After they "tore the roof off the place," they convened in Los Angeles with Rhodes, who said he was up for a reunion of the original band, but only if a new Duran Duran album was part of the deal.Īfter a few phone calls, the three unrelated Taylors gathered with Rhodes and LeBon and recorded "Astronaut," a 12-song collection that sounds like Duran Duran without sounding outdated, a club-ready, groove-heavy set built for 2005. He was touring as a solo act around 2000 when LeBon joined him onstage in New York for a few songs. Taylor said the decision to regroup came incrementally. We're trying to turn ourselves on, and everyone else at the same time." We're not just dragging our asses around, trying to make a buck here. "We love what we do," John Taylor said in an interview from his Los Angeles home before the tour launched. tour stopping in Salt Lake City on Saturday, the first time the original quintet has ever visited Utah. Back then, the quintet merged several musical styles with platinum success thanks to the members' love of glammy romantics like Roxy Music, art-rockers like David Bowie and American funksters like Chic, and they took advantage of the then-new medium of music video to become arguably the biggest beneficiaries of MTV's birth in 1981.Īfter dwindling to only two original members by the end of the 1990s, the original Duran Duran - singer Simon LeBon, bassist John Taylor, keyboardist Nick Rhodes, guitarist Andy Taylor and drummer Roger Taylor - is back with a new album, "Astronaut," and a massive U.S. It's easy for the cynical to dismiss Duran Duran's reunion, especially for those who cringe at the memory of '80s pop music, whether it's the poofy hair, inexplicable fashions, synthesizer-heavy sounds or MTV-induced style dominating musical substance that rubs them the wrong way.įor fans of the band who were dubbed "The Fab Five" by the music media at the time - so fast and widespread was Duran Duran's early '80s success - the re-emergence of the five original members for the first time since 1983's "Seven and the Ragged Tiger" album is cause for celebration. My personal picks, though, go with "A View to a Kill" and "Sunrise" and let's not forget the monumental, accidental and crazed "Wild Boys", a helluva of clip.MTV's earliest wild boys are back, and bringing new songs and old hits to SLC
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Along with "Rio" clip (same album) it has to be one of their greatest video triumphs, very memorable. They were hot without overreacting in the sexiness. Still a lot better than the junk that came in the years to come. It's not like many other Brit or American videos that came in the 1980's, the style and visual was good and effective, translating much of the song's message but today it's a little strange to watch them.
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Compared to many artists from the period, the sound always were what made them what they are the clips were top notch back in the 1980's, I must say. Instant classic clip with Le Bon throwing a table at a bar their band mates running to rescue him - John Taylor, man, and that opened shirt, woof - the fight/sex scene with Simon and the girl.pure gold. So, "Hungrly like the Wolf" presents Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes and three Taylors (Nick, John and Roger) in strange adventures in Sri Lanka, evoking "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and even "Apocalypse Now" - strangers in a strange land in search of adventures, running all around in an exotic place filled with poverty, crowded spaces and one particular exotic and gorgeous woman, object of attraction of Le Bon of whom he searches and has a final and wild moment filled with eroticism, and we expect, they don't show but they were about to devour each other like wild animals. A perfect mix of rock and pop, the great sound of the 1980's. And in that moment we were all hungry like wolves.This cinematic clip directed by Russell Mulcahy (a few years before "Highlander") is the one that put Duran Duran on the map, a heavily aired clip on MTV back in the day presenting what the band was all about: edgy, sexy and with sounds and melody that captured your attention very easily.