Mainely Duran Duran

 

Suddenly we’re hungry like the wolf again, as Maine’s connection to the British New Wave band Duran Duran resurges with their 2023 album Danse Macabre.

The band is named after the mad scientist Durand Durand in the 1968 cult sci-fi film Barbarella. At the time, it wasn’t a hot topic, or even a topic, that the unstable villain was based on Wilhelm Reich, who kept a laboratory in Rangeley [see “The Devil & Wilhelm Reich,” February/March 1987]. But…

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