“Duke, I think we should talk," Byron said as he sat up from his high-back chair and walked around his desk. “Do you remember your first album – the one you made before I came in and saved you from becoming just another comic pop idol?" “Save it, Byron, I'm not in the mood," Duke said as he lay back on Byron's couch. “No, hear me out on this. I think you'll see where the light's coming from." Byron went to the shelves behind his desk and pulled a CD copy of Duke's first album, 'Pop Can't Stand This'. He displayed it for Duke as though he hadn't seen it a thousand times. “You come outta nowhere," Byron stated, “when you were seventeen – and turn the pop world on its head when you make PCST. And it was good – don't get me wrong – teenage girls everywhere still think hot underage thoughts

