Cult heroes: how did Stephen Duffy's gold-plated whimsy not make him a star?

He was the original singer in Duran Duran, before briefly becoming a teen heart-throb. But Stephen Duffy’s most memorable music is burnished folk rockThere’s an argument to be made for Stephen “Tin Tin” Duffy being the unluckiest man in pop history who hasn’t actually died. In 1979, aged 19, he quit as singer and bassist with the band he’d founded with a couple of Birmingham Poly mates called Nick Rhodes and John Taylor, just months before the ridiculously named combo – like, Duran