![]() “Hey D.C., come on out, it’s exciting out there, it’s the best place to be, Duran Duran on tour, can you miss it? The answer is, ‘No!’ I’m gonna be there - and so are you.Taking a page out of David Bowie's glam rock book from previous decades and the original Romantic movement of the early 19th century, New Romantics put on theatrical, garish costumes with lots of ruffles and wrote songs about, well, romance mostly. You can hear all of these songs and more at Capital One Arena in D.C. “Everybody has their own interpretation and that is a wonderful thing.” “I did have something in mind when I wrote it, but that’s become superseded so much more poignantly by how it’s affected other people in their lives, how it’s made people feel that they’re not alone in their troubles sometimes and there is somebody out there with their voice,” Le Bon said. ‘No, no, notorious’ has just become part of the parlance, hasn’t it? We’ve become a part of the wallpaper of people’s lives!”Īfter their fifth album “Big Thing” (1988) and sixth album “Liberty” (1990), the band delivered the platinum album “Duran Duran (The Wedding Album)” (1993), with hits like “Come Undone” and “Ordinary World,” which is my personal favorite Duran Duran song. “It really doesn’t matter to me, as long as they listen to the song. “I don’t mind who they think it is,” Le Bon said. for the posthumous album “Born Again” (1999). Their fourth studio album, “Notorious,” (1986) featured an opening title track that was later famously sampled by Notorious B.I.G. It was great fun to do and we did that silly video with Godley & Creme on the Eiffel Tower. It just gave us a little je ne sais quoi - that’s French, by the way. “It was such a great experience for us and it was such a great opportunity. In 1985, the band recorded the title track of Roger Moore’s final James Bond film “A View to a Kill,” becoming the only Bond song to reach No. I was flying to Canada the next day to see my girlfriend, I took that cassette with me and I thought, ‘This is going to be something special.'” We did it in one night in central London and we came out and I just knew. “I think it was kind of like suddenly we had come to a point of doubt, self doubt, and it expressed that,” Le Bon said. 1 in the UK, becoming only the third song in music history to do so. The same year as their third album “Seven and the Ragged Tiger” (1983), Duran Duran also released the stand-alone single “Is There Something I Should Know?” It went straight to No. “It’s quite a sinister lyric, but it does have that ‘doo-doo-doo-doo’ and the ‘ha-ha-ha’ at the beginning … It has an incredible rhythm track. “It’s the wolf inside all of us,” Le Bon said. Their second album “Rio” (1982) featured several hit singles with “Say a Prayer,” “Rio” and their instant classic “Hungry Like the Wolf,” arguably their most recognizable tune. What a coincidence! You might even call it serendipitous.” We made our first video because we were told that they wanted something to show on the Australian chart show called ‘Countdown.’ … Around the same time, MTV started. “Lucky dogs we were! We had no idea that MTV was going to start. “We had a meteoric rise to success,” Le Bon said. Duran Duran exemplified the new-wave sound of the Second British Invasion. ![]() Their debut album “Duran Duran” (1981) arrived the same year as the founding of MTV. “I had heard through somebody at university where I was studying drama in theater arts that there was a band looking for a singer and I turned up and I was the missing link. ![]() “They were looking for a singer for ages,” Le Bon said. Very, very proud of it.”įormed in Birmingham, England, in 1978, Duran Duran originally featured singer/bassist Stephen Duffy, keyboardist Nick Rhodes and guitarist/bassist John Taylor before adding drummer Roger Taylor, guitarist Andy Taylor and lead vocalist Simon Le Bon. It’s a seal of approval and we feel it very much. “It’s just bumped us up into a slightly more stratospheric level of celebrity. “It is the first tour since our induction into the illustrious Rock & Roll Hall of Fame,” lead singer Simon Le Bon told WTOP. Thursday, tickets go on sale for the band at Capital One Arena on Sept. ![]() WTOP's Jason Fraley chats with Duran Duran (Part 1)ĭuran Duran was just inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Class of 2022.Īt 10 a.m.
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