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Duran Duran

I have been reading my old journals from Junior High, can't tell you how painful that is. There are some high points (playing basketball and MTV) and many low points (12th chair in clarinet and trying to learn how to use the curling iron correctly).

One of my happiest places in 1984 was my love for Duran Duran I went on and on and on ...

2/20/84
Just got the new Duran Duran tape. Seven and the Ragged Tiger. I have their others as records I want to get them as tapes. Rio is really good I think I like the new one better. They have been on MTV I wait to see their videos.

3/12/84
Everyone likes John Taylor. Amy likes John Taylor. I like Roger Taylor. They are not related. Andy Taylor is also in the band he is not related either. There must be a lot of people in England named Taylor.

5/8/84
I love DURAN DURAN. I love the band Duran Duran so much. I think Roger Taylor is so cute. I could tell you anything about them. Roger was born on April 26, 1960. He has a dog named "Kelly" and a Porsche. Just a few facts. They are from England and I probably never be able to meet them, but I still like them.

5/13/84
Duran Duran has a new song "The Reflex". It is my favorite song.

6/16/84
Gotta get to bed it is 12:00. Did you know it is morning in England and Duran Duran is just waking up? I would like to live in England.

6/20/84
I can't believe it is only 5 more years until 1989 and I will be out of High School. Roger Taylor will be 29 years old in 1989. Oh my God that is so old. Roger Taylor is also short, he is 5'9". I am almost 5'9". It is tall for a girl not for a guy. Oh well I still like him. I think Tom Cruise is short also.

8/12/84
Been at basketball camp in Laramie and band camp in Keystone. I got a new tape we listened to at basketball camp by Prince. It is good, it is called "Purple Rain" I still like Duran Duran, Amy got me a bunch of cool buttons.

8/15/84
ROGER TAYLOR GOT MARRIED!!! This is a horrible day. I don't believe it he was my favorite. Now I don't like Duran Duran as well. He was too short anyway.

9/1/84
I really like WHAM! now almost better than Duran Duran. George Michael is cute but it is weird how he has two earrings. Oh well...

Comments

bobbione8y said…
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH SAD.

i had the EXACT same diary but about a decade earlier, for the Bay City Rollers. i painstakingly bought only plaid things, and dreamed about being married to Leslie constantly.

by the 80s, i was much more mature. i mildly loved Nick Rhodes from DD, more majorly loved George Michael and even BOY GEORGE and then fell absolutely totally life-changingly in love with Michael Stipe a few years later.

um. i guess the names have changed but the crushes have not. i just posted a video of rob thomas right before i read this :)) he he.
5:07 PM
carey said…
i shared your love affair with duran duran, susan. nothing like a little "hungry like the wolf" to make a geeky seventh grader feel cool :)
12:11 PM
Susan said…
So glad to hear I was not the only one out there with Tiger Beat and BOP posters.

I loved the Bay City Rollers. Those kilts! I can totally remember being in Kathy Kovarik's basement listening to her sister's SATURDAY NIGHT record and getting in trouble when she found us out.
8:11 PM
Karen said…
Oh, the days...and the gay men we loved.

I recently heard a bit of the "Purple Rain" soundtrack, and had to wonder what on earth my parents were thinking when they let me buy (and memorize) that one. Talk about an education.
9:45 PM
K~ said…
I loved Duran Duran too, but, never wrote about them. I LOVED your entries. I think that kind of stuff is just RICH! K~
9:08 AM
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