Robert Elms

The Profile

Robert Elms is a British writer and broadcaster, longtime BBC Radio London presenter, and author connected to London’s Blitz/New Romantic milieu. His books include The Way We Wore and London Made Us.

British writer and broadcaster; long-running presenter on BBC Radio London; associated with the Blitz/New Romantic scene in late-1970s/early-1980s London; author of books on London, style, and culture.

A single review tears into Robert Elms’s Blitz: the Club that Created the 80s for self-aggrandising perspective, repetitive prose, and overblown grandiosity. The reviewer criticizes lazy adjectives, laboured wit, and relentless name-dropping. They argue the scene’s impact is inflated and the book would work better as a tight essay. Verdict: an exhausting 284-page exercise in self-mythologising.