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Would I like to interview Curt Smith of Tears For Fears? Yes, please! My baptism of fire in the world of 1980s magazines.

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Wendy Varley
Oct 09, 2024
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Last week I had the pleasure of meeting up with my former boss from my 1980s magazine days, David Hepworth, at a literary festival, where he was giving a talk about his latest book, Hope I Get Old Before I Die: Why Rock Stars Never Retire.

“How did we end up with rock gods in their eighties?” he asks in the book. “How did a career which was supposed to l…

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