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Rob Sheffield

Rob Sheffield is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and the author of "Love Is a Mix Tape" and "Talking to Girls About Duran Duran," from which this is excerpted.

Pete Shelley (AP/Marco Ugarte)

Remembering Buzzcocks’ Pete Shelley: The ultimate punk romantic

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“Hey Jude” at 50: Celebrating the Beatles’ most open-hearted masterpiece

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Rush: How I learned to forgive — and even like — the most hated band of all time

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Duran Duran (from left to right): Andy Taylor, John Taylor, Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes, Roger Taylor.

What Duran Duran taught me about girls

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