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Duran Duran

April 17, 2023

This article is about the band. For other uses, see Duran Duran (disambiguation).

Duran Duran (/djʊˌræn djʊˈræn/) are an English new wave band formed in Birmingham in 1978 by singer and bassist Stephen Duffy, keyboardist Nick Rhodes, and guitarist/bassist John Taylor. With the addition of drummer Roger Taylor the following year, the band went through numerous personnel changes before May 1980, when they settled on their most famous line-up by adding guitarist Andy Taylor and lead vocalist Simon Le Bon.[nb 1]

Duran Duran
Duran Duran at SXSW in Austin, Texas, 2011
From left: John Taylor (bass), Simon Le Bon (lead vocals), Dominic Brown (guitar), Roger Taylor (drums), Nick Rhodes (keyboards)
Background information
OriginBirmingham, England
Genres
Years active1978–present
Labels
Spinoffs
Members
Past members
Websiteduranduran.com

When Duran Duran emerged they were generally considered part of the New Romantic scene.[4] Innovators of the music video, Duran Duran were catapulted into the mainstream with the introduction of the 24-hour music channel MTV.[5] The group was a leading band in the MTV-driven Second British Invasion of the US in the 1980s.[6] Photographer Denis O'Regan, who captured the band during their 1984 tour, commented "Duran Duran in America was like Beatlemania."[7] The band's first major hit was "Girls on Film" (1981), from their self-titled debut album, the popularity of which was enhanced by a controversial music video. A heavily edited form played in rotation on MTV. The band's breakthrough second album was Rio (1982), which peaked at number six in the US, number two in the United Kingdom, and number one in Australia and Canada. The songs "Hungry Like the Wolf" and "Rio" featured cinematic music videos directed by Australian film maker Russel Mulcahy and became two of their biggest hits. "Hungry Like the Wolf" won the inaugural Grammy Award for Best Music Video in 1984. Their follow-up third album, Seven and the Ragged Tiger, became their only UK number one album and featured the US and UK number one single "The Reflex". In 1985, the band topped the US charts with the single "A View to a Kill" from the soundtrack of the James Bond film of the same name.

Andy and Roger left the band before the recording of their fourth album, Notorious (1986), which yielded the top ten title track. The band spent the rest of the 1980s and early 1990s continuing to release albums and singles, to only moderate success. Their comeback album, 1993's Duran Duran (commonly called The Wedding Album), featured two top-ten worldwide hits "Ordinary World" and "Come Undone". After John Taylor left in 1997, the band released a number of albums and singles which underperformed on the sales charts. A full reunion of the line-up of Le Bon, Rhodes, and all three Taylors in 2001 led to a number of highly successful concert tours and the 2004 album Astronaut, which reached number 3 in the UK and top 40 in numerous other countries. The album's lead single "(Reach Up for The) Sunrise" was an international dance hit, and reached number five in the UK. Andy left again in 2006, and the band have released four additional albums, with the most recent being Future Past in 2021.

According to Billboard, Duran Duran have sold over 100 million records.[8] They achieved 30 top 40 singles in the UK Singles Chart (14 of them top 10) and 21 top 40 singles in the US Billboard Hot 100. The band have won numerous awards throughout their career: two Brit Awards including the 2004 award for Outstanding Contribution to Music, two Grammy Awards, an MTV Video Music Award for Lifetime Achievement, and a Video Visionary Award from the MTV Europe Music Awards. They were also awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The band was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as part of the class of 2022.[9][10]

History

1978–1980: Formation and early years

John Taylor and Nick Rhodes formed Duran Duran in 1978 in Birmingham, England, with Taylor's art school friend Stephen Duffy. Naming their band after "Dr. Durand Durand", Milo O'Shea's character from the science fiction film Barbarella (1968), the three of them (Taylor on guitar and vocals, Rhodes on synthesizer and tapes, Duffy on vocals and bass) played their first gig on 5 April 1979 at the Birmingham Polytechnic. They were then joined by Simon Colley on clarinet and bass. John (then Nigel) Taylor was the guitarist at this point. After a few gigs, including a performance at Barbarella's in Birmingham opening for the band Fashion (with Roger Taylor in the audience) Duffy and Colley left the band in June 1979.[11]

Taylor and Rhodes then recruited lead vocalist Andy Wickett (formerly frontman of TV Eye) and decided that they needed a live drummer. Roger Taylor who had previously been in a few local bands (most recently The Scent Organs who also played at Barbarella's) came on board, while John Taylor switched to bass guitar. In September 1979 this incarnation of the band recorded a four-track demo including an early version of "Girls on Film" co-written by Andy Wickett. Soon afterwards Alan Curtis was recruited as lead guitarist. After a few gigs with this line-up Wickett left the band in late 1979.[12]

Wickett was replaced by Roger Taylor's friend and former singer of The Scent Organs Jeff Thomas. In early 1980 they became the resident band at the city's Rum Runner nightclub. They were doing jobs at the club, and began rehearsing and regularly playing at the venue. Curtis was however unhappy with the Rum Runner club scene and left the band to form Dif Juz with his brother. Soon afterwards Jeff Thomas was ousted from the band after disagreements and repeated arguments and the remaining three members started to look for a new lead vocalist and guitarist.[13]

In April 1980, guitarist Andy Taylor came from Newcastle upon Tyne to audition after responding to an advertisement in Melody Maker. Taylor already had a lot of experience from playing with cover bands for years and although he came from a totally different rock music background his versatile playing style was seen as a perfect complement to the band.[13] In May 1980, London vocalist and drama student Simon Le Bon was recommended to the band by an ex-girlfriend who worked at the Rum Runner.[14] The band were immediately impressed by Le Bon and soon completed their first composition with the new line-up, "Sound of Thunder" featuring lyrics by Le Bon.[15] Duran Duran's first performance with the lineup of Le Bon, Rhodes and the three Taylors was on 16 July 1980 at the Rum Runner.[16]

The owners of the club, brothers Paul and Michael Berrow, became the band's management, paying them to work as doormen, disc jockeys (DJs) and barmen when they were not rehearsing, and also formed the Tritec Music company.[15]

Duran Duran spent the next months writing, developing and demoing their songs and performed in clubs around Birmingham and London. In September 1980 they had written all of what would become their debut album.[17] 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.[18] "A certain patriotism" toward the label of the Beatles led them to sign with EMI in December. A week later, the first article about Duran Duran in a national magazine appeared in Sounds. The members of Duran Duran had noticed that Betty Page (pen name for Beverley Glick) was writing about a new movement called New Romantic that would fit the band perfectly and invited her to meet them at the Rum Runner.[15]

Shortly after signing the recording contract with EMI Duran Duran went to London to record their debut album with producer Colin Thurston and initial plans for an independent release of the songs "Planet Earth" and "Is There Anyone Out There?" on the Tritec Music label was scrapped.[15]

1981–1982: Debut album and Rio

See also: Duran Duran (1981 album) and Rio (Duran Duran album)

The band's debut album, Duran Duran, was released on the EMI label in June 1981. The first single, "Planet Earth", had reached the United Kingdom's top 20 at no. 12 in February. A follow-up, "Careless Memories", released in April, stalled at no. 37. However, it was their third single, "Girls on Film" released in July 1981, that attracted the most attention. The song went to no. 5 in the UK. The video, featuring topless women mud wrestling, pillow fighting and stylised depictions of other sexual fetishes, was made with directing duo Godley & Creme in August.[19] The video was filmed just two weeks after MTV was launched in the United States.[20] The band expected the "Girls on Film" video to be played in the newer nightclubs that had video screens or on pay TV channels like the Playboy Channel. Kevin Godley explained the thinking behind it:

We were very explicitly told by Duran Duran's management to make a very sensational and erotic piece that would be for clubs, where it would get shown uncensored just to make people take notice and talk about it.[19]

The video was heavily edited for MTV (Music Television). The album peaked in the UK top twenty at number 3. Later in 1981 the band embarked on their first United States club tour followed by more dates in Germany and the UK. This second tour of Britain coincided with a wave of riots sparked by unemployment and racial tension, including those of Moss Side and Toxteth. The band played Birmingham the day after the Handsworth riots. The band also began writing and demoing songs for a new album. In November 1981 they released a new single, the disco-influenced "My Own Way", that reached no. 14 in the UK, followed in early 1982 by the recording of their second album at AIR Studios in London.[21]

In May 1982 Duran Duran released their second album, Rio, which entered the UK albums chart at no. 4 and peaked at no. 2 the following week.[22] The band scored three UK top 10 hits on the singles chart from the album with "Hungry Like the Wolf" at no. 5 in June, "Save a Prayer" at no. 2 in September, and the title song "Rio" at no. 9 in December,[22] while the earlier top 20 hit "My Own Way" was included in a re-recorded version on the album,

With the album Duran Duran also began to achieve worldwide recognition. A headlining tour of Australia, Japan, and the US was followed by a stint supporting Blondie during that band's final American tour. Diana, Princess of Wales declared Duran Duran her favourite band, and the band were dubbed "the Fab Five" by the British press, comparing them to the Beatles whose nickname was the Fab Four.[23][24]

At first, the Rio album did not do well in the United States. EMI in the UK had promoted Duran Duran as a New Romantic band, but the New Romantic movement was barely known in the US, and EMI's American subsidiary Capitol Records was at a loss about how to sell them. After Carnival (an EP of Rio's dance remixes) became popular with DJs in the fall, the band arranged to have most of the album remixed by David Kershenbaum. In June 1982, Duran Duran appeared for the first time on American television, performing "Hungry Like the Wolf" and "Rio" on Dancin' on Air, the forerunner to the national hit show Dance Party USA.

Now promoted as a dance album, Rio was re-released in the US in November, and began to climb the American charts six months after its European success. MTV placed "Hungry Like the Wolf" and several other Duran Duran videos into heavy rotation, pushing the single and album into the US top twenty in early 1983. The ballad "Save a Prayer" also did well.[25] "The band was a natural for music television," noted Rolling Stone magazine. "They may be the first rock group to ride in on a video wave."[5] The album ultimately peaked at number 6 in the US and remained on the charts there for 129 weeks. In 2003 Rio was listed at number 65 in the NME 100 Greatest Albums of All Time list.[26]

Duran Duran was among the earliest bands to work on their own remixes. Before the days of digital synthesizer and easy audio sampling, they created multi-layered arrangements of their singles, sometimes recording entirely different extended performances of the songs in the studio. 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.[27][28]

1983–1985: The "Fab Five", Side projects and Live Aid

See also: Seven and the Ragged Tiger, The Power Station (band), and Arcadia (band)

The band began 1983 by playing the MTV New Year's Eve Rock 'n' Roll Ball with "Hungry Like the Wolf" still climbing the charts in the US, and the American reissue of the "Rio" single to follow in March. To satisfy America's appetite for their music,[14] the band re-released their eponymous first album in the US in the middle of the year with the addition of the new single "Is There Something I Should Know?". Upon its release, this song entered the chart at number 1 in the UK (a rarity then and their first chart-topper in their home country) and reached number 4 on the American charts. During the promotion of this album, Rhodes and Le Bon were MTV guest VJs for a show, during which artist and admirer Andy Warhol dropped by to greet them. "Our first gigs in the United States were crazy and culty", Rhodes said later, "But when we came back after 'Hungry' was a hit, it was mayhem. It was Beatlemania. We were doing a signing of the 'Girls on Film' video at a store in Times Square. We couldn't get out of the store. The cops sealed off the streets."[29][30] Also in 1983, keyboardist Nick Rhodes produced the UK number 1 and US number 5 hit "Too Shy" for English band Kajagoogoo and Andy Taylor became the first member of Duran Duran to get married.

The band spent the next year as tax exiles, writing songs at a château in France where The Tube with Jools Holland filmed a documentary with the band in May 1983 before they flew to Montserrat and then Sydney to record and mix their third album. During the summer, they returned to the UK to perform two concerts, the first on 20 July in front of the Prince and Princess of Wales at the Dominion Theatre, and the second, a charity concert at Aston Villa's home ground. The band were under pressure to follow up the success of Rio (1982), and the recording process took over six months as different band members went through bouts of perfectionism and insecurity.[31] A newly decadent lifestyle and substance abuse issues for some members added complications. In the documentary film Extraordinary World, filmed a decade later, Rhodes described the effect on their sound as "barely controlled hysteria, scratching beneath the surface".[32]

The new album, Seven and the Ragged Tiger (1983), included the late 1983 hit "Union of the Snake" (with the soprano saxophone solo by Andy Hamilton). With "Hungry Like the Wolf", "Rio", "Save a Prayer" and "Is There Something I Should Know?", Duran Duran now had five US Top Twenty hits from three different albums in a single year. The band made music headlines by deciding to release the "Union of the Snake" video to MTV a full week before the single was released to radio. They followed up with "New Moon on Monday", which reached Number 9 in the UK. Their next single "The Reflex", taken from Seven and the Ragged Tiger and given a significant remix overhaul by Nile Rodgers of Chic fame, became their first number one hit in the United States. "The Reflex" was also their second and final UK number one and was successful in numerous other countries around the world.

 
Duran Duran in 1983

The band embarked on a global tour that continued throughout the first four months of 1984 including their first major stadium dates in America. A film crew led by director Russell Mulcahy followed the band closely, leading to the documentary film Sing Blue Silver and the accompanying concert film Arena. The live album Arena was also recorded during the tour and was released with the new single "The Wild Boys", which went to number 2 on both sides of the Atlantic. In February 1984, the band appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine and won two Grammy Awards in the brand-new Long Form and Short Form music video categories. Meanwhile, "Save a Prayer" gained momentum in North America, and a special US remix of the song became a single in January 1985. It peaked at No. 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 in March. A live version of the song was used for the single's B-side, taken from the concert video footage for Arena / As the Lights Go Down.

During this period, all of the band members became heartthrobs for many of their young teenage fans. After the tour, Roger Taylor was married in Naples, Italy, and Nick Rhodes wed in London, wearing a pink velvet tuxedo and top hat.[33] At the end of 1984, the group featured on the Band Aid benefit single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" along with other popular British and Irish musical acts. Le Bon sang fourth on the song, after Paul Young, Boy George and George Michael sing their lines.[34]

Even with Duran Duran on hold, band members were soon anxious to record new music, leading to a supposedly temporary split into two side projects. John Taylor and Andy Taylor wanted to break away from the Duran Duran sound and pursue hard rock material; they collaborated with lead vocalist Robert Palmer and Chic's drummer Tony Thompson to form the rock/funk supergroup the Power Station, which released two Top 10 singles. Simon Le Bon and Nick Rhodes wanted to further explore Duran Duran's atmospheric aspect and formed Arcadia, who released one album (So Red the Rose) from which the single "Election Day" was released. Contributors to that album included guitarist Masami Tsuchiya, bassist Mark Egan, percussionist David Van Tieghem, drummer Steve Jordan, Sting, Herbie Hancock, and David Gilmour of Pink Floyd. Roger Taylor was a drummer for Arcadia as well as contributing percussion to the Power Station album. Duran Duran were never the same after this break. According to Rhodes, the two side projects "were commercial suicide... But we've always been good at that."[29] The band was still off balance when they regrouped to contribute "A View to a Kill" to the 1985 James Bond movie of the same name. This single was the first Bond theme to go to number 1 on the US charts, and was at the time the joint highest-placed Bond theme on the UK chart where it reached number 2. It was the last single the band recorded as the original five-piece for close to twenty years.

As a follow-up to the Christmas 1984 Band Aid single, Duran Duran performed in front of 90,000 people (and an estimated 1.5 billion TV viewers) at the Live Aid charity concert at John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 13 July 1985 while their Bond song held the top spot on the American charts. It was not intended to be a farewell performance—the band planned only to take a break after four years of non-stop touring and public appearances—but the original five did not play live together again until July 2003. During their Live Aid set, Le Bon inadvertently hit an off-key falsetto note in the chorus of "A View to a Kill", an error that was trumpeted by numerous media outlets as "The Bum Note Heard Round the World"[35][36] (in contrast to Freddie Mercury's "Note Heard Round the World" at the Wembley Stadium Live Aid show).[35][37] Le Bon later described the moment as the most embarrassing of his career.[36][38]

1986–1989: Le Bon, Rhodes and John Taylor trio

See also: Notorious (Duran Duran album) and Big Thing (Duran Duran album)
 
Duran Duran as a trio, in 1986

After releasing three studio albums and one live album in five years, each accompanied by heavy media promotion and lengthy concert tours, the band lost two of its core members to fatigue and tension in 1986. After Live Aid and Arcadia, drummer Roger Taylor retired to the English countryside, suffering from exhaustion.[39] This was originally announced as a one-year sabbatical, but it soon became clear that he would not be returning to the band. An official press release was issued in April 1986 confirming his departure. In a 2004 interview with LiveDaily, Roger Taylor confirmed his reasons for leaving: "I was burned out. I think I was just exhausted. It was a very intense five years. We didn't stop. It was constant touring, constant writing, recording. We broke internationally, as well—instantly, pretty well. It's a nonstop schedule, really. I had lost myself somewhere."[40]

Guitarist Andy Taylor led the remaining members to believe he would return to work on a new Duran Duran album, even as he was signing a solo recording contract in Los Angeles with MCA Records, eventually releasing a solo album in 1986 called Thunder. The band resorted to legal measures to get him into the studio but after numerous delays they let him go at last. He played on only a few songs on the next album, including "A Matter of Feeling", whilst the disagreements were being settled.[41]

Without a guitarist or a drummer, the three remaining members, Le Bon, Rhodes, and John Taylor had producer (and former Chic guitarist) Nile Rodgers play a few tracks on guitar, and hired Steve Ferrone to play drums while they searched for replacements. Finally in September 1986, Warren Cuccurullo (formerly of Missing Persons and Frank Zappa's band) was hired as a session guitarist.[42] With Le Bon, Rhodes, and Taylor, he recorded the rest of the Notorious album, which was released in October 1986. The black-and-white documentary film Three to Get Ready chronicled the recording of the album, legal tensions, and preparations for the tour.

Although the song "Notorious" went to number 2 in the US, number 7 in the UK, the album was a relative failure globally with the album peaking in the UK at No. 16 and spending one week in the top 50 album chart and consequently the band found they had lost much of the momentum and hysteria they had left behind in 1985. In the three years between the release of Seven and the Ragged Tiger and Notorious, many of their teenage fans had grown up and the music was funkier, more mature, and less "pop", given the added experience of their work on Arcadia and Power Station and with other musicians. "Skin Trade" and "Meet El Presidente", the two subsequent singles, made the charts but fared poorly compared to the band's earlier successes. Finally in late 1987, Sterling Campbell was hired as a session drummer.

Subsequently, Duran Duran struggled to escape the teen idol image and gain respect among critics with more complex music. The new serious image was not accepted at first and their popularity began to wane. Rolling Stone said, "In their search for musical maturity, the surviving Durans have lost a good deal of their identity."[43] In contrast the New York Times said, "Duran Duran's newfound disillusionment may mark a step toward maturity...they managed to catch a trend on the upswing, perhaps "Notorious" suggests that for late 1980s grit and pessimism is coming into style."[44] Another factor was the band's dismissal of early managers, the Berrow brothers. There was no announcement of the reasons for the decision, but disagreements over money, and the brothers' involvement in Le Bon's yachting adventures (they were co-owners of Drum) were thought to have played a part.[45] Whatever the reason, Duran Duran switched managers frequently and undertook periods of self-management in the later stages of their career. In addition, EMI fired its president and went through a major corporate restructuring that summer and seemed to have lost interest in promoting the band.[46] According to Nick Rhodes the band needed to break up in order to come back together stronger.[42]

The next album Big Thing (1988) yielded the singles "I Don't Want Your Love" (number 4 in the US), and "All She Wants Is" (the last top ten hit in the UK until 1993). The record was experimental, mixing influences from house music and raves with Duran's atmospheric synth-pop and the creative guitar work of Cuccurullo (now a full band member), as well as more mature lyrics.

1989–1991: Five again, Decade and Liberty

See also: Decade (Duran Duran album) and Liberty (Duran Duran album)

By the end of 1989 and at the start of the 1990s, the popularity of synth-pop was fading and losing fans to other momentum-gaining music genres at the time, such as hip hop, techno and alternative rock. After touring for the album finished, the band regained a five-man membership as guitarist Warren Cuccurullo and tour drummer Sterling Campbell were made full members of Duran Duran.[47]

The compilation album Decade was released late in 1989, along with the megamix single "Burning the Ground", which consisted of woven snippets of the band's hits from the previous ten years, created and produced with John Jones, who began working with the band after the release of the band’s fifth album Big Thing (1988). The single came and went with little fanfare, but the album became another major seller for the band. However, the 1990 release Liberty (a retreat from the experimentation of Big Thing) failed to capitalise on any regained momentum. The album entered the UK album chart in the top ten, but faded away quickly. The singles "Violence of Summer (Love's Taking Over)" and "Serious" were only mildly successful. For the first time, Duran Duran did not tour in support of an album, performing on only a handful of club dates and TV shows.[48] Sterling Campbell left the band early in 1991, going on to work with Soul Asylum and David Bowie. The quartet of Le Bon, Rhodes, Taylor, and Cuccurullo would remain intact for six more years. In December 1991, John Taylor (then 31) married 19-year-old model and actress Amanda de Cadenet, and she gave birth to his daughter in March 1992.[49]

1992–1996: Quartet line-up and a brief comeback

See also: Duran Duran (1993 album) and Thank You (Duran Duran album)

In 1993, the band released a second self-titled album: this Duran Duran album is known as The Wedding Album (for Nick Egan's cover art featuring the wedding photos of the band members' parents) to distinguish it from the 1981 release, and was produced and recorded with John Jones. The release of this first "comeback" album was delayed, with then manager at Left Bank, Tommy Manzi, later telling HitQuarters that this was due to industry resistance to the revival of the band, who he said would rather focus on "the next hip band".[50] Listener demand for leaked single "Ordinary World" forced it onto radio playlists months earlier than planned; it reached number 3 on the US chart and number 6 in the UK and won a prestigious Ivor Novello Award for song writing.[51][52]

"Come Undone", primarily written by Cuccurullo, with lyrics by Le Bon, made number 7 in the US and number 13 in the UK. Both the band and the record label seemed to be caught by surprise by the album's critical and commercial success (No. 4 in the UK, No. 7 in the US). Bassist John Taylor had been considering leaving the band but changed his mind. The band's largest tour ever, which included stops in the Middle East, the then recently de-embargoed South Africa, and South America, was halted after seven months when Le Bon suffered from strained vocal cords. After six weeks' recuperation, the band performed intermittently for another five months, including appearances in Israel, Thailand, and Indonesia.

In 1995, the band released the cover album Thank You. Songs from Thank You included covers of Lou Reed's "Perfect Day" and Melle Mel's "White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)" (with backing vocals from the original artists). The album also marked the temporary return of former drummer Roger Taylor, who joined the band in studio to play drums on "Watching the Detectives" and "Perfect Day" (as well as a cover of "Jeepster" by T. Rex that did not appear on the album). In a video interview provided with the album's electronic press kit, Reed said he considered Duran Duran's version the best cover ever done of one of his songs, and they received praise from Robert Plant and Jimmy Page for their cover of Led Zeppelin's "Thank You".[31]

1997–2000: John Taylor's departure and second trio

See also: Medazzaland and Pop Trash

After the promo tour for Thank You was completed, John Taylor co-founded the B5 Records label, recorded a solo album, founded and toured with the supergroup Neurotic Outsiders, and reunited the Power Station, though the project proceeded without him when he had to withdraw to deal with his divorce from De Cadenet. Finally, after struggling for months to record the next album, Medazzaland, in January 1997, Taylor announced at the DuranCon fan convention that he was leaving the band "for good".[53] His departure reduced the band to two long time members (Le Bon and Rhodes) and Cuccurullo, who decided to continue recording under the name Duran Duran.

Freed from some internal writing conflicts, the band returned to the studio to rewrite and re-record many of the songs on Medazzaland. (Taylor's work remains on only four tracks.) This album marked a return to the layered experimentation of Big Thing (1988), with intricate guitar textures and processed vocals. The track "Out of My Mind" was used as the theme song for the movie The Saint (1997), but the only true single to be released in the United States was the quirky "Electric Barbarella", which is one of the first singles ever to be sold online.[54] The music video for this single, featuring a sexy robot purchased and played with by band members, had to be censored before airing on MTV, but there was little of the controversy that had surrounded "Girls on Film". "Barbarella" peaked at No. 52 in the US in October 1997.[55] Although Medazzaland was released in the US in October 1997, the album was never released in the UK. "Barbarella" was later released in the UK as a single from the 1998 Greatest compilation album and peaked at No. 23 on the UK chart in January 1999. The group played a set at the Princess Diana Tribute Concert on 27 June 1998 by special request of her family.[56]

Duran Duran parted ways with Capitol/EMI in 1999, although the label has since used Duran Duran's back catalogue to release several compilations of remixes and rare vinyl-only B-sides. The band then signed what was intended to be a three-album contract with Disney Music Group's Hollywood Records, but it lasted only through the poorly received 2000 album Pop Trash. This slow-paced and heavy album seemed out-of-keeping with earlier band material.[57] Rhodes' intricate production and Cuccurullo's songwriting and experimentation with guitar sounds and time signatures were not enough to hook the public, and the album did not perform well. The dreamy single "Someone Else Not Me" lasted barely two weeks on the radio, although its video was noted as the first to be produced entirely with Flash animation. While supporting Medazzaland and Pop Trash, Duran Duran toured with bassist Wes Wehmiller and drummer Joe Travers.

2001–2005: Reunion

See also: Astronaut (Duran Duran album)
 
Duran Duran performing live at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, Canada, 2005

In 2000, Le Bon approached John Taylor with a proposal to reform Duran Duran's classic line-up. They agreed to part company with Cuccurullo after completing the Pop Trash tour. Cuccurullo then announced on his website that he was leaving Duran Duran to resume work with his 1980s band Missing Persons. This announcement was confirmed the next day by Duran Duran's website, followed a day later by the news that John, Roger, and Andy Taylor had rejoined. To fulfill contractual obligations, Cuccurullo played three Duran Duran concerts in Japan in June 2001, ending his tenure in the band.

Throughout 2001, 2002 and 2003, the band worked on writing new material, initially renting a house in Saint-Tropez where audio engineer Mark Tinley built a recording studio for their first serious writing session. They then returned to London to do some self-financed work with various producers (including old friend Nile Rodgers) and search for a new record deal. It proved difficult to find a record label willing to gamble on the band's comeback, so Duran Duran went on tour to prove the drawing power of the reunited band. The response of the fans and the media exceeded expectations.[58] The band played a handful of 25th-anniversary dates across 2003, starting with two arena dates in Tokyo filled to capacity. Tickets sold out for each show within minutes, and celebrities turned out en masse for reunion dates. Amongst these were a number of shows at smaller venues that the band had played on both sides of the pond when they first got together in the early 1980s. In August, the band were booked as presenters at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards, only to be surprised with a Lifetime Achievement Award. They also received a Lifetime Achievement award from Q magazine in October, and the equivalent Outstanding Contribution award at the BRIT Awards in February 2004.[59]

 
Duran Duran in New York City, 2005

The pace picked up with a sold-out tour of America, Australia and New Zealand. The band played a full concert at a private tailgate party at Super Bowl XXXVIII, their performance of "The Wild Boys" broadcast to millions during the pre-game show. A remix of the new track "(Reach Up for the) Sunrise" was released on many TV shows in February while magazines hailed (the modern "Fab Five") Duran Duran as one of the greatest bands of all time.[60] Duran Duran then celebrated their homecoming to the UK with fourteen stadium dates in April 2004, including five sold-out nights at Wembley Arena. The British press, traditionally hostile to the band, accorded the shows some very warm reviews.[61] Duran Duran brought along band Goldfrapp and the Scissor Sisters as alternating opening acts for this tour.[58] The last two shows were filmed, resulting in the concert DVD Duran Duran: Live from London which was released in November.

Finally, with more than thirty-five songs completed, the band signed a two-album contract with Epic Records in June, and completed the new album, now titled Astronaut. The album was released in October 2004 and entered the UK charts at number 3 and the US charts at number 17. The first single was "(Reach Up for the) Sunrise", which reached number 1 on the Billboard US Dance chart in November and peaked at number 5 on the UK Singles Chart, Duran Duran's highest chart position since "A View to a Kill" in 1985. A second single, "What Happens Tomorrow", debuted at No. 11 on the UK chart in February. A 5.1 mix of Astronaut was created by Jeremy Wheatley for the dual-disc release of Astronaut. The CD side contains the album as-is and the DVD side contains the 5.1 mix of the album in DVD Audio format along with some DVD footage and videos.

After a world tour in early 2005, Duran Duran were presented with the PRS Outstanding Contribution to British Music at the 2005 Ivor Novello Awards. Later that summer, the band headlined the massive Live 8 concert, Rome on 2 July 2005 in the Circus Maximus.

2006–2008: Red Carpet Massacre and Andy Taylor's second departure

See also: Red Carpet Massacre
 
Duran Duran in Bogotá, Colombia, 2008

In early 2006, Duran Duran covered John Lennon's song "Instant Karma!" for the Make Some Noise campaign sponsored by Amnesty International. Their version later appeared on Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur as an iTunes exclusive bonus track. They also performed at two high-profile events – the Nobel Prize Awards and the 2006 Winter Olympics. After a couple of weeks of songwriting in Northern California, the band began working with producer Michael Patterson in London, and continued intermittently for the next several months. At one point, they reported having had fifteen tracks nearly complete for an album tentatively titled Reportage, but no further news emerged from the band for months afterward. In September, the band held meetings in New York City with Justin Timberlake and producer Timbaland with an eye to a potential collaboration and were soon reported to have completed three songs with the producer, including a song with Justin Timberlake.[62]

On 25 October 2006, Duran Duran parted company with Andy Taylor once again. In an official announcement on their website, the band stated that an "unworkable gulf" had developed between them and Taylor and that "we can no longer effectively function together". It was noted by Andy Taylor in his book Wild Boy that tensions had arisen between the group's management and himself, and he was also diagnosed with clinical depression connected with the death of his father. Dom Brown, who had previously toured with the band, again took over guitar duties and has been performing with them since.[63] After Taylor's departure, the band scrapped the Reportage album. They wrote and recorded a new album titled Red Carpet Massacre (2007), which included the Timbaland tracks. Dom Brown is the featured guitarist on the album.

In July 2007, the band performed twice at Wembley Stadium. Their first appearance at the stadium was the Concert for Diana which celebrated the life of Princess Diana almost 10 years after her death. The band performed "(Reach Up for the) Sunrise", "Wild Boys" and "Rio".[64] Their second appearance was at Live Earth concert, London. On 25 September, the Timberlake collaboration "Falling Down" was released as a download single on iTunes, and the band announced that they would play nine shows at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Broadway to launch the Red Carpet Massacre album. The album launch was later extended to incorporate a show in London on 3 December 2007 and one in Dublin on 5 December 2007.

In May 2008, they toured the US leg of their 2008 world tour and were supported by the British band Your Vegas. In June 2008, they played the Louvre in Paris in a fundraising effort that contributed to the restoration of a Louis XV drawing room. Guests dined, privately viewed some of the museum's artworks, then attended a performance by the band in the I.M. Pei-designed Pyramid du Louvre. The group's performance marked a first for the 18th-century museum which had never before allowed a rock concert to occur anywhere within the grounds or buildings and another groundbreaker for Duran Duran.

On 2 July 2008, in Paris, Mark Ronson performed a unique live set with Duran Duran for an exclusive, invitation-only performance. Together, they showcased specially re-worked versions of some of Duran Duran's classic hits re-created by Ronson, along with tracks from Red Carpet Massacre. Simon Le Bon also performed songs from Ronson's latest album, Version (2007), as one of Ronson's featured guest vocalists. Unlike the band's previous album Astronaut (2004), Red Carpet Massacre sold poorly and received mixed responses from the music press. In 2008, Rio was included in the Classic Albums series.

2009–2012: All You Need Is Now

See also: All You Need Is Now
 
Duran Duran performing live at the Sydney Entertainment Centre, Australia, 2012

The band departed from Epic Records in 2009, after releasing just two albums. In early 2010, it was revealed that the band would be contributing a cover of "Boys Keep Swinging" to a tribute/charity record for David Bowie called We Were So Turned On from which all profits go to War Child. Other contributing artists included Carla Bruni, Devendra Banhart, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, and Warpaint. The album was released on 14 September 2010 on Manimal Vinyl Records. A limited edition split 7-inch single with Duran Duran and Carla Bruni was also released on Manimal Vinyl in December 2010.

On 21 December 2010, Duran Duran's thirteenth album, titled All You Need Is Now, produced by the Grammy Award-winning Mark Ronson and mixed by Spike Stent, was released exclusively on iTunes and hit the No. 1 spot on download charts in 15 countries (including the UK).[65] The first single from the record, title track "All You Need Is Now", was free to download worldwide on 8 December 2010 exclusively in iTunes.[citation needed] Guitarist and songwriter Dom Brown co-wrote all but two songs on the album.

The expanded physical album, including various format special packages, was released in March 2011, only weeks after the 30th anniversary of the band's first release "Planet Earth". The CD features fourteen tracks, including five tracks not included with the original digital release: "Mediterranea", "Other People's Lives", "Too Bad You're So Beautiful", "Diamond in the Mind", and "Return to Now". The album entered the UK chart at No. 11 and the Billboard chart at No. 29.[citation needed]

On 25 February 2011, while in Milan, Duran Duran received a Style Icons of the 20th Century Award and a key to the city, presented by the city's mayor Letizia Moratti.[66][67]

In March 2011 the band embarked on a world tour in support of the album. After a warm-up show in London, the tour officially began 16 March 2011 in Austin, Texas.[68] On 23 March, the band performed live at the Mayan Theater in Los Angeles as the start of the second season of Unstaged: An Original Series from American Express. The concert was directed by David Lynch and live-streamed on YouTube. The band was joined onstage by Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance, Beth Ditto of Gossip, and Kelis.[69] On 17 April 2011, Duran Duran performed at the Coachella Music Festival located at Empire Polo Grounds, in Indio, California. In May 2011, Le Bon contracted laryngitis leading to either cancellation or rescheduling of most of the European dates for the All You Need Is Now World Tour.[citation needed]

On 27 July 2012, Duran Duran headlined the London Summer Olympics 2012 Opening Ceremony celebration in Hyde Park. They represented England, along with Snow Patrol for Northern Ireland, Stereophonics for Wales, and Paolo Nutini for Scotland.[70] At the end of August 2012, with one week left of their 18-month world tour, the band were forced to cancel the rest of the North American leg of the tour as Nick Rhodes had become ill with a viral infection.[citation needed]

2013–2018: Paper Gods

See also: Paper Gods

On 4 March 2013, the band returned to the studio to work on their fourteenth album, and continued during the week beginning 23 September. They reconvened 13 to 18 December. On 31 December 2013, the band posted a mixtape curated by John Taylor as a New Year's "thank you" to their fans. On 10 February 2014, John Taylor and Roger Taylor worked with the Voce Chamber Choir and London Youth Chamber Choir on vocals for use on some Duran Duran tracks.[71]

Then former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante worked with the band on the new album.[72]

On 11 September 2015, the album Paper Gods was released.[73] The single "Pressure Off" was also released the same week, first via Microsoft's Xbox Music.[74] The song subsequently appeared on Google Play Music.[75] The album debuted at number 10 on the Billboard 200, the band's highest debut in 22 years.[76] The album also reached number 2 in Italy, number 4 in the Netherlands, and number 5 in the UK.

In 2016, the artist MNDR stood in for Nick Rhodes during part of the third leg of the Paper Gods tour in the United States, while he returned to the UK in order to attend to an urgent family matter. Rhodes was quoted as saying, "I will be back as soon as I can but know, in the meantime, that I am leaving both the band and fans in great hands, with the fabulous MNDR."[77] Also, several remixes of their song "Last Night in the City" were released in digital form in that year.

In December 2016, the original band members Le Bon, Rhodes, Andy Taylor, John Taylor and Roger Taylor lost a case in the British High Court after they attempted to reclaim the U.S. copyright on their first three albums from Gloucester Place Music, part of EMI Music Publishing. Rhodes commented, "We signed a publishing agreement as unsuspecting teenagers, over three decades ago, when just starting out and when we knew no better... if left untested, this judgment sets a very bad precedent for all songwriters of our era."[78] In March 2020, Duran Duran signed with the Warner/Chappell Music publisher, covering their post-1986 catalogue.[79]

The band spent 2017 touring the American continent and playing a handful of festival dates in Europe and Asia.

2019–present: Future Past and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction

 
Duran Duran performing at BST Hyde Park 2022, with Nile Rodgers
See also: Future Past (Duran Duran album)

In 2019, Duran Duran was working on a new album with Ronson, Erol Alkan, and Giorgio Moroder handling production duties, and Graham Coxon and Lykke Li being confirmed as collaborators. Nick Rhodes described the content and sound of a possible first single to be "very different for us." Initially planned for release in 2020,[80][81] the recording of the album was put on hold in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[82]

On 8 January 2021, a cover of "Five Years" by David Bowie was released for the fifth anniversary of his death.

On 13 January 2021, Rolling Stone included the album at number 50 on their "54 Most Anticipated Albums of 2021" list. Le Bon said that the album is "quite naked, raw. The grass is slightly sharp and twinkly rather than smooth," and is "groovy (and) modern and very honest. The lyrics are quite something.”[83] On 18 May, the album title was announced as Future Past.[84]

On 19 May, the first single from the album "Invisible" was released along with a music video, and features Coxon as a guitarist and co-writer.[85][86]

On 9 July, the band premiered a second song from the album titled "Give It All Up" on NBC's Today show.[87] On 5 August, Duran Duran released the album's second single "More Joy!", featuring further collaboration with Coxon, Erol Alkan and also Japanese rock band Chai. On 12 August, the band appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon performing "Invisible".[88]

On 31 August, Duran Duran released the album's third single "Anniversary",[89] followed by the fourth single, "Tonight United", on 24 September.[90]

On 14 and 15 September, the band played two sold-out gigs at Birmingham's O2 Institute. That was the first time they played live since their last live gig in 2019. Along with their hit songs, they performed three tracks from Future Past—"Invisible", "Anniversary" and "Tonight United".[91] The band headlined the Isle of Wight festival on 19 September.[92]

On 22 October 2021, Future Past was released. The album entered the UK Album Chart at number 3, the band's highest peak since 2004's Astronaut.[22] This also earned the band the distinction of having UK Top 5 albums in each of the five decades they had been releasing music (1980s–2020s).[22]

On 22 January 2022, Duran Duran premiered on Austin City Limits.

In July 2022, Duran Duran returned to the city of their origin, Birmingham to headline the opening ceremony of Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games playing to a capacity Alexander Stadium.

In 2022, the band topped the fan vote for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for the class of 2022, and in May of that year were announced as one of the seven inductees in the "Performer" category.[93] The ceremony was held on 5 November 2022, where Robert Downey Jr. inducted the band. John Taylor, Roger Taylor, Nick Rhodes and Simon Le Bon each attended the induction ceremony and performed "Girls on Film", "Hungry Like the Wolf" and "Ordinary World" along with longtime touring guitarist Dominic Brown. During the acceptance speech, Simon Le Bon read from a letter written by Andy Taylor, who was absent from the ceremony, that revealed he has been privately fighting stage IV metastic prostate cancer for the past four years and was "massively disappointed" he couldn't attend.[94][95]

On 20 March 2023, Duran Duran took to their Instagram to announce they are working on a new musical project, set for release in late 2023. The work will feature a collaboration with former bandmate Andy Taylor.[96]

Influences

Although they began their career as "a group of art school, experimental, post punk rockers,"[14] the band's quick rise to stardom, polished good looks and embrace of the teen press almost guaranteed disfavour from music critics. During the 1980s, Duran Duran were considered the quintessential manufactured, throw-away pop group. However, according to the Sunday Herald, "To describe them, as some have, as the first boy band, misrepresents their appeal. Their weapons were never just their looks, but self-penned songs."[59] Moby said of the band in his website diary in 2003: "... 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.'"[97]

Influences on Duran Duran included David Bowie, Roxy Music, the Beatles and the Doors,[98] the electronic music of Kraftwerk and Giorgio Moroder, glam rock and American rock such as T. Rex, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed and Sparks, British punk and post-punk bands such as the Clash, Sex Pistols and Siouxsie and the Banshees,[99] the disco/funk band Chic and contemporary synth-pop bands such as Japan,[100] as well as the Japanese electro-pop band Yellow Magic Orchestra.[101] Other electronic peers, such as John Foxx's Ultravox, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) and the Human League, became fixtures in Rhodes's 1980 DJ sets at the Rum Runner club, and were influential on the fledgling Duran Duran.[102]

Several of the band's contemporaries including the Bangles, Elton John, Kylie Minogue, Paul Young and even the Monkees, have named themselves fans of the band's music. Le Bon described the group as "the band to dance to when the bomb drops".[103] Successors like Barenaked Ladies, Beck, Jonathan Davis of Korn, the Bravery, Gwen Stefani and Pink have all cited Duran Duran as a key band in their formative years. Justin Timberlake is a fan of the band and presented them with the Outstanding Contribution award at the 2004 Brit Awards.[104] The most recent crop of performers to name Duran Duran as an influence include Dido, Franz Ferdinand, Panic! at the Disco, Goldfrapp and Brandon Flowers of the Killers, who said, "Nick Rhodes is an absolute hero of mine—their records still sound fresh, which is no mean feat as far as synths are concerned."[105]

Nick Rhodes has directly lent his production techniques to Kajagoogoo debut album White Feathers (1983) and its number one single "Too Shy", and to the Dandy Warhols fourth album Welcome to the Monkey House (2003). The band's music has been used by several hip hop artists, most notably the Notorious B.I.G., who sampled Duran Duran's 1986 single "Notorious". Numerous bands have covered their music on record and in concert.[106]

In video game culture, bassist John Taylor was the model for Dante, the protagonist of the hit PlayStation 2 game Devil May Cry. Dante mirrors John Taylor's looks with his long rocker hairstyle, clothing, and mannerisms.[107]

Videos

The MTV cable channel and the band were launched at about the same time, and each had a hand in propelling the other to greater heights.[108] MTV needed showcase videos with charismatic performers. Les Garland, senior executive vice-president at MTV, said "I remember our director of talent and artist relations came running in and said, "You have got to see this video that's come in". Duran Duran were getting zero radio airplay at the time, and MTV wanted to try to break new music. "Hungry Like the Wolf" was the greatest video I'd ever seen".[29] The band's video work was influential in several ways. First, Duran Duran filmed in exotic locales like Sri Lanka and Antigua, creating memorable images that were radically different from the then-common low budget "band-playing-on-a-stage" videos. Second, rather than simply playing their instruments, the band participated in mini-storylines (often taking inspiration from contemporary movies: "Hungry Like the Wolf" riffs on 1981's Raiders of the Lost Ark, "The Wild Boys" on 1981's Mad Max 2), etc. Videos were obviously headed in this direction already, but Duran Duran led the trend with a style, featuring quick editing, arresting graphic design, and surreal-to-nonsensical image inserts, that drew attention from commentators and spawned a wealth of imitators.

Duran Duran were among the first bands to have their videos shot with a professional movie camera on 35mm film, rather than on videotape, making them look superior to many of the quickly shot videos which had been MTV staples until then. MTV provided Duran Duran with access to American radio markets that were unfriendly to British music, new wave music, or "anything with synthesisers". Because MTV was not available everywhere in the United States at first, it was easy to see a pattern: where MTV went, listener demand for Duran Duran, Tears for Fears, Def Leppard and other European bands with interesting videos went through the roof.[109] The band's sun-drenched videos for "Rio", "Hungry Like the Wolf" and "Save a Prayer", and the surreal "Is There Something I Should Know?" were filmed by future movie director Russell Mulcahy, who made eleven videos for the band. Duran Duran have always sought out innovative directors and techniques, even in their later years when MTV gave them little airplay. In addition to Mulcahy, they have had videos filmed by influential photographers Dean Chamberlain and Ellen von Unwerth, Chinese director Chen Kaige, documentary filmmaker Julien Temple, and the Polish Brothers, among others. According to Nick Rhodes, "Video is to us like stereo was to Pink Floyd."[110]

"The British won out here, hands down. Next to the prosaic, foursquare appearance of the American bands, such acts as Duran Duran seemed like caviar. MTV opened up a whole new world that could not be fully apprehended over the radio. The visual angle played to the arty conceits of Britain's young style barons, suggesting something more exotic than the viewer was likely to find in the old hometown. The big Duran Duran hits, "Girls on Film" and "Hungry Like the Wolf", were MTV favorites three months before radio began to pick up on them. And via MTV, Duran Duran and their like have engendered an outpouring of good old-fashioned hysteria among teenage girls."

— "Anglomania: The Second British Invasion", by Parke Puterbaugh for Rolling Stone, November 1983.[6]

In 1984, Duran Duran introduced video technology into their live stadium shows by being among the first acts to provide video screens above the stage.[111] They have recorded concerts using IMAX and 360-degree panoramic "immersive video" cameras, with 10.2 channel audio. In 2000, they experimented with augmented reality technology, which allowed three-dimensional computer-generated images to appear on stage with the band.[112] They appeared on several century-end video countdowns: The MTV "100 Greatest Videos Ever Made" featured "Hungry Like the Wolf" at No. 11 and "Girls on Film" at No. 68, and the "VH1: 100 Greatest Videos" listed "Hungry" at No. 31 and "Rio" at No. 60. MTV named "Hungry" the 15th of their most played videos of all time.

The band has released several video compilations, starting with the self-titled "video album" Duran Duran (1983), for which they won a Grammy Award, up to the 2004 two-disc DVD release Greatest, which included alternative versions of several popular videos as Easter eggs. In addition to Greatest, the documentary Sing Blue Silver, and the concert film Arena (both from 1984) were released on DVD in 2004. Live from London, a concert video from one of their sold-out 2004 reunion shows at Wembley Arena, was released in the fall of 2005.

Other video collections, concert films, and documentaries remain available only on videotape, and Duran Duran have not yet released a collection which includes all their videos. The band has said that a huge amount of unreleased concert and documentary footage has been filmed over the years, which they hope can be edited and released in some form in the near future. The video for "Falling Down" was released in October 2007. The Nick Egan-directed video for the lead single and title track from All You Need Is Now was premiered via Yahoo Music on 20 December 2010. The second video from All You Need Is Now, "Girl Panic", was released on 8 November 2011. It features some of the world's most famous supermodels, such as Yasmin Le Bon, Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Eva Herzigová and Helena Christensen, playing the band. The video was directed by Jonas Akerlund, and during the filming, an editorial was made for Harper's Bazaar magazine.

Visual style

From the beginning of their career, all the members had a keen sense of visual style. They worked with stylist Perry Haines and fashion designers such as Kahn & Bell and Antony Price to build a sharp and elegant image, soon outgrowing the ruffles and sashes of the pirate-flavoured early New Romantic look that had been popularised by Adam Ant during 1980–81. They have continued to present fashion as part of their package throughout their career. In the 1990s they worked with Vivienne Westwood and in the 2000s with Giorgio Armani. The band retained creative control of their visual presentation having worked closely with graphic designer Malcolm Garrett and many others over the years to create album covers, tour programs and other materials.[113]

Teen and music magazines in the UK latched onto their good looks quickly, and the USA soon followed. It was a rare month in the early 1980s when there was not at least one picture of the band members in teen magazines such as Smash Hits or Tiger Beat. John Taylor once remarked that the band was "like a box of Quality Street [chocolates]; everyone is someone's favourite"[114] Duran Duran later came to regret this early pin-up exposure, but at the time it helped attract national attention. In an interview with Rock Fever Superstars Magazine in early 1988, John Taylor stated:

We used to be a very chi-chi name to drop in '79, but then the Fab Five hype started and something went wrong. Something went really wrong. That wasn't what I wanted. [...] Not that I didn't like being screamed at. At one point I really did".[115]

Band members

Current members

  • Nick Rhodes – keyboards, synthesizers, vocal effects, backing vocals (1978–present); electronic percussion (1978–1979)
  • Simon Le Bon – lead vocals (1980–present)
  • John Taylor – bass (1979–1997; 2001–present), backing vocals (1978–1997; 2001–present), guitars (1978–1979)
  • Roger Taylor – drums, percussion (1979–1985; session 1994, 2001–present)

Former members

  • Stephen Duffy – lead vocals, drums (1978–1979); bass (1978)
  • Simon Colley – bass (1978–1979)
  • Andy Wickett – lead vocals (1979–1980)
  • Alan Curtis – guitars (1979–1980)
  • Jeff Thomas – lead vocals (1980)
  • Andy Taylor – guitars, backing vocals (1980–1986, 2001–2006)
  • Warren Cuccurullo – guitars, backing vocals (1989–2001; session/touring 1986–1989)
  • Sterling Campbell – drums (1989–1991; session/touring 1988–1989)

Timeline

Discography

Main article: Duran Duran discography

Studio albums

Awards and nominations

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Duran Duran

Tours

  • 1981: The Faster Than Light Tour
  • 1981: The Careless Memories Tour
  • 1982: The Rio Tour
  • 1983–1984: The Sing Blue Silver Tour
  • 1987–1988: The Strange Behaviour Tour
  • 1988: The Secret Caravan Club Tour
  • 1988–1989: The Big Live Thing Tour (also known as The Electric Theatre Tour)
  • 1993: An Acoustic Evening with Duran Duran
  • 1993–1994: The Dilate Your Mind Tour
  • 1995: The Thank You Tour
  • 1997: The Ultra Chrome, Latex and Steel Tour
  • 1998: The Greatest and Latest Tour
  • 1999: The Let It Flow Tour
  • 2000: The Pop Trash Tour
  • 2001: The Up Close and Personal Tour
  • 2003–2004: The Reunion Tour
  • 2005–2006: The Astronaut Tour
  • 2007–2008: The Red Carpet Massacre Tour
  • 2009: The Summer Tour
  • 2011–2012: All You Need Is Now
  • 2015: 2015 Tour
  • 2015–2017: Paper Gods on Tour
  • 2022–2023: Future Past Tour

See also

Explanatory notes

  1. ^ None of the three Taylors are related to each other, nor to Queen drummer Roger Taylor.

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This article is about the band For other uses see Duran Duran disambiguation Duran Duran dj ʊ ˌ r ae n dj ʊ ˈ r ae n are an English new wave band formed in Birmingham in 1978 by singer and bassist Stephen Duffy keyboardist Nick Rhodes and guitarist bassist John Taylor With the addition of drummer Roger Taylor the following year the band went through numerous personnel changes before May 1980 when they settled on their most famous line up by adding guitarist Andy Taylor and lead vocalist Simon Le Bon nb 1 Duran DuranDuran Duran at SXSW in Austin Texas 2011From left John Taylor bass Simon Le Bon lead vocals Dominic Brown guitar Roger Taylor drums Nick Rhodes keyboards Background informationOriginBirmingham EnglandGenresNew wave 1 2 synth pop 1 3 dance rock 1 4 Years active1978 presentLabelsCapitolEMIParlophoneVirginEpicHollywoodTapemodernWarner Bros SpinoffsArcadia The Power Station Neurotic Outsiders The Devils TV ManiaMembersSimon Le Bon Nick Rhodes John Taylor Roger TaylorPast membersStephen Duffy Simon Colley Andy Wickett Alan Curtis Jeff Thomas Andy Taylor Warren Cuccurullo Sterling CampbellWebsiteduranduran wbr comWhen Duran Duran emerged they were generally considered part of the New Romantic scene 4 Innovators of the music video Duran Duran were catapulted into the mainstream with the introduction of the 24 hour music channel MTV 5 The group was a leading band in the MTV driven Second British Invasion of the US in the 1980s 6 Photographer Denis O Regan who captured the band during their 1984 tour commented Duran Duran in America was like Beatlemania 7 The band s first major hit was Girls on Film 1981 from their self titled debut album the popularity of which was enhanced by a controversial music video A heavily edited form played in rotation on MTV The band s breakthrough second album was Rio 1982 which peaked at number six in the US number two in the United Kingdom and number one in Australia and Canada The songs Hungry Like the Wolf and Rio featured cinematic music videos directed by Australian film maker Russel Mulcahy and became two of their biggest hits Hungry Like the Wolf won the inaugural Grammy Award for Best Music Video in 1984 Their follow up third album Seven and the Ragged Tiger became their only UK number one album and featured the US and UK number one single The Reflex In 1985 the band topped the US charts with the single A View to a Kill from the soundtrack of the James Bond film of the same name Andy and Roger left the band before the recording of their fourth album Notorious 1986 which yielded the top ten title track The band spent the rest of the 1980s and early 1990s continuing to release albums and singles to only moderate success Their comeback album 1993 s Duran Duran commonly called The Wedding Album featured two top ten worldwide hits Ordinary World and Come Undone After John Taylor left in 1997 the band released a number of albums and singles which underperformed on the sales charts A full reunion of the line up of Le Bon Rhodes and all three Taylors in 2001 led to a number of highly successful concert tours and the 2004 album Astronaut which reached number 3 in the UK and top 40 in numerous other countries The album s lead single Reach Up for The Sunrise was an international dance hit and reached number five in the UK Andy left again in 2006 and the band have released four additional albums with the most recent being Future Past in 2021 According to Billboard Duran Duran have sold over 100 million records 8 They achieved 30 top 40 singles in the UK Singles Chart 14 of them top 10 and 21 top 40 singles in the US Billboard Hot 100 The band have won numerous awards throughout their career two Brit Awards including the 2004 award for Outstanding Contribution to Music two Grammy Awards an MTV Video Music Award for Lifetime Achievement and a Video Visionary Award from the MTV Europe Music Awards They were also awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame The band was inducted into the Rock amp Roll Hall of Fame as part of the class of 2022 9 10 Contents 1 History 1 1 1978 1980 Formation and early years 1 2 1981 1982 Debut album and Rio 1 3 1983 1985 The Fab Five Side projects and Live Aid 1 4 1986 1989 Le Bon Rhodes and John Taylor trio 1 5 1989 1991 Five again Decade and Liberty 1 6 1992 1996 Quartet line up and a brief comeback 1 7 1997 2000 John Taylor s departure and second trio 1 8 2001 2005 Reunion 1 9 2006 2008 Red Carpet Massacre and Andy Taylor s second departure 1 10 2009 2012 All You Need Is Now 1 11 2013 2018 Paper Gods 1 12 2019 present Future Past and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction 2 Influences 3 Videos 4 Visual style 5 Band members 5 1 Current members 5 2 Former members 5 3 Timeline 6 Discography 7 Awards and nominations 8 Tours 9 See also 10 Explanatory notes 11 Citations 12 General and cited references 13 External linksHistory Edit1978 1980 Formation and early years Edit John Taylor and Nick Rhodes formed Duran Duran in 1978 in Birmingham England with Taylor s art school friend Stephen Duffy Naming their band after Dr Durand Durand Milo O Shea s character from the science fiction film Barbarella 1968 the three of them Taylor on guitar and vocals Rhodes on synthesizer and tapes Duffy on vocals and bass played their first gig on 5 April 1979 at the Birmingham Polytechnic They were then joined by Simon Colley on clarinet and bass John then Nigel Taylor was the guitarist at this point After a few gigs including a performance at Barbarella s in Birmingham opening for the band Fashion with Roger Taylor in the audience Duffy and Colley left the band in June 1979 11 Taylor and Rhodes then recruited lead vocalist Andy Wickett formerly frontman of TV Eye and decided that they needed a live drummer Roger Taylor who had previously been in a few local bands most recently The Scent Organs who also played at Barbarella s came on board while John Taylor switched to bass guitar In September 1979 this incarnation of the band recorded a four track demo including an early version of Girls on Film co written by Andy Wickett Soon afterwards Alan Curtis was recruited as lead guitarist After a few gigs with this line up Wickett left the band in late 1979 12 Wickett was replaced by Roger Taylor s friend and former singer of The Scent Organs Jeff Thomas In early 1980 they became the resident band at the city s Rum Runner nightclub They were doing jobs at the club and began rehearsing and regularly playing at the venue Curtis was however unhappy with the Rum Runner club scene and left the band to form Dif Juz with his brother Soon afterwards Jeff Thomas was ousted from the band after disagreements and repeated arguments and the remaining three members started to look for a new lead vocalist and guitarist 13 In April 1980 guitarist Andy Taylor came from Newcastle upon Tyne to audition after responding to an advertisement in Melody Maker Taylor already had a lot of experience from playing with cover bands for years and although he came from a totally different rock music background his versatile playing style was seen as a perfect complement to the band 13 In May 1980 London vocalist and drama student Simon Le Bon was recommended to the band by an ex girlfriend who worked at the Rum Runner 14 The band were immediately impressed by Le Bon and soon completed their first composition with the new line up Sound of Thunder featuring lyrics by Le Bon 15 Duran Duran s first performance with the lineup of Le Bon Rhodes and the three Taylors was on 16 July 1980 at the Rum Runner 16 The owners of the club brothers Paul and Michael Berrow became the band s management paying them to work as doormen disc jockeys DJs and barmen when they were not rehearsing and also formed the Tritec Music company 15 Duran Duran spent the next months writing developing and demoing their songs and performed in clubs around Birmingham and London In September 1980 they had written all of what would become their debut album 17 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 18 A certain patriotism toward the label of the Beatles led them to sign with EMI in December A week later the first article about Duran Duran in a national magazine appeared in Sounds The members of Duran Duran had noticed that Betty Page pen name for Beverley Glick was writing about a new movement called New Romantic that would fit the band perfectly and invited her to meet them at the Rum Runner 15 Shortly after signing the recording contract with EMI Duran Duran went to London to record their debut album with producer Colin Thurston and initial plans for an independent release of the songs Planet Earth and Is There Anyone Out There on the Tritec Music label was scrapped 15 1981 1982 Debut album and Rio Edit See also Duran Duran 1981 album and Rio Duran Duran album The band s debut album Duran Duran was released on the EMI label in June 1981 The first single Planet Earth had reached the United Kingdom s top 20 at no 12 in February A follow up Careless Memories released in April stalled at no 37 However it was their third single Girls on Film released in July 1981 that attracted the most attention The song went to no 5 in the UK The video featuring topless women mud wrestling pillow fighting and stylised depictions of other sexual fetishes was made with directing duo Godley amp Creme in August 19 The video was filmed just two weeks after MTV was launched in the United States 20 The band expected the Girls on Film video to be played in the newer nightclubs that had video screens or on pay TV channels like the Playboy Channel Kevin Godley explained the thinking behind it We were very explicitly told by Duran Duran s management to make a very sensational and erotic piece that would be for clubs where it would get shown uncensored just to make people take notice and talk about it 19 The video was heavily edited for MTV Music Television The album peaked in the UK top twenty at number 3 Later in 1981 the band embarked on their first United States club tour followed by more dates in Germany and the UK This second tour of Britain coincided with a wave of riots sparked by unemployment and racial tension including those of Moss Side and Toxteth The band played Birmingham the day after the Handsworth riots The band also began writing and demoing songs for a new album In November 1981 they released a new single the disco influenced My Own Way that reached no 14 in the UK followed in early 1982 by the recording of their second album at AIR Studios in London 21 In May 1982 Duran Duran released their second album Rio which entered the UK albums chart at no 4 and peaked at no 2 the following week 22 The band scored three UK top 10 hits on the singles chart from the album with Hungry Like the Wolf at no 5 in June Save a Prayer at no 2 in September and the title song Rio at no 9 in December 22 while the earlier top 20 hit My Own Way was included in a re recorded version on the album With the album Duran Duran also began to achieve worldwide recognition A headlining tour of Australia Japan and the US was followed by a stint supporting Blondie during that band s final American tour Diana Princess of Wales declared Duran Duran her favourite band and the band were dubbed the Fab Five by the British press comparing them to the Beatles whose nickname was the Fab Four 23 24 At first the Rio album did not do well in the United States EMI in the UK had promoted Duran Duran as a New Romantic band but the New Romantic movement was barely known in the US and EMI s American subsidiary Capitol Records was at a loss about how to sell them After Carnival an EP of Rio s dance remixes became popular with DJs in the fall the band arranged to have most of the album remixed by David Kershenbaum In June 1982 Duran Duran appeared for the first time on American television performing Hungry Like the Wolf and Rio on Dancin on Air the forerunner to the national hit show Dance Party USA Now promoted as a dance album Rio was re released in the US in November and began to climb the American charts six months after its European success MTV placed Hungry Like the Wolf and several other Duran Duran videos into heavy rotation pushing the single and album into the US top twenty in early 1983 The ballad Save a Prayer also did well 25 The band was a natural for music television noted Rolling Stone magazine They may be the first rock group to ride in on a video wave 5 The album ultimately peaked at number 6 in the US and remained on the charts there for 129 weeks In 2003 Rio was listed at number 65 in the NME 100 Greatest Albums of All Time list 26 Duran Duran was among the earliest bands to work on their own remixes Before the days of digital synthesizer and easy audio sampling they created multi layered arrangements of their singles sometimes recording entirely different extended performances of the songs in the studio 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 27 28 1983 1985 The Fab Five Side projects and Live Aid Edit See also Seven and the Ragged Tiger The Power Station band and Arcadia band The band began 1983 by playing the MTV New Year s Eve Rock n Roll Ball with Hungry Like the Wolf still climbing the charts in the US and the American reissue of the Rio single to follow in March To satisfy America s appetite for their music 14 the band re released their eponymous first album in the US in the middle of the year with the addition of the new single Is There Something I Should Know Upon its release this song entered the chart at number 1 in the UK a rarity then and their first chart topper in their home country and reached number 4 on the American charts During the promotion of this album Rhodes and Le Bon were MTV guest VJs for a show during which artist and admirer Andy Warhol dropped by to greet them Our first gigs in the United States were crazy and culty Rhodes said later But when we came back after Hungry was a hit it was mayhem It was Beatlemania We were doing a signing of the Girls on Film video at a store in Times Square We couldn t get out of the store The cops sealed off the streets 29 30 Also in 1983 keyboardist Nick Rhodes produced the UK number 1 and US number 5 hit Too Shy for English band Kajagoogoo and Andy Taylor became the first member of Duran Duran to get married The band spent the next year as tax exiles writing songs at a chateau in France where The Tube with Jools Holland filmed a documentary with the band in May 1983 before they flew to Montserrat and then Sydney to record and mix their third album During the summer they returned to the UK to perform two concerts the first on 20 July in front of the Prince and Princess of Wales at the Dominion Theatre and the second a charity concert at Aston Villa s home ground The band were under pressure to follow up the success of Rio 1982 and the recording process took over six months as different band members went through bouts of perfectionism and insecurity 31 A newly decadent lifestyle and substance abuse issues for some members added complications In the documentary film Extraordinary World filmed a decade later Rhodes described the effect on their sound as barely controlled hysteria scratching beneath the surface 32 The new album Seven and the Ragged Tiger 1983 included the late 1983 hit Union of the Snake with the soprano saxophone solo by Andy Hamilton With Hungry Like the Wolf Rio Save a Prayer and Is There Something I Should Know Duran Duran now had five US Top Twenty hits from three different albums in a single year The band made music headlines by deciding to release the Union of the Snake video to MTV a full week before the single was released to radio They followed up with New Moon on Monday which reached Number 9 in the UK Their next single The Reflex taken from Seven and the Ragged Tiger and given a significant remix overhaul by Nile Rodgers of Chic fame became their first number one hit in the United States The Reflex was also their second and final UK number one and was successful in numerous other countries around the world Duran Duran in 1983 The band embarked on a global tour that continued throughout the first four months of 1984 including their first major stadium dates in America A film crew led by director Russell Mulcahy followed the band closely leading to the documentary film Sing Blue Silver and the accompanying concert film Arena The live album Arena was also recorded during the tour and was released with the new single The Wild Boys which went to number 2 on both sides of the Atlantic In February 1984 the band appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine and won two Grammy Awards in the brand new Long Form and Short Form music video categories Meanwhile Save a Prayer gained momentum in North America and a special US remix of the song became a single in January 1985 It peaked at No 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 in March A live version of the song was used for the single s B side taken from the concert video footage for Arena As the Lights Go Down During this period all of the band members became heartthrobs for many of their young teenage fans After the tour Roger Taylor was married in Naples Italy and Nick Rhodes wed in London wearing a pink velvet tuxedo and top hat 33 At the end of 1984 the group featured on the Band Aid benefit single Do They Know It s Christmas along with other popular British and Irish musical acts Le Bon sang fourth on the song after Paul Young Boy George and George Michael sing their lines 34 Even with Duran Duran on hold band members were soon anxious to record new music leading to a supposedly temporary split into two side projects John Taylor and Andy Taylor wanted to break away from the Duran Duran sound and pursue hard rock material they collaborated with lead vocalist Robert Palmer and Chic s drummer Tony Thompson to form the rock funk supergroup the Power Station which released two Top 10 singles Simon Le Bon and Nick Rhodes wanted to further explore Duran Duran s atmospheric aspect and formed Arcadia who released one album So Red the Rose from which the single Election Day was released Contributors to that album included guitarist Masami Tsuchiya bassist Mark Egan percussionist David Van Tieghem drummer Steve Jordan Sting Herbie Hancock and David Gilmour of Pink Floyd Roger Taylor was a drummer for Arcadia as well as contributing percussion to the Power Station album Duran Duran were never the same after this break According to Rhodes the two side projects were commercial suicide But we ve always been good at that 29 The band was still off balance when they regrouped to contribute A View to a Kill to the 1985 James Bond movie of the same name This single was the first Bond theme to go to number 1 on the US charts and was at the time the joint highest placed Bond theme on the UK chart where it reached number 2 It was the last single the band recorded as the original five piece for close to twenty years As a follow up to the Christmas 1984 Band Aid single Duran Duran performed in front of 90 000 people and an estimated 1 5 billion TV viewers at the Live Aid charity concert at John F Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia Pennsylvania on 13 July 1985 while their Bond song held the top spot on the American charts It was not intended to be a farewell performance the band planned only to take a break after four years of non stop touring and public appearances but the original five did not play live together again until July 2003 During their Live Aid set Le Bon inadvertently hit an off key falsetto note in the chorus of A View to a Kill an error that was trumpeted by numerous media outlets as The Bum Note Heard Round the World 35 36 in contrast to Freddie Mercury s Note Heard Round the World at the Wembley Stadium Live Aid show 35 37 Le Bon later described the moment as the most embarrassing of his career 36 38 1986 1989 Le Bon Rhodes and John Taylor trio Edit See also Notorious Duran Duran album and Big Thing Duran Duran album Duran Duran as a trio in 1986 After releasing three studio albums and one live album in five years each accompanied by heavy media promotion and lengthy concert tours the band lost two of its core members to fatigue and tension in 1986 After Live Aid and Arcadia drummer Roger Taylor retired to the English countryside suffering from exhaustion 39 This was originally announced as a one year sabbatical but it soon became clear that he would not be returning to the band An official press release was issued in April 1986 confirming his departure In a 2004 interview with LiveDaily Roger Taylor confirmed his reasons for leaving I was burned out I think I was just exhausted It was a very intense five years We didn t stop It was constant touring constant writing recording We broke internationally as well instantly pretty well It s a nonstop schedule really I had lost myself somewhere 40 Guitarist Andy Taylor led the remaining members to believe he would return to work on a new Duran Duran album even as he was signing a solo recording contract in Los Angeles with MCA Records eventually releasing a solo album in 1986 called Thunder The band resorted to legal measures to get him into the studio but after numerous delays they let him go at last He played on only a few songs on the next album including A Matter of Feeling whilst the disagreements were being settled 41 Without a guitarist or a drummer the three remaining members Le Bon Rhodes and John Taylor had producer and former Chic guitarist Nile Rodgers play a few tracks on guitar and hired Steve Ferrone to play drums while they searched for replacements Finally in September 1986 Warren Cuccurullo formerly of Missing Persons and Frank Zappa s band was hired as a session guitarist 42 With Le Bon Rhodes and Taylor he recorded the rest of the Notorious album which was released in October 1986 The black and white documentary film Three to Get Ready chronicled the recording of the album legal tensions and preparations for the tour Although the song Notorious went to number 2 in the US number 7 in the UK the album was a relative failure globally with the album peaking in the UK at No 16 and spending one week in the top 50 album chart and consequently the band found they had lost much of the momentum and hysteria they had left behind in 1985 In the three years between the release of Seven and the Ragged Tiger and Notorious many of their teenage fans had grown up and the music was funkier more mature and less pop given the added experience of their work on Arcadia and Power Station and with other musicians Skin Trade and Meet El Presidente the two subsequent singles made the charts but fared poorly compared to the band s earlier successes Finally in late 1987 Sterling Campbell was hired as a session drummer Subsequently Duran Duran struggled to escape the teen idol image and gain respect among critics with more complex music The new serious image was not accepted at first and their popularity began to wane Rolling Stone said In their search for musical maturity the surviving Durans have lost a good deal of their identity 43 In contrast the New York Times said Duran Duran s newfound disillusionment may mark a step toward maturity they managed to catch a trend on the upswing perhaps Notorious suggests that for late 1980s grit and pessimism is coming into style 44 Another factor was the band s dismissal of early managers the Berrow brothers There was no announcement of the reasons for the decision but disagreements over money and the brothers involvement in Le Bon s yachting adventures they were co owners of Drum were thought to have played a part 45 Whatever the reason Duran Duran switched managers frequently and undertook periods of self management in the later stages of their career In addition EMI fired its president and went through a major corporate restructuring that summer and seemed to have lost interest in promoting the band 46 According to Nick Rhodes the band needed to break up in order to come back together stronger 42 The next album Big Thing 1988 yielded the singles I Don t Want Your Love number 4 in the US and All She Wants Is the last top ten hit in the UK until 1993 The record was experimental mixing influences from house music and raves with Duran s atmospheric synth pop and the creative guitar work of Cuccurullo now a full band member as well as more mature lyrics 1989 1991 Five again Decade and Liberty Edit See also Decade Duran Duran album and Liberty Duran Duran album By the end of 1989 and at the start of the 1990s the popularity of synth pop was fading and losing fans to other momentum gaining music genres at the time such as hip hop techno and alternative rock After touring for the album finished the band regained a five man membership as guitarist Warren Cuccurullo and tour drummer Sterling Campbell were made full members of Duran Duran 47 The compilation album Decade was released late in 1989 along with the megamix single Burning the Ground which consisted of woven snippets of the band s hits from the previous ten years created and produced with John Jones who began working with the band after the release of the band s fifth album Big Thing 1988 The single came and went with little fanfare but the album became another major seller for the band However the 1990 release Liberty a retreat from the experimentation of Big Thing failed to capitalise on any regained momentum The album entered the UK album chart in the top ten but faded away quickly The singles Violence of Summer Love s Taking Over and Serious were only mildly successful For the first time Duran Duran did not tour in support of an album performing on only a handful of club dates and TV shows 48 Sterling Campbell left the band early in 1991 going on to work with Soul Asylum and David Bowie The quartet of Le Bon Rhodes Taylor and Cuccurullo would remain intact for six more years In December 1991 John Taylor then 31 married 19 year old model and actress Amanda de Cadenet and she gave birth to his daughter in March 1992 49 1992 1996 Quartet line up and a brief comeback Edit See also Duran Duran 1993 album and Thank You Duran Duran album In 1993 the band released a second self titled album this Duran Duran album is known as The Wedding Album for Nick Egan s cover art featuring the wedding photos of the band members parents to distinguish it from the 1981 release and was produced and recorded with John Jones The release of this first comeback album was delayed with then manager at Left Bank Tommy Manzi later telling HitQuarters that this was due to industry resistance to the revival of the band who he said would rather focus on the next hip band 50 Listener demand for leaked single Ordinary World forced it onto radio playlists months earlier than planned it reached number 3 on the US chart and number 6 in the UK and won a prestigious Ivor Novello Award for song writing 51 52 Come Undone primarily written by Cuccurullo with lyrics by Le Bon made number 7 in the US and number 13 in the UK Both the band and the record label seemed to be caught by surprise by the album s critical and commercial success No 4 in the UK No 7 in the US Bassist John Taylor had been considering leaving the band but changed his mind The band s largest tour ever which included stops in the Middle East the then recently de embargoed South Africa and South America was halted after seven months when Le Bon suffered from strained vocal cords After six weeks recuperation the band performed intermittently for another five months including appearances in Israel Thailand and Indonesia In 1995 the band released the cover album Thank You Songs from Thank You included covers of Lou Reed s Perfect Day and Melle Mel s White Lines Don t Don t Do It with backing vocals from the original artists The album also marked the temporary return of former drummer Roger Taylor who joined the band in studio to play drums on Watching the Detectives and Perfect Day as well as a cover of Jeepster by T Rex that did not appear on the album In a video interview provided with the album s electronic press kit Reed said he considered Duran Duran s version the best cover ever done of one of his songs and they received praise from Robert Plant and Jimmy Page for their cover of Led Zeppelin s Thank You 31 1997 2000 John Taylor s departure and second trio Edit See also Medazzaland and Pop Trash After the promo tour for Thank You was completed John Taylor co founded the B5 Records label recorded a solo album founded and toured with the supergroup Neurotic Outsiders and reunited the Power Station though the project proceeded without him when he had to withdraw to deal with his divorce from De Cadenet Finally after struggling for months to record the next album Medazzaland in January 1997 Taylor announced at the DuranCon fan convention that he was leaving the band for good 53 His departure reduced the band to two long time members Le Bon and Rhodes and Cuccurullo who decided to continue recording under the name Duran Duran Freed from some internal writing conflicts the band returned to the studio to rewrite and re record many of the songs on Medazzaland Taylor s work remains on only four tracks This album marked a return to the layered experimentation of Big Thing 1988 with intricate guitar textures and processed vocals The track Out of My Mind was used as the theme song for the movie The Saint 1997 but the only true single to be released in the United States was the quirky Electric Barbarella which is one of the first singles ever to be sold online 54 The music video for this single featuring a sexy robot purchased and played with by band members had to be censored before airing on MTV but there was little of the controversy that had surrounded Girls on Film Barbarella peaked at No 52 in the US in October 1997 55 Although Medazzaland was released in the US in October 1997 the album was never released in the UK Barbarella was later released in the UK as a single from the 1998 Greatest compilation album and peaked at No 23 on the UK chart in January 1999 The group played a set at the Princess Diana Tribute Concert on 27 June 1998 by special request of her family 56 Duran Duran parted ways with Capitol EMI in 1999 although the label has since used Duran Duran s back catalogue to release several compilations of remixes and rare vinyl only B sides The band then signed what was intended to be a three album contract with Disney Music Group s Hollywood Records but it lasted only through the poorly received 2000 album Pop Trash This slow paced and heavy album seemed out of keeping with earlier band material 57 Rhodes intricate production and Cuccurullo s songwriting and experimentation with guitar sounds and time signatures were not enough to hook the public and the album did not perform well The dreamy single Someone Else Not Me lasted barely two weeks on the radio although its video was noted as the first to be produced entirely with Flash animation While supporting Medazzaland and Pop Trash Duran Duran toured with bassist Wes Wehmiller and drummer Joe Travers 2001 2005 Reunion Edit See also Astronaut Duran Duran album Duran Duran performing live at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto Canada 2005 In 2000 Le Bon approached John Taylor with a proposal to reform Duran Duran s classic line up They agreed to part company with Cuccurullo after completing the Pop Trash tour Cuccurullo then announced on his website that he was leaving Duran Duran to resume work with his 1980s band Missing Persons This announcement was confirmed the next day by Duran Duran s website followed a day later by the news that John Roger and Andy Taylor had rejoined To fulfill contractual obligations Cuccurullo played three Duran Duran concerts in Japan in June 2001 ending his tenure in the band Throughout 2001 2002 and 2003 the band worked on writing new material initially renting a house in Saint Tropez where audio engineer Mark Tinley built a recording studio for their first serious writing session They then returned to London to do some self financed work with various producers including old friend Nile Rodgers and search for a new record deal It proved difficult to find a record label willing to gamble on the band s comeback so Duran Duran went on tour to prove the drawing power of the reunited band The response of the fans and the media exceeded expectations 58 The band played a handful of 25th anniversary dates across 2003 starting with two arena dates in Tokyo filled to capacity Tickets sold out for each show within minutes and celebrities turned out en masse for reunion dates Amongst these were a number of shows at smaller venues that the band had played on both sides of the pond when they first got together in the early 1980s In August the band were booked as presenters at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards only to be surprised with a Lifetime Achievement Award They also received a Lifetime Achievement award from Q magazine in October and the equivalent Outstanding Contribution award at the BRIT Awards in February 2004 59 Duran Duran in New York City 2005 The pace picked up with a sold out tour of America Australia and New Zealand The band played a full concert at a private tailgate party at Super Bowl XXXVIII their performance of The Wild Boys broadcast to millions during the pre game show A remix of the new track Reach Up for the Sunrise was released on many TV shows in February while magazines hailed the modern Fab Five Duran Duran as one of the greatest bands of all time 60 Duran Duran then celebrated their homecoming to the UK with fourteen stadium dates in April 2004 including five sold out nights at Wembley Arena The British press traditionally hostile to the band accorded the shows some very warm reviews 61 Duran Duran brought along band Goldfrapp and the Scissor Sisters as alternating opening acts for this tour 58 The last two shows were filmed resulting in the concert DVD Duran Duran Live from London which was released in November Finally with more than thirty five songs completed the band signed a two album contract with Epic Records in June and completed the new album now titled Astronaut The album was released in October 2004 and entered the UK charts at number 3 and the US charts at number 17 The first single was Reach Up for the Sunrise which reached number 1 on the Billboard US Dance chart in November and peaked at number 5 on the UK Singles Chart Duran Duran s highest chart position since A View to a Kill in 1985 A second single What Happens Tomorrow debuted at No 11 on the UK chart in February A 5 1 mix of Astronaut was created by Jeremy Wheatley for the dual disc release of Astronaut The CD side contains the album as is and the DVD side contains the 5 1 mix of the album in DVD Audio format along with some DVD footage and videos After a world tour in early 2005 Duran Duran were presented with the PRS Outstanding Contribution to British Music at the 2005 Ivor Novello Awards Later that summer the band headlined the massive Live 8 concert Rome on 2 July 2005 in the Circus Maximus 2006 2008 Red Carpet Massacre and Andy Taylor s second departure Edit See also Red Carpet Massacre Duran Duran in Bogota Colombia 2008 In early 2006 Duran Duran covered John Lennon s song Instant Karma for the Make Some Noise campaign sponsored by Amnesty International Their version later appeared on Instant Karma The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur as an iTunes exclusive bonus track They also performed at two high profile events the Nobel Prize Awards and the 2006 Winter Olympics After a couple of weeks of songwriting in Northern California the band began working with producer Michael Patterson in London and continued intermittently for the next several months At one point they reported having had fifteen tracks nearly complete for an album tentatively titled Reportage but no further news emerged from the band for months afterward In September the band held meetings in New York City with Justin Timberlake and producer Timbaland with an eye to a potential collaboration and were soon reported to have completed three songs with the producer including a song with Justin Timberlake 62 On 25 October 2006 Duran Duran parted company with Andy Taylor once again In an official announcement on their website the band stated that an unworkable gulf had developed between them and Taylor and that we can no longer effectively function together It was noted by Andy Taylor in his book Wild Boy that tensions had arisen between the group s management and himself and he was also diagnosed with clinical depression connected with the death of his father Dom Brown who had previously toured with the band again took over guitar duties and has been performing with them since 63 After Taylor s departure the band scrapped the Reportage album They wrote and recorded a new album titled Red Carpet Massacre 2007 which included the Timbaland tracks Dom Brown is the featured guitarist on the album In July 2007 the band performed twice at Wembley Stadium Their first appearance at the stadium was the Concert for Diana which celebrated the life of Princess Diana almost 10 years after her death The band performed Reach Up for the Sunrise Wild Boys and Rio 64 Their second appearance was at Live Earth concert London On 25 September the Timberlake collaboration Falling Down was released as a download single on iTunes and the band announced that they would play nine shows at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Broadway to launch the Red Carpet Massacre album The album launch was later extended to incorporate a show in London on 3 December 2007 and one in Dublin on 5 December 2007 In May 2008 they toured the US leg of their 2008 world tour and were supported by the British band Your Vegas In June 2008 they played the Louvre in Paris in a fundraising effort that contributed to the restoration of a Louis XV drawing room Guests dined privately viewed some of the museum s artworks then attended a performance by the band in the I M Pei designed Pyramid du Louvre The group s performance marked a first for the 18th century museum which had never before allowed a rock concert to occur anywhere within the grounds or buildings and another groundbreaker for Duran Duran On 2 July 2008 in Paris Mark Ronson performed a unique live set with Duran Duran for an exclusive invitation only performance Together they showcased specially re worked versions of some of Duran Duran s classic hits re created by Ronson along with tracks from Red Carpet Massacre Simon Le Bon also performed songs from Ronson s latest album Version 2007 as one of Ronson s featured guest vocalists Unlike the band s previous album Astronaut 2004 Red Carpet Massacre sold poorly and received mixed responses from the music press In 2008 Rio was included in the Classic Albums series 2009 2012 All You Need Is Now Edit See also All You Need Is Now Duran Duran performing live at the Sydney Entertainment Centre Australia 2012 The band departed from Epic Records in 2009 after releasing just two albums In early 2010 it was revealed that the band would be contributing a cover of Boys Keep Swinging to a tribute charity record for David Bowie called We Were So Turned On from which all profits go to War Child Other contributing artists included Carla Bruni Devendra Banhart Edward Sharpe amp the Magnetic Zeros and Warpaint The album was released on 14 September 2010 on Manimal Vinyl Records A limited edition split 7 inch single with Duran Duran and Carla Bruni was also released on Manimal Vinyl in December 2010 On 21 December 2010 Duran Duran s thirteenth album titled All You Need Is Now produced by the Grammy Award winning Mark Ronson and mixed by Spike Stent was released exclusively on iTunes and hit the No 1 spot on download charts in 15 countries including the UK 65 The first single from the record title track All You Need Is Now was free to download worldwide on 8 December 2010 exclusively in iTunes citation needed Guitarist and songwriter Dom Brown co wrote all but two songs on the album The expanded physical album including various format special packages was released in March 2011 only weeks after the 30th anniversary of the band s first release Planet Earth The CD features fourteen tracks including five tracks not included with the original digital release Mediterranea Other People s Lives Too Bad You re So Beautiful Diamond in the Mind and Return to Now The album entered the UK chart at No 11 and the Billboard chart at No 29 citation needed On 25 February 2011 while in Milan Duran Duran received a Style Icons of the 20th Century Award and a key to the city presented by the city s mayor Letizia Moratti 66 67 In March 2011 the band embarked on a world tour in support of the album After a warm up show in London the tour officially began 16 March 2011 in Austin Texas 68 On 23 March the band performed live at the Mayan Theater in Los Angeles as the start of the second season of Unstaged An Original Series from American Express The concert was directed by David Lynch and live streamed on YouTube The band was joined onstage by Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance Beth Ditto of Gossip and Kelis 69 On 17 April 2011 Duran Duran performed at the Coachella Music Festival located at Empire Polo Grounds in Indio California In May 2011 Le Bon contracted laryngitis leading to either cancellation or rescheduling of most of the European dates for the All You Need Is Now World Tour citation needed On 27 July 2012 Duran Duran headlined the London Summer Olympics 2012 Opening Ceremony celebration in Hyde Park They represented England along with Snow Patrol for Northern Ireland Stereophonics for Wales and Paolo Nutini for Scotland 70 At the end of August 2012 with one week left of their 18 month world tour the band were forced to cancel the rest of the North American leg of the tour as Nick Rhodes had become ill with a viral infection citation needed 2013 2018 Paper Gods Edit See also Paper Gods On 4 March 2013 the band returned to the studio to work on their fourteenth album and continued during the week beginning 23 September They reconvened 13 to 18 December On 31 December 2013 the band posted a mixtape curated by John Taylor as a New Year s thank you to their fans On 10 February 2014 John Taylor and Roger Taylor worked with the Voce Chamber Choir and London Youth Chamber Choir on vocals for use on some Duran Duran tracks 71 Then former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante worked with the band on the new album 72 On 11 September 2015 the album Paper Gods was released 73 The single Pressure Off was also released the same week first via Microsoft s Xbox Music 74 The song subsequently appeared on Google Play Music 75 The album debuted at number 10 on the Billboard 200 the band s highest debut in 22 years 76 The album also reached number 2 in Italy number 4 in the Netherlands and number 5 in the UK In 2016 the artist MNDR stood in for Nick Rhodes during part of the third leg of the Paper Gods tour in the United States while he returned to the UK in order to attend to an urgent family matter Rhodes was quoted as saying I will be back as soon as I can but know in the meantime that I am leaving both the band and fans in great hands with the fabulous MNDR 77 Also several remixes of their song Last Night in the City were released in digital form in that year In December 2016 the original band members Le Bon Rhodes Andy Taylor John Taylor and Roger Taylor lost a case in the British High Court after they attempted to reclaim the U S copyright on their first three albums from Gloucester Place Music part of EMI Music Publishing Rhodes commented We signed a publishing agreement as unsuspecting teenagers over three decades ago when just starting out and when we knew no better if left untested this judgment sets a very bad precedent for all songwriters of our era 78 In March 2020 Duran Duran signed with the Warner Chappell Music publisher covering their post 1986 catalogue 79 The band spent 2017 touring the American continent and playing a handful of festival dates in Europe and Asia 2019 present Future Past and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Edit Duran Duran performing at BST Hyde Park 2022 with Nile Rodgers See also Future Past Duran Duran album In 2019 Duran Duran was working on a new album with Ronson Erol Alkan and Giorgio Moroder handling production duties and Graham Coxon and Lykke Li being confirmed as collaborators Nick Rhodes described the content and sound of a possible first single to be very different for us Initially planned for release in 2020 80 81 the recording of the album was put on hold in March 2020 due to the COVID 19 pandemic 82 On 8 January 2021 a cover of Five Years by David Bowie was released for the fifth anniversary of his death On 13 January 2021 Rolling Stone included the album at number 50 on their 54 Most Anticipated Albums of 2021 list Le Bon said that the album is quite naked raw The grass is slightly sharp and twinkly rather than smooth and is groovy and modern and very honest The lyrics are quite something 83 On 18 May the album title was announced as Future Past 84 On 19 May the first single from the album Invisible was released along with a music video and features Coxon as a guitarist and co writer 85 86 On 9 July the band premiered a second song from the album titled Give It All Up on NBC s Today show 87 On 5 August Duran Duran released the album s second single More Joy featuring further collaboration with Coxon Erol Alkan and also Japanese rock band Chai On 12 August the band appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon performing Invisible 88 On 31 August Duran Duran released the album s third single Anniversary 89 followed by the fourth single Tonight United on 24 September 90 On 14 and 15 September the band played two sold out gigs at Birmingham s O2 Institute That was the first time they played live since their last live gig in 2019 Along with their hit songs they performed three tracks from Future Past Invisible Anniversary and Tonight United 91 The band headlined the Isle of Wight festival on 19 September 92 On 22 October 2021 Future Past was released The album entered the UK Album Chart at number 3 the band s highest peak since 2004 s Astronaut 22 This also earned the band the distinction of having UK Top 5 albums in each of the five decades they had been releasing music 1980s 2020s 22 On 22 January 2022 Duran Duran premiered on Austin City Limits In July 2022 Duran Duran returned to the city of their origin Birmingham to headline the opening ceremony of Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games playing to a capacity Alexander Stadium In 2022 the band topped the fan vote for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for the class of 2022 and in May of that year were announced as one of the seven inductees in the Performer category 93 The ceremony was held on 5 November 2022 where Robert Downey Jr inducted the band John Taylor Roger Taylor Nick Rhodes and Simon Le Bon each attended the induction ceremony and performed Girls on Film Hungry Like the Wolf and Ordinary World along with longtime touring guitarist Dominic Brown During the acceptance speech Simon Le Bon read from a letter written by Andy Taylor who was absent from the ceremony that revealed he has been privately fighting stage IV metastic prostate cancer for the past four years and was massively disappointed he couldn t attend 94 95 On 20 March 2023 Duran Duran took to their Instagram to announce they are working on a new musical project set for release in late 2023 The work will feature a collaboration with former bandmate Andy Taylor 96 Influences EditAlthough they began their career as a group of art school experimental post punk rockers 14 the band s quick rise to stardom polished good looks and embrace of the teen press almost guaranteed disfavour from music critics During the 1980s Duran Duran were considered the quintessential manufactured throw away pop group However according to the Sunday Herald To describe them as some have as the first boy band misrepresents their appeal Their weapons were never just their looks but self penned songs 59 Moby said of the band in his website diary in 2003 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 97 Influences on Duran Duran included David Bowie Roxy Music the Beatles and the Doors 98 the electronic music of Kraftwerk and Giorgio Moroder glam rock and American rock such as T Rex Iggy Pop Lou Reed and Sparks British punk and post punk bands such as the Clash Sex Pistols and Siouxsie and the Banshees 99 the disco funk band Chic and contemporary synth pop bands such as Japan 100 as well as the Japanese electro pop band Yellow Magic Orchestra 101 Other electronic peers such as John Foxx s Ultravox Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark OMD and the Human League became fixtures in Rhodes s 1980 DJ sets at the Rum Runner club and were influential on the fledgling Duran Duran 102 Several of the band s contemporaries including the Bangles Elton John Kylie Minogue Paul Young and even the Monkees have named themselves fans of the band s music Le Bon described the group as the band to dance to when the bomb drops 103 Successors like Barenaked Ladies Beck Jonathan Davis of Korn the Bravery Gwen Stefani and Pink have all cited Duran Duran as a key band in their formative years Justin Timberlake is a fan of the band and presented them with the Outstanding Contribution award at the 2004 Brit Awards 104 The most recent crop of performers to name Duran Duran as an influence include Dido Franz Ferdinand Panic at the Disco Goldfrapp and Brandon Flowers of the Killers who said Nick Rhodes is an absolute hero of mine their records still sound fresh which is no mean feat as far as synths are concerned 105 Nick Rhodes has directly lent his production techniques to Kajagoogoo debut album White Feathers 1983 and its number one single Too Shy and to the Dandy Warhols fourth album Welcome to the Monkey House 2003 The band s music has been used by several hip hop artists most notably the Notorious B I G who sampled Duran Duran s 1986 single Notorious Numerous bands have covered their music on record and in concert 106 In video game culture bassist John Taylor was the model for Dante the protagonist of the hit PlayStation 2 game Devil May Cry Dante mirrors John Taylor s looks with his long rocker hairstyle clothing and mannerisms 107 Videos EditThe MTV cable channel and the band were launched at about the same time and each had a hand in propelling the other to greater heights 108 MTV needed showcase videos with charismatic performers Les Garland senior executive vice president at MTV said I remember our director of talent and artist relations came running in and said You have got to see this video that s come in Duran Duran were getting zero radio airplay at the time and MTV wanted to try to break new music Hungry Like the Wolf was the greatest video I d ever seen 29 The band s video work was influential in several ways First Duran Duran filmed in exotic locales like Sri Lanka and Antigua creating memorable images that were radically different from the then common low budget band playing on a stage videos Second rather than simply playing their instruments the band participated in mini storylines often taking inspiration from contemporary movies Hungry Like the Wolf riffs on 1981 s Raiders of the Lost Ark The Wild Boys on 1981 s Mad Max 2 etc Videos were obviously headed in this direction already but Duran Duran led the trend with a style featuring quick editing arresting graphic design and surreal to nonsensical image inserts that drew attention from commentators and spawned a wealth of imitators Duran Duran were among the first bands to have their videos shot with a professional movie camera on 35mm film rather than on videotape making them look superior to many of the quickly shot videos which had been MTV staples until then MTV provided Duran Duran with access to American radio markets that were unfriendly to British music new wave music or anything with synthesisers Because MTV was not available everywhere in the United States at first it was easy to see a pattern where MTV went listener demand for Duran Duran Tears for Fears Def Leppard and other European bands with interesting videos went through the roof 109 The band s sun drenched videos for Rio Hungry Like the Wolf and Save a Prayer and the surreal Is There Something I Should Know were filmed by future movie director Russell Mulcahy who made eleven videos for the band Duran Duran have always sought out innovative directors and techniques even in their later years when MTV gave them little airplay In addition to Mulcahy they have had videos filmed by influential photographers Dean Chamberlain and Ellen von Unwerth Chinese director Chen Kaige documentary filmmaker Julien Temple and the Polish Brothers among others According to Nick Rhodes Video is to us like stereo was to Pink Floyd 110 The British won out here hands down Next to the prosaic foursquare appearance of the American bands such acts as Duran Duran seemed like caviar MTV opened up a whole new world that could not be fully apprehended over the radio The visual angle played to the arty conceits of Britain s young style barons suggesting something more exotic than the viewer was likely to find in the old hometown The big Duran Duran hits Girls on Film and Hungry Like the Wolf were MTV favorites three months before radio began to pick up on them And via MTV Duran Duran and their like have engendered an outpouring of good old fashioned hysteria among teenage girls Anglomania The Second British Invasion by Parke Puterbaugh for Rolling Stone November 1983 6 In 1984 Duran Duran introduced video technology into their live stadium shows by being among the first acts to provide video screens above the stage 111 They have recorded concerts using IMAX and 360 degree panoramic immersive video cameras with 10 2 channel audio In 2000 they experimented with augmented reality technology which allowed three dimensional computer generated images to appear on stage with the band 112 They appeared on several century end video countdowns The MTV 100 Greatest Videos Ever Made featured Hungry Like the Wolf at No 11 and Girls on Film at No 68 and the VH1 100 Greatest Videos listed Hungry at No 31 and Rio at No 60 MTV named Hungry the 15th of their most played videos of all time The band has released several video compilations starting with the self titled video album Duran Duran 1983 for which they won a Grammy Award up to the 2004 two disc DVD release Greatest which included alternative versions of several popular videos as Easter eggs In addition to Greatest the documentary Sing Blue Silver and the concert film Arena both from 1984 were released on DVD in 2004 Live from London a concert video from one of their sold out 2004 reunion shows at Wembley Arena was released in the fall of 2005 Other video collections concert films and documentaries remain available only on videotape and Duran Duran have not yet released a collection which includes all their videos The band has said that a huge amount of unreleased concert and documentary footage has been filmed over the years which they hope can be edited and released in some form in the near future The video for Falling Down was released in October 2007 The Nick Egan directed video for the lead single and title track from All You Need Is Now was premiered via Yahoo Music on 20 December 2010 The second video from All You Need Is Now Girl Panic was released on 8 November 2011 It features some of the world s most famous supermodels such as Yasmin Le Bon Cindy Crawford Naomi Campbell Eva Herzigova and Helena Christensen playing the band The video was directed by Jonas Akerlund and during the filming an editorial was made for Harper s Bazaar magazine Visual style EditFrom the beginning of their career all the members had a keen sense of visual style They worked with stylist Perry Haines and fashion designers such as Kahn amp Bell and Antony Price to build a sharp and elegant image soon outgrowing the ruffles and sashes of the pirate flavoured early New Romantic look that had been popularised by Adam Ant during 1980 81 They have continued to present fashion as part of their package throughout their career In the 1990s they worked with Vivienne Westwood and in the 2000s with Giorgio Armani The band retained creative control of their visual presentation having worked closely with graphic designer Malcolm Garrett and many others over the years to create album covers tour programs and other materials 113 Teen and music magazines in the UK latched onto their good looks quickly and the USA soon followed It was a rare month in the early 1980s when there was not at least one picture of the band members in teen magazines such as Smash Hits or Tiger Beat John Taylor once remarked that the band was like a box of Quality Street chocolates everyone is someone s favourite 114 Duran Duran later came to regret this early pin up exposure but at the time it helped attract national attention In an interview with Rock Fever Superstars Magazine in early 1988 John Taylor stated We used to be a very chi chi name to drop in 79 but then the Fab Five hype started and something went wrong Something went really wrong That wasn t what I wanted Not that I didn t like being screamed at At one point I really did 115 Band members EditCurrent members Edit Nick Rhodes keyboards synthesizers vocal effects backing vocals 1978 present electronic percussion 1978 1979 Simon Le Bon lead vocals 1980 present John Taylor bass 1979 1997 2001 present backing vocals 1978 1997 2001 present guitars 1978 1979 Roger Taylor drums percussion 1979 1985 session 1994 2001 present Former members Edit Stephen Duffy lead vocals drums 1978 1979 bass 1978 Simon Colley bass 1978 1979 Andy Wickett lead vocals 1979 1980 Alan Curtis guitars 1979 1980 Jeff Thomas lead vocals 1980 Andy Taylor guitars backing vocals 1980 1986 2001 2006 Warren Cuccurullo guitars backing vocals 1989 2001 session touring 1986 1989 Sterling Campbell drums 1989 1991 session touring 1988 1989 Timeline EditDiscography EditMain article Duran Duran discography Studio albums Duran Duran 1981 Rio 1982 Seven and the Ragged Tiger 1983 Notorious 1986 Big Thing 1988 Liberty 1990 Duran Duran 1993 Thank You 1995 Medazzaland 1997 Pop Trash 2000 Astronaut 2004 Red Carpet Massacre 2007 All You Need Is Now 2010 Paper Gods 2015 Future Past 2021 Awards and nominations EditMain article List of awards and nominations received by Duran DuranTours Edit1981 The Faster Than Light Tour 1981 The Careless Memories Tour 1982 The Rio Tour 1983 1984 The Sing Blue Silver Tour 1987 1988 The Strange Behaviour Tour 1988 The Secret Caravan Club Tour 1988 1989 The Big Live Thing Tour also known as The Electric Theatre Tour 1993 An Acoustic Evening with Duran Duran 1993 1994 The Dilate Your Mind Tour 1995 The Thank You Tour 1997 The Ultra Chrome Latex and Steel Tour 1998 The Greatest and Latest Tour 1999 The Let It Flow Tour 2000 The Pop Trash Tour 2001 The Up Close and Personal Tour 2003 2004 The Reunion Tour 2005 2006 The Astronaut Tour 2007 2008 The Red Carpet Massacre Tour 2009 The Summer Tour 2011 2012 All You Need Is Now 2015 2015 Tour 2015 2017 Paper Gods on Tour 2022 2023 Future Past TourSee also EditList of artists who reached number one in the United States List of artists who reached number one on the U S Dance Club Songs chart List of artists 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