Long before Swifties terrorized their enemies on the internet, the only way to show true devotion to a band was to start a fanzine with your friends and follow the band on the road.
That’s exactly what Debra did in the 1980s as a teenage Duranie.
A Duranie being those devoted to one of those huge ‘80s bands that continues to endure and was recently inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - Duran Duran.
Some healthy teenage rebellion led Debra to the band, and in turn she wrote a popular fanzine - when that meant collecting physical mailing addresses and running a lot of photocopies - and then joined a gang of young women who followed Duran Duran across the U.S. for 19 stops of the tour promoting their Big Thing record.
In this episode of Tell Me a Story, Debra shares the adventure as well as the fallout after two months of living the rock and roll life (and getting college credit for it).
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