The three-volume set includes about 200 photographs of bands and youth culture of 1980s Birmingham.
Rare and previously unseen photographs charting the early days of Duran Duran as well as 1980s youth culture in Birmingham have been published in a series of books.Photographs in the three-volume set, Duran Duran en Scène, were taken by Paul Edmond as a teenager in the city.“He was an amazing photographer and quite renowned,” she said.Paul EdmondPaul EdmondThe photographs span from 1979 to 1982, which was “a really important time in Birmingham’s musical history,” Ms de Monde explained.
“Not many photos like that exist of any band, let alone this period, but he just caught things in the moment which is just priceless,” the musician turned author said.Paul EdmondOther photographs include Boy George, who has written the foreword to one of the books, as well as Annie Lennox of the Eurythmics.
It was "quite a broad spectrum of bands that were rising on the scene, but none of them had made it then as such, and that’s what makes it so beautiful,” Mr Tracey added. The images also show “ordinary kids on the streets or in clubs," explained Ms de Monde, as well as fashion designers in the city at the time such as Patti Bell and Jane Kahn.“We’d start off at someone’s house and then go to Holy City Zoo and then to the Rum Runner.Bow Wow Bow are seen playing at the city's Cedar ClubThe books were like a “time capsule of the creative scene that was happening in Birmingham at the time,” Ms de Monde said.
Her brother, who went on to work for magazines such as Sounds and New Sounds, New Styles, died in a car crash in 2015.Paul EdmondThe three-volume set, Duran Duran en Scène, is published by Andrew Sparke Books.
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