May 14, 2018
When Lori Majewski was 16-years-old, she camped out in front of Manhattan hotels just to get an autograph from her idols, Duran Duran. Now she's on frontman Simon Le Bon's speed dial. As a host on SiriusXm's Volume and First Wave channels and co-author of the book Mad World: An Oral History of New Wave Music and Artists That Defined the 1980s, Lori's parlayed her childhood obsession with New Wave music into a successful career. Lori has also held top spots at US Weekly, Entertainment Weekly, YM, and Teen People, the latter of which she was editor-in-chief, and she's written for such publications asWomen's Health, Rolling Stone, Billboard, and Good Housekeeping. On this episode of "Write About Now with Jonathan Small," Lori talks about her journey from running a fanzine to a major magazine, and how she pivoted so that she could focus full-time on her lifetime passion for music. Plus, we totally go behind the big hair and Member's Only jackets to geek out about the music of the 80s.