Duran Duran: From Brags To Riches
Betty Page, Sounds, 29 May 1982
ONCE UPON a time, five fresh-faced boys based in Brum summoned a cynical hackette to witness the emergence of a certain indefinable sort of big-bam-glam-electro-rock going under a name everyone else had a good belly laugh at.
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