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Writer Robert Elms says Steve Strange, who has died at 55, "was a working-class kid from the valleys in Wales, who changed London overnight".

Strange ran the legendary Blitz nightclub in the 1980s, and was the lead singer of Visage, best known for Fade To Grey.

‘You have to remember what London was like in the late 1970s," says Mr Elms. "It was shut, it was grey, it was aggressive -- particularly if you were gay, if you were dressed differently, if you were black."

"Steve Strange was many of those things. He was different, he was gay, he was an outsider. But he was also tough as old boots, and he opened this place on a Tuesday night, in a little disused room in Soho, and everybody in that room was fabulous."

This clip is from Up All Night on Thursday 13 February 2015.