I had an affinity toward Thompson Twins not just because of my love of British new wave in the early 80′s but also because I was a huge fan of Hergé’s The Adventures of Tintin. My childhood best friend had spent a year in England in the late 70′s while her father, a professor at Lawrence University, did a year’s sabbatical. She came back with a stack of Tintin books (and her last name happens to be Thompson) and we both gobbled up the cute comic boy’s travels to Nepal, South America and points beyond. The Thompson Twins are, of course, named for the two bumbling detectives in the comic series, Thomson and Thompson; they were not actually twins but looked identical, except for the shape of their mustaches.

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