MAR KLINDORES
Duran Duran poised on the starting line for their first US tour in New York City, September 1981
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As the dying embers of punk gave birth to a new wave of flamboyantly-dressed club kids who pouted, preened and posed a trail across London’s West End in the late Seventies, 100 miles away, a Birmingham five-piece with killer hooks to match their looks were honing a sound that would not only make them one of the defining acts of that stylish subculture but would also give the New Romantics their name.