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One Hump or Two: Steve Strange Walks a Mile For a Camel

Toby Goldstein, Creem, October 1981

STEVE STRANGE — fashion plate, leader of alternative dance band Visage and all-around creative British person — debarked from his rented camel in front of Chase Park, yet another new club in the bowels of Manhattan. A million flash-bulbs popped at the sight of this somewhat unique boogaloo down lower Broadway. Little did anyone guess that Strange was really yearning to arrive at his party on an elephant, only he couldn't get a pachyderm permit in New York City before 3 a.m. The breaks.

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