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Duran Duran have been my obsession for most of my life. I decided to create this thread for myself to have a place where all the videos are right there for me to look at, and to stop me from constantly posting them on other peoples threads . I will also post any interviews or bits of trivia about the band.
If you don't like the band, you're entitled to your opinion but please don't stop in just to tell me so. Any fellow fans, please feel free to add your own favourites or anything else concerning the band that you would like to share. There is 30 years of material so I can keep this going for quite some time, all positive contributions are welcome.
I guess I will start where it all started for me. Planet Earth was their debut single (UK and Australia) in 1981 and might have even gone to number one here. It made me sit up and listen instantly (at the ripe old age of 11), I had never seen anything like these guys and the video was stunning in its day. It was directed by Aussie director Russel Mulcahy who had already started making a name for himself in the music industry directing a string of Australian groups and then moving to the UK to direct videos by all of the major pop groups of the day. Russel would go on to direct many of the bands early videos and then eventually movies.
Stylistically they started in the New Romantic trend of the time, they didn't stay in that style for long but will always be associated with that particular movement. This video shows them wearing the frilly shirts, baggy pants and boots that characterised the New Romantic fashion.
Cheesy memory lane time: I still have a tape recorded copy of an interview Simon le Bon and Nick Rhodes gave Rona Barrett on the radio way back around 1984 - in it Nick mentions that he just got married to Julie Anne Friedman (I had several mags like Star Hits where they printed pictures of their wedding, she was stunningly beautiful) and actually some callers got to call in and ask questions. I was not yet a teen and remember that I nearly fainted listening to it. The tape still has a heart-shaped sticker on it.
If there was no Roxy Music there would have been no Duran Duran. Anyway, they were a good band. I like Oridnary World which a lot of people snIcker at. A great song which was a comeback of sorts aftre not having hits for several years.
Cheesy memory lane time: I still have a tape recorded copy of an interview Simon le Bon and Nick Rhodes gave Rona Barrett on the radio way back around 1984 - in it Nick mentions that he just got married to Julie Anne Friedman (I had several mags like Star Hits where they printed pictures of their wedding, she was stunningly beautiful) and actually some callers got to call in and ask questions. I was not yet a teen and remember that I nearly fainted listening to it. The tape still has a heart-shaped sticker on it.
She was beautiful, but apparently a bit of a nutter. They had some very public rows and then when they divorced they had a big fight over their daughter.
I bought any magazine that had a picture of them on it or in it. My whole bedroom wall was plastered with pictures of them, My mother used to call it the torture chamber...
If there was no Roxy Music there would have been no Duran Duran. Anyway, they were a good band. I like Oridnary World which a lot of people snIcker at. A great song which was a comeback of sorts aftre not having hits for several years.
That's true, Roxy music were a big influence on them. They also site David Bowie as a major influence.
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. I will also post any interviews or bits of trivia about the band.
I love their music...
Great songs
