(Steve Harrington b.28.5.59 in Newbridge, Monmouth), former frontman of Visage, brought up in Kinmel Bay & was in the same infants class as Steve Rastin & Simon Shaw in Towyn CP – he is remembered standing in the playground yelling along to a bright orange plastic Beatles guitar he was hammering at. He & Rastin hung out together as 7 year-olds (c1967) but it all ended in fisticuffs & tears. Apparently he went on to attend Emrys ap Iwan school in Abergele but got kicked out for dyeing his hair purple, at which point he moved down to London, became an occasional skivvy at Sex/ Seditionaries before reinventing club culture in 1979 & forming Visage & having 8 hits incl the huge Fade To Grey. Now has a South Wales connection & recently has apparently been recovering from assorted addictions & bankruptcy by living with his sister in Fishguard.
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