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New wore pink when Rich Kids appeared on Top of the Pops and always had a penchant for women’s clothing. However, an addiction to heroin hampered his subsequent endeavours. Their youngest member, the promising lead guitarist Steve New, who has died of cancer, had a brief stint with John Lydon’s PiL, and recorded with both Billy Idol’s Generation X and Iggy Pop in the late 1970s and early ’80s. Ure also excelled as a solo artist and as the front man of Ultravox in the New Romantic era. They broke up the following year and never fulfilled the potential of a sterling line-up, though the vocalist and second guitarist Midge Ure, formerly of the Scottish teenybop group Slik, and drummer Rusty Egan, went on to great success with Visage. However, neither the atmospheric anti-war song “Marching Men”, nor the sublime “Ghosts of Princes in Towers”, the title track of their album produced by the former David Bowie guitarist Mick Ronson, charted – and when it was eventually released in October 1978, the album itself stalled at No 51.
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Their eponymous debut single made the Top 25 in early 1978 and they played a series of memorable live dates around the UK, seeming well on their way.
RIP with love xxx) CHECK OUT GIG REVIEW HERE : Rich Kids Islington Academyįormed by the bassist and songwriter Glen Matlock after he was edged out of the Sex Pistols in February 1977, the new wave band Rich Kids played a potent brand of power pop reminiscent of the Sixties British groups The Who and the Small Faces, and predated the US skinny-tie contingent of The Knack and The Cars. WE raise a glass, and remember a person well loved by many, and this Obituary does a good job in describing his life. (We hadn’t done a write up yet as we were away when Steve New sadly passed away – Enjoyed seeing Beastellabeast perform Punk earlier this year & The Rich Kids show at Islington Academy, which sold out very quickly, was one of the gigging highlights of the years.