Stephen Duffy was the first singer in a little band called Duran Duran. He left them in 1979 and began a series of other musical projects before settling into the Lilac Time almost three decades ago with brother Nick. The band’s latest album is No Sad Songs. Stephen Duffy will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week.
Duffy: I didn’t have one until I was 40, and I found I had suicidally high cholesterol. I apparently wouldn’t be typing this without that test. My psychotherapist (Jungian) suggested I had a fear of penetration. Later my doctor discovered I had almost no trace of vitamin D in my system and replenished me via injection. Is it a coincidence that I am now the owner of such a sunny disposition? I wonder what would have happened if Nick Drake had been given vitamin D: Would he have gone on to make terrible disco records with Colin Blunstone? We’ll never know, but get your blood tested for everything, everyone. (I also have a theory that all conservatives are constipated, but this is harder to prove).
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