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Back to 1984 with Robert Dean Lurie

19 August 2024

9:50 PM

19 August 2024

9:50 PM

Robert Dean Lurie, who had written very good books on worthy rock music subjects (REM, David Bowie and the Church), sure picked the right year — 2020 — to slip into a time machine.

Instead of finding Morlocks and Eloi, as H.G. Wells’s time traveler did, this married father of two in Tempe, Arizona, encountered Walter Mondale and Night Ranger — and he lived to tell his entertainingly perceptive tale.

Lurie explains, “In 2019, I had a premonition that 2020 was going to suck.

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