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unusual facts about New Romantic



Lustans Lakejer

They were initially influenced by 1970's artrock and postpunk acts like David Bowie, Joy Division, Magazine and Ultravox but adopted a more sophisticated synthpop and new romantic style on their most successful albums Uppdrag i Gèneve and En plats i solen.

Newbridge, Caerphilly

Notable people to have grown up in Newbridge include world-champion boxer Joe Calzaghe CBE; Kim Simmonds of Savoy Brown; Steve Strange, frontman of New Romantic band Visage; and Sir Terry Matthews OBE, high-tech entrepreneur and owner of the Celtic Manor Resort.

Quiet Life

Quiet Life is often erroneously listed as one of the first albums of the New Romantic movement, though Japan always flatly denied they were New Romantics.


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Eugie Foster

Foster's short stories have been published in a number of magazines and books, including Fantasy Magazine, Realms of Fantasy, Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, Interzone, Best New Romantic Fantasy 2, and Apex Magazine.

Kristen Anderson-Lopez

Anderson-Lopez is currently working on the new romantic stage musical Up Here with her husband and Alex Timbers.

Once Upon a Time in China IV

The film is set in 1900, during the late Qing Dynasty, when Wong Fei-hung and his companions (his new romantic interest 14th Aunt, his father Wong Kei-ying, and his students Leung Foon and Clubfoot) face new enemies.