Steve Strange grew up in wealthy circumstances in Gwent. He lived in a house with a pool but after his parents divorced when he was nine, he went to live in a council house with his mum. He became a skinhead for a while until he decided to dye his hair orange when he was 14. After that he never looked back…

We managed to get Kate Bush’s birthdate wrong for her Testament of Youth in issue 23. God knows why. Kate admitted she always really liked boys. ‘And I always will like boys. I was popular with them. And my level of involvement wasn’t just a sexual one, whereas for a lot of girls it was.’

Kevin Rowland (or Rowlands as we called him on cock-up corner) had an unfortunate birth. On the very day he was born in Wolverhampton, his father’s building business collapsed and he sent the family to Ireland where Kevin’s mum came from, while he tried to build up the business again. He managed to do just that four years later, enabling them to return.