Over the next 20 months their fashion-led Tuesday club-night was gradually acknowledged in the media as home to the New Romantic movement and prompted the "Blitz Kids" epithet in mainstream newspapers, led by the Daily Mirror on 3 March 1980. Subcultural outcomes The Blitz club provided roots for several new pop groups, notably Visage with Steve Strange on vocals and Blitz DJ Rusty Egan on drums, then Spandau Ballet who played live gigs there in 1979 and 1980. Later, Blitz cloakroom attendant George O'Dowd was to become internationally famous in his own right as Boy George fronting Culture Club. Marilyn became a singer, but with limited chart success. Boy George celebrated the Blitz Kids scene in his 2002 musical Taboo, in which he played the part of Leigh Bowery, who hosted the London weekly club-night called Taboo in 1985-87, long after the Blitz closed. In January 2011, Steve Strange and Rusty Egan threw a one-off reunion party on the site of the original Blitz Club, with performances from Roman Kemp's band Paradise Point and electro punk artist Quilla Constance, plus DJ sets from Egan himself. Egan simultaneously launched an official Blitz Club website incorporating a record label, which published three remixes in as many years. In 2017 The National Portrait Gallery acquired portraits of Blitz Kids Stephen Linard, David Holah, John Maybury and Cerith Wyn Evans by photographer David Gwinnutt, which were displayed in the exhibition Before We Were Men In March 2021, Bruce Ashley's documentary Blitzed: The 80's Blitz Kids' Story, was shown on Sky Arts. Boy George, Rusty Egan and Marilyn all appeared in the film discussing their time at the club and about the early 1980s-era, whilst La Roux was interviewed about the cultural effects of the New Romantic movement on younger performers like herself. List of prominent Blitz Kids Rusty Egan (Visage member and DJ/co-founder of the Blitz Club) Steve Strange (Visage member and co-founder of the Blitz Club) Michael Clark (dancer) Martin Degville (Sigue Sigue Sputnik) Robert Elms (writer for The Face and NME, now a radio presenter) Siobhan Fahey (Bananarama) Boy George (Culture Club member and cloakroom assistant at the Blitz Club) Tony Hadley (Spandau Ballet) Jeremy Healy (Haysi Fantayzee) Tony James (Sigue Sigue Sputnik) Stephen Jones (milliner) Princess Julia (DJ) John Keeble (Spandau Ballet) Gary Kemp (Spandau Ballet) Martin Kemp (Spandau Ballet) Perri Lister (Hot Gossip) Marilyn (singer) Little Nell (actor/singer) Steve Norman