If you’re a Gen Xer of a certain age, you might remember the indescribable glee that filled your body every time your favorite band appeared on MTV. There were quite a few of those for me, but nothing that caused the hair-pulling obsession the way Duran Duran did when I was 12 years old.

At a certain point, one could say it became an “issue.” I had to have every poster, every fedora, every lipstick shade worn by keyboardist Nick Rhodes. I knew every imported B-side record, each one of their favorite colors, food, pastimes, and the names of their dogs. But one day, I read an article in the tween magazine Tiger Beat, and it changed my viewpoint almost instantly. (It didn’t, however, change my infatuation with the band, Simon Le Bon in particular.)

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I haven’t been able to dig up the piece, but it essentially instructed us dreamy, starry-eyed kids that while it’s okay........

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