Everything about Duran Duran totally explained
Duran Duran are an
English rock band notable for a long series of popular
singles and vivid
music videos, for which they won two
Grammy Awards. They were the most commercially successful of the
New Romantic bands and a leading band in the
MTV-driven "
Second British Invasion" of the
United States. Since the 1980s they've placed 21 singles in the
Billboard Hot 100 and 30 in the Top 40 of the
UK Singles Chart, and have sold more than 85 million records.
A selection of the band's hit singles from the
1980s include, "
Girls on Film", "
Rio", "
Hungry Like the Wolf", "
Save a Prayer", "
Notorious", and the James Bond theme "
A View to a Kill". In the early
1990s, the band released, "
Ordinary World" and "
Come Undone", and released "
Sunrise", and "
What Happens Tomorrow" in the
2000s. Andy Taylor left the band in summer 2006, and London guitarist Dom Brown has been working with the band since.
History
Beginning (1978–1980)
John Taylor and Nick Rhodes formed Duran Duran in
Birmingham, UK in 1978, naming the band after the
villain "Dr. Durand Durand", played by
Milo O'Shea in
Roger Vadim's science-fiction film,
Barbarella. Their first singer was
Stephen Duffy. Several drummers and guitarists were subsequently tried, as well as a handful of vocalists after Duffy left Duran Duran early in 1979.
The meeting of drummer
Roger Taylor with Taylor and Rhodes at a party, led John Taylor, who originally played
lead guitar, to switch to bass. Guitarist Andy Taylor came from Newcastle to audition after responding to a magazine advertisement, and London vocalist Simon Le Bon was recommended to the band by an ex-girlfriend who worked at the
Rum Runner nightclub where the band rehearsed. The owners of the club, brothers Paul and Michael Berrow, became the band's management, paying them to work as doormen, disc jockeys and glass collectors when they were not rehearsing.
The group was generally considered part of the
New Romantic scene, with other style-and-dance bands such as
Spandau Ballet,
Japan and
ABC. In 1980, they recorded two
demo tapes and performed in clubs around
Birmingham and
London. In late 1980, when touring as an opening act for
Hazel O'Connor, the band attracted critical attention, resulting in a bidding war between the record companies
EMI and
Phonogram Records. "A certain patriotism" toward the label of
The Beatles led them to sign with EMI in December. However, Nick Rhodes said in a 1998 interview with
Deluxe magazine, that the band felt they were "appallingly ripped off" by the EMI contract.
Duran Duran was amongst the earliest bands to work on their own
remixes. Before the days of digital synthesizers and easy
audio sampling, they created multilayered arrangements of their singles, sometimes recording entirely different extended performances of the songs in the studio. 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 in
1998.
From the beginning of their career, the band members each had a keen sense of 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 New Romantic look. Whilst they may have suffered the typical hair spray and
mullet excesses of the 1980s, they've continued to present fashion as part of the 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 and worked closely with graphic designer
Malcolm Garrett and many others over the years, to create album covers, tour programmes, and other materials.
All five members of the band were photogenic, labelled the "the prettiest boys in rock" by
People magazine. Teen and music magazines in the UK latched onto their good looks quickly, and the U.S. soon followed. It was a rare month in the early eighties when there wasn't 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" Duran Duran would later come 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."
Band launch (1981–1982)
The band's first
album,
Duran Duran, was released on the EMI label in 1981. The first single, "
Planet Earth", reached the
United Kingdom's Top 20 at Number 12. A follow-up, "
Careless Memories," stalled at Number 37. However, it was their third single, "Girls On Film", that attracted the most attention. The song went to Number 5 in the UK, before the notorious video was even filmed. That video, featuring topless women
mud wrestling and stylized depictions of other
sexual fetishes, was made with directing duo
Godley & Creme in August.
The video was filmed just two weeks after MTV was launched in the
United States. 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, erotic piece that would be for clubs, where it would get shown uncensored, just to make people take notice and talk about it.
The raunchy video created an uproar and was banned by the
BBC and heavily edited for MTV. The band unabashedly enjoyed and capitalised on the controversy. 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 an eerily quiet Birmingham the day after the
Handsworth riots.
Duran Duran began to achieve worldwide recognition in 1982. In May, they released their second album,
Rio, which scored four UK Top Twenty singles with "
My Own Way", "
Hungry Like the Wolf", "
Save A Prayer", and the title song "
Rio". A headlining tour of Australia, Japan, and the U.S. 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 was dubbed "
The Fab Five" by the British press. The Fab Five moniker was an indirect tribute to the The Fab Four, one of the many titles bestowed upon
The Beatles for their revolutionary impact upon the worldwide music scene.
However, the
Rio album didn't do well in the United States at first. EMI in the UK had promoted Duran Duran as a New Romantic band, but that genre was barely known in the U.S., and
Capitol Records (EMI's American branch) 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. Only after it was re-released in the U.S. in November, with heavy promotion as a dance album, did
Rio begin to climb the American charts, six months after its European success. MTV placed "Hungry Like the Wolf" and then several other Duran Duran videos into heavy rotation, pushing it and "Rio" into the top twenty on the U.S. charts in early 1983; the seduction ballad "Save A Prayer" also did well. "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." In the end, the album peaked at number 6 in the U.S. and remained on the charts there for 129 weeks — almost two and a half years. In
2003,
Rio was listed at number 65 in the
NME 100 Greatest Albums Of All Time.
On top of the world (1983–1984)
Duran Duran 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 U.S., and the American reissue of the "Rio" single to follow in March. To satisfy America's newly awakened thirst for all things Duran,
Also in
1983, keyboardist Nick Rhodes produced the UK Number 1 and US Number 5 hit "Too Shy" for the English band
Kajagoogoo, and Andy Taylor became the first member of Duran Duran to get married. The band's main pop rivals were now
Culture Club and
Wham!.
Duran Duran spent the next year as
tax exiles, writing songs at a chateau in France in
May 1983 before flying to
Montserrat and then
Sydney to record and mix their third album. The band was under enormous pressure to follow up the success of
Rio, and the recording process took over six months as different band members went through bouts of perfectionism and insecurity. A newly decadent lifestyle and
substance abuse issues 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".
The new album,
Seven and the Ragged Tiger, included the late 1983 hit "
Union of the Snake"; following "Hungry Like the Wolf", "Rio", "Save A Prayer" and "Is There Something I Should Know", Duran Duran had had five U.S. 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, at a time when the industry feared
video really might kill the radio star. They followed up with "
New Moon on Monday", which after reaching no 9 in the UK dropped out of the UK charts very promptly, possibly threatening their success. However 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.
The band then embarked on a massive 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 studio 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. After the tour, Roger Taylor was married in
Naples, Italy, and Nick Rhodes wed in
London, famously wearing a pink velvet tuxedo and top hat.
At the end of 1984, the group was featured on the
Band Aid benefit single "
Do They Know It's Christmas?" along with other popular British musical acts. Simon Le Bon sang a prominent vocal, between contributions from
George Michael and
Sting.
Band falls apart (1985)
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 and Andy Taylor wanted to break away from the Duran Duran sound and pursue hard rock material; they collaborated with
Robert Palmer and
Tony Thompson to form the rock/funk
supergroup Power Station, which released two Top 10 singles. Simon Le Bon and Nick Rhodes, on the other hand, wanted to further explore Duran Duran's atmospheric aspect and formed
Arcadia, who released one LP from which the single "Election Day" was released. Roger Taylor was primarily the drummer for Arcadia, but also contributed 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."
At the end of
1985, Le Bon married model
Yasmin Parvaneh. During the previous year, he'd taken up the hobby of
yachting, and he drew unwanted media attention when his maxi-yacht
Drum capsized during the
August 1985 Fastnet race, trapping him inside the hull for twenty minutes. Nevertheless, he went on to participate in the 1986
Whitbread Round the World Race.
New directions (1986–1991)
After releasing five albums 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. This was originally announced as a one year
sabbatical, but it soon became clear that he wouldn't be returning to the band. An official press release was issued in
April 1986 confirming his departure. Guitarist Andy Taylor, on the other hand, led the remaining members to believe he'd return to work on a new Duran Duran album even as he was signing a solo recording contract in
Los Angeles. 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 while the disagreements were being settled.
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
studio musicians to play drums while they searched for replacements. Finally in
September 1986,
Warren Cuccurullo (formerly of
Missing Persons and
Frank Zappa's touring band) was hired as a sessions guitarist. 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 two in the U.S. and album sales were strong, the band found they'd lost much of the momentum and hysteria they'd 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 many gifted musicians. "
Skin Trade" and "
Meet El Presidente", the two subsequent singles, made the charts but fared poorly compared to the band's earlier successes.
Subsequently, Duran Duran's fame began to wane as they struggled to escape the
teen idol image and gain critical success with more complex music.
Rolling Stone said, "In their search for musical maturity, the surviving Durans have lost a good deal of their identity." 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. Whatever the reason, Duran Duran switched managers frequently and undertook periods of self-management in the later stages of their career. In addition, EMI (which fired its president and went through a major corporate restructuring that summer) seemed to have lost interest in promoting the band.
The next album
Big Thing (1988) yielded the singles "
I Don't Want Your Love"(#4 at US HOT100), "
Do You Believe In Shame?" and "
All She Wants Is" (the last a top ten hit in the UK). The record was experimental, mixing influences from
house music and
rave music with Duran's atmospheric
synth pop and Cuccurullo's creative guitar work, as well as more mature lyrics (the juvenile title track notwithstanding). Inexplicably during this time, the group was credited as Duranduran on some of the releases (one word, instead of two).
The compilation album 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. The single came and went with little fanfare, but the album became another major seller for the band.
However, the tepid 1990 release
Liberty (a retreat from the experimentation of
Big Thing) failed to capitalise on any regained momentum, a pattern the band repeated often in their later years. 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, and the album's soft rock didn't fare well against contemporaries like
Alice in Chains and
Jane's Addiction, while
Nirvana,
Pearl Jam and the
grunge revolution were just around the corner. For the first time, Duran Duran didn't tour in support of an album, performing on only a handful of club dates and TV shows.
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, Taylor (then 31) married 19-year-old model/actress
Amanda De Cadenet, and she gave birth to his daughter in
March 1992.
Second climb, second fall (1992–1996)
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. Listener demand for leaked single "
Ordinary World" forced it onto radio playlists months earlier than planned; it reached Number 3 on the U.S. chart and Number 6 in the UK and won a prestigious
Ivor Novello Award award for song writing. His departure reduced the band to two original members (Le Bon and Rhodes) and Cuccurullo, who decided to continue recording under the name Duran Duran.
Alternative period (1997–2000)
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, with intricate guitar textures and processed vocals. The track "
Out of My Mind" was used as the theme song for the movie
The Saint, but the only true single to be released in the United States was the quirky "
Electric Barbarella", which was the first single ever to be sold
online. The 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 #52 in the U.S. in
October 1997. Although
Medazzaland was released in the U.S. 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 #23 on the UK chart in
January 1999.
The group played a set at The Princess Diana Tribute Concert on
June 27,
1998 by special request of her family.
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'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. 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 didn't 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.
Re-forming the original band and return to the big time (2001–2006)
In
2000, John Taylor approached Le Bon and Rhodes with a proposal to re-form Duran Duran's classic line-up. They agreed, and after completing the
Pop Trash tour fired Cuccurullo by letter. 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 the 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
August 2001, ending his tenure in the band.
Throughout
2001,
2002 and
2003, the band worked on writing new material, initially renting a house in
St. Tropez where sound 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 everyone’s expectations.
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 the
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy TV show
soundtrack in February, while the Queer Eye guys (the modern "Fab Five") hailed Duran Duran as "the first
metrosexuals". 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. Duran Duran brought along bands like
Scissor Sisters, and
Goldfrapp, as opening acts for this tour.
On
October 25,
2006, Andy Taylor parted ways with Duran Duran for the second time. In an official announcement on their website, Duran Duran stated that an "unworkable gulf" had developed between them and Taylor and that "we can no longer effectively function together".
Dominic Brown, who had previously toured with the band, took over guitar duties and has been performing with them since. After Taylor's departure, the band scrapped the
Reportage album and wrote and recorded a new album which included the Timbaland tracks. Dominic Brown is the featured guitarist.
In July, the band performed twice at the massive
Wembley Stadium, at the
Concert for Diana and at
Live Earth concert, London. As of May 2008, they're on the US leg of their 2008 world tour.
On
September 25, the Timberlake collaboration "
Falling Down" was released as a download single on
iTunes, and the band announced that they'd play nine shows at the
Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Broadway to launch the album
Red Carpet Massacre. The album launch was later extended to incorporate a show in London on and one in Dublin on .
Influence
Although they began their career as "a group of art school, experimental, post punk rockers",
Several of the band's contemporaries including
The Bangles,
Elton John,
Kylie Minogue and
Paul Young, have named themselves fans of the band's stylish, uplifting pop. Le Bon described the group as "the band to dance to when the bomb drops". 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. The newest crop of performers to name Duran Duran as influences include
Dido,
Franz Ferdinand,
Panic! at the Disco,
Lostprophets (who took their name from the title of a Duran Duran bootleg tape),
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".
Nick Rhodes has directly lent his production techniques to the bands
Kajagoogoo with the song,
White Feathers and
The Dandy Warhols, with
Welcome to the Monkey House. The band's music has been used by several
hip hop artists, most notably
Notorious B.I.G., who sampled Duran Duran's 1986 single "Notorious". Numerous bands have covered their music on record and in concert.
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. 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".
Duran Duran'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 a total of 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've 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".
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. 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.
[
Duran Duran appeared on several century-end video countdowns: The MTV "100 Greatest Videos Ever Made" featured "Hungry Like The Wolf" at #11 and "Girls On Film" at #68, and the "VH1: 100 Greatest Videos" listed "Hungry" at #31 and "Rio" at #60. MTV named "Hungry" the fifteenth of their most-played videos of all time.]
The band has released several video compilations, starting with the self-titled "video album" Duran Duran, 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 Stadium, 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 October 2007.
Band members' timeline
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Discography
- Duran Duran (15 June, 1981) #3 UK, #10 U.S - 6 million albums sold worldwide
- Rio (10 May, 1982) #2 UK, #6 U.S - 10 million
- Seven and the Ragged Tiger (21 November, 1983) #1 UK, #8 U.S - 12 million
- Notorious (18 November, 1986) #16 UK, #12 U.S - 5 million
- Big Thing (18 October, 1988) #15 UK, #24 U.S - 3 million
- Liberty (20 August, 1990) #8 UK, #46 U.S - 1.5 million
- Duran Duran AKA The Wedding Album (23 February, 1993) #4 UK, #7 U.S - 6.5 million
- Thank You (27 March, 1995, covers) #12 UK, #19 U.S - 1.5 million
- Medazzaland (14 October, 1997) #58 U.S #19 CAN - 400.000
- Pop Trash (19 June, 2000) #53 UK, #135 U.S - 300.000
- Astronaut (11 October, 2004) #3 UK, #17 U.S - 2 million
- Red Carpet Massacre (19 November UK, 2007) (13 November US, 2007) #44 UK, #36 US
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