Then, early in the new millennium the pendulum swung once more. John Taylor too left in 1997, reducing the band to a rump of just Le Bon, Rhodes and their American longtime guitarist/co-songwriter Warren Cuccurullo, which produced two more albums and a number of singles but compared to prior releases underperformed on the sales charts. A 1995 album of cover songs, Thank You, produced a minor hit with Lou Reed's "Perfect Day" but was otherwise critically panned. The remaining trio recruited additional members and spent the rest of the 1980s and early 1990s continuing to release music, but to diminishing success.Īn unexpected critical and commercial comeback followed however with 1993's Duran Duran (commonly called The Wedding Album) featuring two top-ten worldwide hits "Ordinary World" and "Come Undone", which returned the band to their former superstar status and their highest chart placings in years. Andy Taylor and Roger Taylor both left before the recording of the band's fourth album, 1986's Notorious. In 1985, the band topped the US charts with the single "A View to a Kill" from the soundtrack of the film of the same name and performed at Live Aid, yet differences within the group ensured it would be the last time the 'classic' five-piece lineup would appear on stage together for what would prove to be 18 years. These "night versions" were generally available only on vinyl, as b-sides to 45 rpm singles or on 12-inch club singles, until the release of the compilation Night Versions: The Essential Duran Duran in 1998.ĭuring their 1981-84 imperial phase, the albums Duran Duran, Rio and Seven And The Ragged Tiger sold millions and produced a string of successful and enduring singles - and accompanying videos - like "Planet Earth", "Girls On Film", "Hungry Like The Wolf", "Save A Prayer", "Rio", UK chart-topper "Is There Something I Should Know?", transatlantic number one "The Reflex", and "The Wild Boys".
Before the days of digital synthesizers and easy audio sampling, they created multilayered arrangements of their singles, sometimes recording entirely different extended performances of the songs in the studio. they were cursed by what we can call the ' Bee Gees curse', which is: 'write amazing songs, sell tons of records, and consequently incur the wrath or disinterest of the rock obsessed critical establishment'."ĭuran Duran were amongst the earliest bands to work on their own remixes. Their weapons were never just their looks, but self-penned songs." As Moby said of the band in his website diary in 2003: ". However, according to the Sunday Herald, "To describe them, as some have, as the first Boy Band misrepresents their appeal. Their quick rise to stardom, polished good looks and embrace of the teen press almost guaranteed disfavour from music critics: during the 1980s, they were considered the quintessential manufactured, throw-away pop group. However, Nick Rhodes said in a 1998 interview with Deluxe magazine that the band felt they were "appallingly ripped off" by the EMI contract.Īlthough they began their career as "a group of art school, experimental, post punk rockers", Duran Duran were generally considered part of the New Romantic scene, with other style-and-dance bands such as Spandau Ballet, Japan (who they cited as a direct influence), and ABC. "A certain patriotism" toward the label of The Beatles led them to sign with EMI that December. In late 1980 when touring as an opening act for Hazel O'Connor, the band attracted critical attention resulting in a bidding war between the record companies EMI and Phonogram Records. In 1980, they recorded two demo tapes and performed in clubs around Birmingham and London. Despite numerous personnel changes over the years, Le Bon, Rhodes, John and Roger Taylor are still active into the 2020s over forty years since the band's formation.
Their core members for their most successful period were singer Simon Le Bon, keyboardist Nick Rhodes, and three unrelated Taylors: bassist John, guitarist Andy and drummer Roger.
#DURAN DURAN MOVIE#
They are named after the character of Professor Durand Durand from the 1968 movie Barbarella. They were one of the most commercially successful of the New Romantic bands and a leading band in the MTV-driven "Second British Invasion" of the United States.
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Edited audio from an ad for a Duran Duran concert.ĭuran Duran are an English pop-rock band, formed in Birmingham in 1978 and famous for a long series of popular singles, albums and vivid music videos in The '80s and beyond, for which they've won two Grammy Awards.
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