The audience ranged from girls as young as 13, who changed out of their school uniform in the toilets, to the daughter of the English ambassador to Russia, and Soho strippers as well as music fans and journalists.
Below the streets of a then derelict Covent Garden, Don Letts spun the tunes while boys and girls in bin liners fucked, mutilated and gave haircuts to each other in the bogs.
Virtually every act who played at The Roxy walked away with a record deal, but despite such success, the club was a short-lived affair. It remained open for just 100 nights.
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