
Betty Page, Sounds, 13 September 1980
"INITIALLY 'mod' meant a very small group of young working class boys who, at the height of the trad boom formed a small, totally committed little mutual admiration society totally devoted to clothes..."
– George Melly, from his book Revolt Into Style.
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