Steve Strange (born Steven John Harrington, 28 May 1959, Newbridge, South Wales) is a Welsh pop singer, best known as the lead singer and frontman of the 1980s pop group Visage. Since the late 1970s, he has also been a prominent nightclub host and promoter.
Harrington was born in Wales but moved with his family to Aldershot, where his father was serving in the army as a paratrooper. The family moved back to Wales and lived in Rhyl, where his pare...
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Steve Strange (born Steven John Harrington, 28 May 1959, Newbridge, South Wales) is a Welsh pop singer, best known as the lead singer and frontman of the 1980s pop group Visage. Since the late 1970s, he has also been a prominent nightclub host and promoter.
Harrington was born in Wales but moved with his family to Aldershot, where his father was serving in the army as a paratrooper. The family moved back to Wales and lived in Rhyl, where his parents bought a large guest house and opened sea front cafes. They then divorced, and he moved with his mother to Newbridge in South Wales, where he attended Newbridge Grammar School. It merged with a secondary school to form Newbridge Comprehensive School a year after he arrived there, and he subsequently lost interest in all subjects but arts.
After seeing a Sex Pistols concert at the Stowaway Club in Newport in 1976, Harrington befriended the bass player Glen Matlock. He then arranged gigs for punk bands in his home town and befriended Jean...
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