Re DI's post, the comment in the article seemed to read that the Sydney groupies were so desperate to be groupies of popular international acts that when bands of Duran Duran's stature DID bother to visit Australia (and he seems to be refering to Sydney in the context of their 1983 tour) they went to extreme lengths to get their attention - by being as sweet and lovely and gorgeous to the extent that the cosmetic technologies of the period would allow.

hj