Leigh Bowery, cultural frontlines and the 80's dole-ocracy
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Feb 6
He struck me as a man who was either entirely himself or never himself. Neither position can have been easy.Basically straight off a National Express coach from Yorkshire I found myself copywriting for a prominent London ad agency in the late 80’s. Barely out of my teens and a stranger in a strange land, I felt a particular sense of culture shock when a commercials director took me to the white-hot trendy night club/den of iniquity called ‘Taboo’. The club’s name was deeply ironic because it ...

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