The DURAN DEVOTEE
‘THEY TAKE ME BACK TO WHEN I HADN’T A CARE IN THE WORLD’
Anita Prosser, 52, a fitness instructor, has been an avid Duran Duran fan for more than 40 years. She lives in Kingston upon Thames with her two teenage children.
I first saw Duran Duran on Top of the Pops in 1981, when I was 10. They sang Planet Earth, and I thought they looked beautiful with their New Romantic floppy hair and pirate shirts. I was smitten from that moment onwards and blew all my pocket money on the single.
After that, every time there was a new release, I made my mum and dad drive me a dozen miles to a record shop where sales counted towards the pop charts. At 13, I went to the hairdresser clutching a picture of bassist John Taylor, my favourite, and said, ‘I want
