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And then there was Martin Degville himself,  later to become well know first as a designer of outrageous one-offs,  then as the singer of Sigue Sigue Sputnik.  He was from Walsall,  twelve miles outside Birmingham,  and still lived there in a big two-storey flat at 79 Goodall Street,  where George and his friends would sleep on their weekend visits.   With his gaunt cheekbones, shaved eyebrows,  high heels,  wildly teased-up hairdos,  and always dressed in his own extravagant ´ creations´ ,  Degville was already a legend in the small Birmingham club scene - and a magnet for skinheads and queer-bashers,  from whom he frequently had to run for his life. MARTIN DEGVILLE MENU

* PICTURES BY PAUL EDMOND