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Spandau Ballet: The New Romantics — a Manifesto for the Eighties

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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