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Forty years and two months ago, Duff McKagan first arrived in Los Angeles as a fresh-faced punk rocker with ambitions of taking over the world.

The supporters knew him and were behind him, knowing what a duff hand he had been dealt.

But, as Spencer contends in “Disney High,” it was a challenge to mobilize all the disparate Disney departments to capitalize on the show and Duff’s appeal.

These aforementioned stars whom Disney Channel built its brand around also signpost the network’s popularity peak in the 2000s that Spencer charts in “Disney High,” beginning with Duff and Raven-Symoné, followed by Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato, where “Disney High” abruptly and fittingly ends.

It wasn’t until “Lizzie McGuire,” which starred Hilary Duff in the title role, that network executives realized what they had on their hands.