10 New Wave Secrets Revealed in Eighties Oral History 'Mad World' — rollingstone.com

If you miss the days when the world was made of mesh and lace, you'll want to check out Mad World: An Oral History of New Wave Artists and Songs That Defined the 1980s. The hugely entertaining book, by Lori Majewski and Jonathan Bernstein, includes interviews with dozens of musicians, from Simon Le Bon to Howard Jones. Mad World not only reveals the stories behind the songs that were MTV staples, but it lets the artists settle old scores. Ten secrets we learned from the book (in some cases, answering questions that have been lingering for decades) about 10 different artists:

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