diary LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 17: Gary Kemp attends the 'Fly to Baku' Contemporary Art Exhibition at the De Pury Gallery on January 17, 2012 in London, England. The exhibiton was hosted by Leyla Aliyeva and Simon De Pury at the De Pury Gallery, Howick Place. Curated by Herve Mikaeloff it showcases the growing contemporary art scene of Azerbaijan and its capital, Baku.
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21 November 2012
A time warp in Wardour Street last night as the St Moritz Club was mobbed by the 1981 cool crowd. Dressed up to the nines, they were out for the launch of We Can Be Heroes, a photo-essay book by Graham Smith and Chris Sullivan about London’s punk and New Romantic clubland in the late Seventies and early Eighties.
Among the guests was Spandau Ballet’s Gary Kemp. “I’ve bought a copy for each of my four sons,” he told the Londoner. “It explains more about what was happening then than my autobiography.” Kemp, however, did acknowledge that time can warp the memory of those heady days. “There was no internet, no Twitter, nothing to record things on, so the myth we made could be really extraordinary.”
