Sound and Vision: music and fashion photographed by Francesco Mellina, Liverpool, 1978 - 82. An exhibition at the National Conservation Centre, 1 May to 31 August 2009.

New Romantics in Cagney's club, off London Road, 1981

men and women in new romantic clothes and make-up

© Francesco Mellina

Jon, Edmo, Debbie and Peter.

"I grouped these four friends together because, out of all the people in the club that night, they were the most striking-looking. I'd seen them in there before and they always made a major effort."
Francesco Mellina

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