Duran Duran
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Duran Duran: We’re Big Boys Now
Interview by Steve Turner, Company, 1988
Simon Le Bon doesn’t look like a teen idol on this particular day. A T-shirt flaps around the top of loose black trousers, his hair ...
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Duran Duran: Just Fine And Dandy
Interview by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 31 January 1981
THE NAME of Birmingham group Duran Duran has no connection with Japanese covers of Chiffons songs. ...
Duran Duran: Duran Duran (EMI)
Review by Chris Bohn, New Musical Express, 4 July 1981
D'RONE D'RONE ...
Duran Duran: Ice Cream the Body Electric!
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 25 July 1981
Teenybop takes a trite turn for the better. Paul Morley compares socks with DURAN DURAN ...
Duran Duran: Duran Duran (Harvest ST12158)
Review by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, September 1981
BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND'S Duran Duran, yet another entrant in the let's-play-synth-disco-with-silly-costumes chart sweepstakes, had a recent hit with a wretchedly tedious piece of routine ass-wag called ...
In New York New York With Duran Duran
Interview by Mike Stand, Smash Hits, 15 October 1981
So good they named 'em twice. Postcard from Mike Stand. ...
Duran Duran: Rum Runner, Birmingham
Live Review by Chas de Whalley, Record Mirror, 12 December 1981
THERE WASN'T a lot to see, for a start. When Duran Duran returned to their old stamping ground in Birmingham's trendy but tiny Rum Runner ...
Report and Interview by Chas de Whalley, Record Mirror, 19 December 1981
DURAN DURAN find life a gas in more ways than one. Eternally intrepid CHAS DE WHALLEY takes it all with a pinch of salt (or ...
Duran Duran/Talk Talk: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Neil Tennant, Smash Hits, 7 January 1982
A LOT OF headbands and scarves in the audience tonight: red silk scarves tied around bushy barnets; thin chiffon numbers screwed round youthful necks; Palestinian ...
Duran Duran: From Brags To Riches
Interview by Betty Page, Sounds, 29 May 1982
ONCE UPON a time, five fresh-faced boys based in Brum summoned a cynical hackette to witness the emergence of a certain indefinable sort of big-bam-glam-electro-rock ...
Duran Duran: On A Wing And A Prayer
Report and Interview by Ian Birch, Smash Hits, 19 August 1982
Duran Duran stop over in California and find they have to get out and push. Words: Ian Birch. ...
Duran Duran: World Domination By 1984
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 11 September 1982
THEIR AMBITION – Simon's least, and in all probability the rest of them – is to one day become Bryan Ferry. They didn't say that ...
Duran Duran: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Mick Sinclair, Sounds, 13 November 1982
Ghouls on film ...
Duran Duran: OH! You Pretty Things From Planet Earth
Interview by Toby Goldstein, Creem, January 1983
WE JOURNALISTS like to believe our opinions are graven in stone. Let's face it, in the global scheme of things, the relative power of a ...
Interview by Ian Birch, Smash Hits, 17 March 1983
They came by the lorryload.Thanks to you, we got the biggest response ever to a Question and Answer feature. We plucked out the best and ...
Duran Duran, Robert Palmer, Prince Charles & The City Beat Band: Villa Park, Birmingham
Live Review by Paul Sexton, Record Mirror, 30 July 1983
A whisper to a scream ...
Duran Duran: That Was The Week That Was
Report and Interview by Neil Tennant, Smash Hits, 4 August 1983
The week when Duran Duran got mobbed, met the Royals and hit the headlines every time they moved. Neil Tennant was never far behind them. ...
Duran Duran: Life In The Land Down Under
Report and Interview by Dave Rimmer, Smash Hits, 24 November 1983
Duran Duran have just got back from three months in Australia. Before they left, Dave Rimmer flew out to join them. ...
Duran Duran: Apollo, Manchester
Live Review by Max Bell, The Times, 8 December 1983
Trapped in idolatry ...
Interview by Neil Tennant, Smash Hits, 19 January 1984
Two people are having lunch in Paris. One of them is a tax exile who owns an Aston Martin sports car, is permanently pursued by ...
Interview by Fiona Russell Powell, The Face, February 1984
IT'S THE day before Christmas Eve and I'm on my way to The Savoy hotel, 15 minutes late already for my interview with Simon Le ...
Duran Duran: Am What They Yam: And That's The Snakes…
Interview by Chris Salewicz, Creem, April 1984
THE BELLIGERENT, black North Sea crashes with a grim rhythm in the opposite side of the main road to Brighton's Grand Hotel. Its force, however, ...
Duran Duran: Arena (Parlophone)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 17 November 1984
AND THE APHIDS CRIED/THROUGH THE DRIFTING HAZE/"NAFF LP, LADS!" ...
Interview by Fiona Russell Powell, The Face, March 1985
"I HAVE NOTHING to say — read my books" is Andy Warhol's standard riposte to most would-be interviewers. David Yarritu — a former assistant of ...
The Ups and Downs of Stephen "Tin Tin" Duffy
Interview by William Shaw, Smash Hits, 14 March 1985
That's the title of his new LP. Fitting, really, for a bloke who was once the singer in Duran Duran and then written off as ...
Frankie Goes To Hollywood: Swiss Franks
Report and Interview by Helen Fitzgerald, Melody Maker, 25 May 1985
Finally, FRANKIE relaxed and invited Helen FitzGerald to chase them round picturesque Montreux. So what did happen in that brothel in Frankfurt? What do Frankie ...
Report and Interview by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 2 September 1985
ADAM SWEETING investigates the selling of a pop star package ...
Duran Duran: The Pop Dream Come True
Report and Interview by Dave Rimmer, The Face, December 1985
NIGHT SETTLES ON The Palace Hotel, Philadelphia, like a sigh of relief. All the acts have finished all their frantic, last minute preparations for Live ...
Nile Rodgers: Man of the Moment
Interview by Adam Sweeting, Melody Maker, 4 October 1986
Buddies with Bowie, big pals with Duran, mate of Al Jarreau, is there no-one NILE RODGERS doesn't know? Adam Sweeting charts the changing life and ...
How To Make A Pop LP Called Notorious
Interview by Tom Hibbert, Smash Hits, 17 December 1986
PART ONE: NOTORIOUS In which the three members of Duran Duran talk "openly" and "frankly" (and "incomprehensibly") about the creation of their latest "waxing". Moroccan interview: ...
Review by Michele Kirsch, Select, September 1990
DURAN DURAN, like most early '80s hygienic post-punk pop, played alongside current chart hits has you yearning for stuff you hated first time round. Compare ...
Duran Duran: The Wedding Album
Review by Chas de Whalley, Vox, April 1993
NEARLY 12 YEARS ON, and Messrs Le Bon, Taylor and Rhodes are still peddling the same kind of prosaic pop which was their calling card ...
Interview by David A. Keeps, Details, April 1993
Duran Duran spent one half of the '80s as international pop playboys and the other half surviving the experience. Will success spoil them again? David ...
Duran Duran: The Amazing Lazarus Brothers
Profile and Interview by Mat Snow, Q, September 1993
"I MASTURBATE to Duran Duran videos," announced Andy Warhol in his twilight days. Should one's speculations incline in that direction, one wonders whether the peroxide-periwigged ...
Top Of The Pops and The '80s Brit Pop Boom
Overview by Stuart Maconie, Q, November 1994
YOU CAN tell if they're boys or girls these days, that's the trouble. Just look at them, these so-called modern pop phenomena. ...
Eyewitness: Simon Le Bon sinks aboard Drum England
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Q, June 1998
WITNESS: Various DATE: 11 August 1985 LOCATION: Two miles off the Cornish coast. ...
Duran Duran: 'Hungry Like the Wolf'
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Blender, 2003
VITAL STATISTICS:SONG: Hungry Like the WolfARTIST: Duran DuranLABEL: EMI-Harvest/Capitol ...
Duran Duran: The Singles 81-85
Review by Daryl Easlea, Record Collector, May 2003
DURAN DURAN were, of course, the original band who wanted to combine the Sex Pistols with Chic. Taking their name from a character in the ...
Duran Duran: The Old Romantics
Profile and Interview by Robert Sandall, The Independent, 17 September 2004
IN A POP WORLD full of ageing Peter Pans with expensive habits to service, ex-wives to maintain and children to educate, attempted comebacks are common, ...
How I Discovered Duran Duran. Or Did They Discover Me?
Memoir by Beverley Glick, beverleyglick.com, 2005
In the third extract from my memoir Hit Girl: My Bizarre Double Life in the Pop World of the Eighties, I tell the story of my ...
The Day I discussed the meaning of life with Simon Le Bon
Memoir by Beverley Glick, Rock's Backpages, 13 April 2012
MY RELATIONSHIP with Simon Le Bon began back in December 1980, when I was a rookie writer for Sounds and visited the Rum Runner club ...
Duran Duran, Stereophonics, Paolo Nutini, Snow Patrol: Olympic Concert, Hyde Park, London
Live Review by Nick Hasted, The Independent, 28 July 2012
Snow Patrol, Simon Le Bon and Ricky Gervais's beard strike a chord ...
Looking Back to Planet Earth and Beyond: Five Decades of Duran Duran
Retrospective and Interview by Wyndham Wallace, Classic Pop, December 2012
Please, please tell me now! As John Taylor publishes his autobiography, In The Pleasure Groove: Love, Death & Duran Duran, Wyndham Wallace accompanies him through ...
A World Of Dreaded Fear: Band Aid's Unforgivable Crimes
Retrospective by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 10 December 2013
Band Aid raised awareness of a disastrous famine, as well as huge sums of money to try ease it. But, one year ahead of its ...
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see also Stephen "Tin Tin" Duffy
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