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Duran Duran
sign deal with Epic Records
(from duranduran.com)
Founding lineup's first new studio album in 19 years due out in October
2004 on Epic Records.
Band works with hit making R&B and alternative rock producers.
New York, NY-- The original members of Duran Duran‹ Simon LeBon (vocals),
Andy Taylor (guitar), John Taylor (bass), Roger Taylor (drums) and Nick
Rhodes (keyboards) have announced the impending
release of their first new album together since 1983's multi-platinum 'Seven
& the Ragged Tiger.' Epic Records will release the as-yet-untitled record
worldwide in October 2004.
Writing in the south of France and recording at Sphere Studios in London,
the band members are currently working with producers Rich Harrison (Mary J. Blige, Alicia Keys, Beyonce, Usher) and Don
Gilmore (Good Charlotte, Linkin Park, Pearl Jam, Sugar Ray), thereby drawing
on a unique combination of R&B and alternative rock experience.
The poignant "What Happens Tomorrow" and the electric/rock "Sunrise" (a
version of which was featured on the "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy"
soundtrack), both of which the band members have played live
since reuniting in 2003, are slated for inclusion on the new album. Other
song highlights include the moody, noirish "Still Breathing" and the
mischievous "Bedroom Toys." Stylistically adventurous, the
album showcases the diverse influences and abilities of each band member,
blending brash rock guitar with slick synths and LeBon's inimitable lyrics
and melodies.
The album will also feature a one hour bonus DVD including live footage shot
over two nights at London's Wembley Arena this past spring and exclusive
behind-the-scenes video.
The announcement comes on the heels of a remarkable run of seventeen sold
out arena dates in the UK and Ireland and a victory at the BRIT Awards where
the band members were honored for
their "Outstanding Contribution to Music. " They've also received Lifetime
Achievement Awards at the MTV Video Music Awards in New York and the Q
Magazine Awards in London in the past year.
Writing and recording material between these triumphant tour dates and
accolades, the band poured their rediscovered chemistry and creative energy
into the new album. "When we decided to reunite, the
first thing we did was head to France to test our chemistry. It became
really clear that the magic was still there," explains LeBon. "Since then,
playing together live has cemented it. We've
really rediscovered an incredible musical relationship."
In 2003, Duran Duran celebrated their 25th anniversary and the reunion of
the five founding band members with a run of tremendously successful
sold-out shows. They played to screaming
fans in the U.S. and Japan and filled vast stadiums in Australia and New
Zealand. The tour dates marked the first time the original members had
played together since Live Aid in 1985.
The New York Post called one show, "powerful and inventive," while the
Village Voice declared, "[Duran Duran] swooned us to altitudesecclesiastic."
More articles:
First Coast News:
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/entertainment/news-article.aspx?storyid=20048
KATU:
http://www.katu.com/news/story.asp?ID=68272
Belleville News:
http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/entertainment/8928632.htm
Lexington Herald:
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/entertainment/8928632.htm
XPress
http://www.xposed.com/headline_news/123_ds_571115.aspx
News Journal:
http://www.news-journal.com/enter/content/shared-gen/ap/Recordings/Music_Duran_Duran.html;COXnetJSessionID=APRnWB3W8k
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The Day:
http://www.theday.com/eng/web/news/re_ap.aspx?re=M/MUSIC_DURAN_DURAN
ABC News:
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Entertainment/ap20040615_1356.html
Boston Globe:
http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2004/06/15/duran_duran_regrouping_for_a_new_album/
Sentinel Online:
http://www.cumberlink.com/articles/2004/06/15/ap/Entertainment/d837lj7g0.txt
New Jersey.com:
http://www.nj.com/newsflash/entertainment/index.ssf?/base/entertainment-3/1087320254298110.xml
CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/15/music.duran.duran.ap/index.html
iWon:
http://apnews1.iwon.com//article/20040615/D837JLN00.html?PG=home&SEC=news
Jacksonville.com
http://wire.jacksonville.com/pstories/20040615/2238558.shtml
Riverside Press:
http://www.pe.com/sharedcontent/registration/register.jsp (you have to
register to access)
Newsday:
http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/news/wire/sns-ap-music-duran-duran,0,
2427642.story?coll=sns-ap-entertainment-headlines
Fresno Bee
http://www.fresnobee.com/24hour/entertainment/story/1437908p-8785451c.html
Miami Herald:
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/8928632.htm?1c
Times Union:
http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=257475&category=Entertainment&BCCode=ARTSMAIN&newsdate=6/15/2004
Baltimore Sun
http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/custom/wire/ats-ap_entertainment
11jun15,0,7839519.story?coll=sns-ap-topentertainment
New York Post
http://breakingnews.nypost.com/dynamic/stories/M/MUSIC_DURAN_DURAN?SITE=NYNYP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
USA Today:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MUSIC_DURAN_DURAN?SITE=TXDAM&TEMPLATE=MUSIC.html
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Rescued woman
reunited with rock star
from BBC NEWS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/3609603.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/video/40017000/rm/_40017083_duran7x_vi.ram
http://www.hellomagazine.com/celebrities/2004/04/08/simonlebon/
Sing Blue
Silver and Arena DVD release info update
Sing Blue Silver & Arena
was released on DVD in Europe, April 5th. Arena CD will follow on April
13th.
The USA will release the DVDs on May 4th and the CD on June 1st.
Japan and Australia are set to release the DVDs on April 13th.
Sunday's Daily
Record (Scotland)
SIMON Le Bon admits Duran Duran imploded in the mid 80s because they were
being exploited in the cut-throat music business.
With the group becoming famous for big yachts, dating supermodels, making
videos in Sri Lanka and all the other excesses of pop stars, most of us will
be wishing we could be that exploited too.
But for Simon and the original band members Nick Rhodes, John Taylor, Roger
Taylor and Andy Taylor the lack of control was enough for the friendship to
splinter.
However, the five always felt they hadn't finished what they'd started and
now they've made a stunning comeback.
Fresh from February's Outstanding Contribution To Music award at the Brit
Awards they start a sold-out 17-date tour on Wednesday and will appear at
Glasgow's SECC on April 15.
Simon said: 'We broke up because of power. It was about who was running the
ship. Was it us, or was it the manager and the record company?
'We fell out with the business, but not each other.
'We were being exploited. We'd lost creative control or any control of our
lives. The joy was sucked right out of it like the air in an explosion.'
It could have been so different. Back in the mid 80s, career wise they were
one of the biggest bands in the world.
Second album Rio, released in 1982, spent two years in the charts and the
single Is There Something I Should Know? gave them their first No. 1 in the
UK in 1983.The Reflex was number one in the UKand America in 1984.
Their theme tune to Bond movie A View To A Kill also went to No. 1 in
America in 1985.
Duran Duran were big business. The US leg of their Sing Blue Silver tour in
1984 was compared to Beatle mania, but the group felt the band simply wasn't
their own any more.
They took a six-month break with Simon, keyboard player Nick and drummer
Roger forming Arcadia and bassist John and guitarist Andy joining forces
with Robert Palmer and drummer Tony Thompson to form Power Station.
Roger, suffering from exhaustion and a near-nervous breakdown, quit in 1985
after Live Aid.
Simon said: 'There were all kinds of stresses. There was internal stress
from the dissatisfaction and unhappiness in the group. We weren't looking
after each other. We'd become a little bit blasA.
'We weren't seeing how it was affecting each other and we took each other
for granted. Roger got out and it gave us all a big shake up.'
Andy was due to return to the Duran Duran fold for the Notorious album, but
decided on a solo career as a guitar axe-man in Los Angeles and he also quit
the group in 1985. It was the end of the Duran Duran the tukka-booted,
frilly-shirted, dyed bouffant haired, lipstick-smeared Duranies of both
sexes knew and loved.
The group brought in Warren Cuccurullo as a full-time guitarist and carried
on, enjoying a renaissance with 1993's The Wedding Album which spawned the
group's most successful single Ordinary World.
But the boom was short lived and John Taylor left in 1996 as Duran faded
into obscurity, releasing albums like Poptrash which were ignored.
Only one thing could save Duran Duran the return of the original members.
By 2001 there were rumours of a reunion and now in 2004 the original group
are in the studio recording their first album together since Seven and the
Ragged Tiger in 1984.
Simon said: 'We were very surprised at how much people wanted us to re-form.
It was a shock.'
For the band, the Brits was a huge pat on the back and they are still
enjoying the warm glow of adoration.
The group performed Hungry Like The Wolf, Ordinary World and Wild Boys at
the show.
THEY are one Eighties band that survived the decade that taste forgot (even
though they were a huge part of the frills) and it was a coup to have the
award given to them by Justin Timberlake, who flew in especially for it.
Simon said: 'We were absolutely ecstatic to pick up the award, but it was an
even bigger treat to perform in front of a great British audience with the
original line-up.'
Their hits collection Greatest went to number four after the Brits show the
first time they've been in the top 10 since The Wedding Album in 1993.
Simon, as lead singer, could have gone for a solo career. But he claims that
was never an option. He said: 'I have done stuff on my own but I really like
being in a band.
'I enjoy that feeling of being in a team and looking after my boys.'
Duran Duran were formed in Birmingham in 1978 by Nick and John Taylor. Their
original singer Stephen Duffy was dumped and Simon was the last one of the
group to join, thanks in part to a pair of pink leopard skin trousers he
wore to the audition.
The line-up had a residency at the Rum Runner club in Birmingham and took
their name from a character in sci-fi movie Barbarella.
Simon admits his fondest memories of Scotland are from around that time.
He said: 'I'd been in the band for about three months and we'd played our
first show at the Rum. I was still at university in Birmingham studying
drama, but I was doing a play at the Edinburgh Festival.'I hadone leg in the
band and one leg in the festival and had a great couple of weeks.
'The play was just with two people and was called Sandman. For the first
half of it I was a sadistic ring master and then for the rest of it I was in
drag. 'It was thoroughly entertaining at least for the two of us who were in
it.'
And the pink trousers which swung the rest of the band into giving him a
shot as singer? Simon laughed: 'My ex-girlfriend gave them to Oxfam.' The
singer admits the group gelled straight away after he joined Nick, John,
Andy and Roger and the first song they wrote together was Sound Of Thunder.
He added: 'They were playing it and I said I had something for it. I sang
the melody with Sound Of Thunder and went home that night and wrote the
lyrics. It fitted perfectly.' Thanks to a support slot on a tour with Hazel
O'Connor late in 1980, they won a contract with EMI.
Debut single Planet Earth in 1981 reached the Top 20 and was followed by
Careless Memories which only just made it into the Top 40.
But it was Girls On Film which made them stars, thanks to a very raunchy
Godley & Creme video which featured nude models, mud wrestling and, in
particular, a nipple and an ice cube. It was banned and the band became
household names.
The video also laid down the blueprint of the group: Big, brash, bold and
stuffed with models. The UK may have been suffering from mass unemployment
but there was Duran Duran on a yacht, somewhere hot with loads of babes.
It was no wonder they became MTV's first superstars.
But the good times only lasted three years until Andy and Roger left in
1985.
Even when Ordinary World put them back on the map, they blew it. Simon
admitted: 'We seem to get out of sync with the rest of the world on a
regular basis.
'We did it with Liberty which was released when rave and grunge first
started and then after Ordinary World we thought we were top of the world
but we took too long to make the follow up a covers album (called Thank
You).'
The band were laughed at for covering Public Enemy's 911 Is A Joke.
BUT Simon stands by the decision: 'We did a bloody great version of that
Public Enemy song. It just wasn't what people wanted from us.
'It was around that time when people started talking about getting the
original band together.
'We did Medazzaland and John left and then we did Pop Trash and I thought we
were on a real decline.
'Me, Warren and Nick toured in 2000 and I realized we weren't happy with the
way things were going. I went to see John in LA and we talked about how we
weren't going the way we wanted to. We decided to get the original guys back
together and that was that.'
Nick, who hadn't had any contact with fellow founding member John for three
years, agreed.
Simon visited Andy who said yes and in turn Andy went to see Roger who also
agreed.
Simon added: 'The general feeling was if we were ever going to do it, now
was the time to do it.
'We didn't want to roll up our newspapers and sit by the fire smoking pipes
for the rest of our lives.
'We wanted to get out there and do something.'
Andy, Roger and John went off to play their instruments together for the
first time since Live Aid 1985.
Of the new material they are currently recording, Simon, married to model
Yasmin and a dad of three girls, claims: 'We don't want to get stuck in the
80s rut and be regarded just as a revivalist group. Our new music has more
teeth. Roger is hitting the drums harder.'
The new-found friends hired a house in France for two weeks and played
together every day, staying up until the early morning until the engineer
had fallen asleep at the faders.
That trip produced nine songs. Sunrise, the first new song from the original
line-up in two decades was recently included on Queer Eye for the Straight
Guy soundtrack.
'Now we have 23 new songs,' Simon added.
'But an album is never completed until it's on the shelves and we are some
ways off that right now.'
For Duranies, the wait will have been well worth it.
Duran Duran's live album Arena is re-issued on Monday. The band's live
concert film Arena and the Sing Blue Silver tour documentary will also be
released on DVD on Monday.
COPYRIGHT 2004 Scottish Daily Record & Sunday
Congratulations to Duran Duran on receiving their Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music
If you missed it....download it here
http://www.klausolsen.no/duran/ (for audio and video of performance)
http://www.duranitaly.com/maineng.htm (for mp3 of
performance)
Brit Award articles
http://www.brits.co.uk/page?articleId=3050
http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100localnews/page.cfm?objectid=13963601&method=full
http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/awards/2004-02-17-brit-awards_x.htm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2004/02/18/nbrits18.xml&sSheet=/arts/2004/02/18/ixmusictop.html
http://www.duranduran.com/news/index.asp?newsID=3350
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/news/story.jsp?story=492426
Brit Award photos
http://www.denis.co.uk/acatalog/insite_duran.html
http://www.duranduran.com/bboard/duranduran/90538_flat.html
http://www.wireimage.com/GalleryListing.asp?navtyp=GLS====51969&nbc1=1&str=1199&styp=clbi&sfld=&c4nvi=3&sortval=0a
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/news/brits/gallery_arrivals/7.shtml
http://www.brits.co.uk/page?articleType=All+Articles.BRIT+Awards.Shows.2004+BRIT+Awards.Photo+Gallery
http://www.wireimage.com/GalleryListing.asp?navtyp=GLS====51969&nbc1=1&str=1199&styp=clbi&sfld=&c4nvi=3&sortval=0a
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Duran still have teen appeal
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/entertainment/music/articles/9098208?source=PA%20Feed
Peeping under rock for the Next Beatles
http://washingtontimes.com/entertainment/20040204-100203-3152r.htm
Charles and Camilla are among the invitees to Duran Duran's post-Brit Awards bash
http://www.hellomagazine.com/music/2004/02/03/charlesandcamilla/
Sing Blue Silver and Arena DVD Update
DURAN DURAN will release their two epic live films 'Sing Blue Silver' and 'Arena' on DVD on April 5th. Both releases feature bonus material. 'Arena' comes in two parts 'Arena', the band's fantasy film woven around a concert in California's Oakland Stadium comes with 'The Making Of Arena' featuring behind the scenes footage and interviews with the cast and crew and will be packaged in a clamshell box complete with poster-booklet and a sticker sheet. 'Sing Blue Silver' was filmed on Duran's 1984 US tour and was filmed over 79 days. See THIS WEEK'S NEWS on the website http://www.remembertheeighties.com for the full tracklisting of both DVDs.
USA Today Superbowl article
http://www.geocities.com/durangyrl/article.html
Goldfrapp
are to support Duran Duran on their UK comeback tour
The electronic duo have been confirmed as the opening act on nine of the
dates, reports NME.com.
The dates Goldfrapp will be appearing at are:
Nottingham Arena (April 11)
London Wembley Arena (13-14)
Glasgow SECC (15)
Manchester Evening News Arena (17, 21)
Birmingham NEC (18-19)
Newcastle Arena (22).
Goldfrapp release a new single, Black Cherry, the third track to be lifted
from the album of the same name, on March 1.
Duran Duran to perform at the FIFA 100 Charity Auction & Tribute Ceremony
http://www.fifa.com/en/display/mrel,74029.html
Zurich, 29 January 2004 -As part of its
Centennial commemorations, FIFA and Duet will be organising the FIFA 100
Charity Auction & Tribute Ceremony at the Natural History Museum in London
on 4 March.
This prestigious awards dinner will celebrate “The FIFA 100” - the one
hundred greatest living players chosen by Pelé and approved by FIFA for the
100th anniversary of world football’s governing body. All the players chosen
for “The FIFA 100” will be announced at the event and presented with a
recognition award by FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter and Pelé. The evening
will commence with a charity auction organised by Christie’s, with the
proceeds to be dedicated to the FIFA Goal Programme – which currently
supports 160 football infrastructure projects around the world – and guests
will be entertained by a live performance from Duran Duran.
Duran Duran to perform at the NFL Tailgate Party at Superbowl XXXVIII on Sunday, February 1st (confirmed on www.duranduran.com)
New York, NY-- Duran Duran, who wrapped up 2003 with a highly successful
Australian tour that included four stadium shows with Robbie Williams, and
who have sold more than 100,000 tickets for their UK April arena tour over
the holidays, have today announced a new US concert date: the NFL Tailgate
Party at the Superbowl XXXVIII in Houston, TX on Sunday, February 1st. This
show, which will take place at the Reliant Center, will follow the band's
sold out performance at San Antonio's Laurie Auditorium two days earlier -
this Friday, January 30th. One song from their Super Bowl pre-game
performance will air live on CBS's television broadcast of the event
sometime between 2:30 pm and 3:00 pm Central Time.
Both dates in Texas this weekend will give audiences a preview of the band's
world tour, scheduled to begin in April, 2004 in the UK. A new studio album
is also expected later this year.
Duran Duran celebrated their 25th anniversary and the reunion of the five
founding band members in 2003 with a run of tremendously successful shows
in the US, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. They were also honored with
Lifetime Achievement Awards last year from both MTV and Q Magazine. Later
next month they will accept the Outstanding Contribution to Music Award in
the UK at February's Brits ceremony.
Queer Eye For The Straight Guy Soundtrack
You can hear the fab remix
of Sunrise which will be on the Queer Eye For The Straight Guy Soundtrack
here:
http://www.queereyemusic.com/
Direct link:
http://boss.streamos.com/real/capi001/queereye/audio/qe_duranduran_sunrise_56.ram
SYN article
http://www.time.com/time/europe/tga/article/0,13005,901040119-574972,00.html
From the Sun (UK)
"Duran Duran plan a top-secret Brits aftershow party to celebrate winning the Outstanding Contribution gong at the Feb 17 ceremony. An insider said: "It'll be the best party of the night."
Eclectic Line-Up of Talent to Perform At the 2004 BRIT Awards
Eclectic Line-Up
of Talent to Perform At the 2004 BRIT Awards
with MasterCard as 2004 nominations are announced.
The Darkness, Blackeyed Peas, Busted, Dido, Muse, 50 Cent, and Duran Duran
head up list of performances.
The most anticipated music event in the UK calendar is almost upon us, and it’s set to be a rocking year celebrating the best in Pop, Rock, Dance and Urban Music. Unveiled today the full list of Nominations and the first batch of artists confirmed to perform live at The 2004 BRIT Awards with MasterCard at Earls Court, London. The show will be broadcast ‘as live’ on ITV1 on 17 February 2004 in the UK and seen in over 30 countries world wide..............................
As previously announced, DURAN
DURAN will be honoured by the BPI with The 2004 BRIT Awards Outstanding
Contribution to Music Award. The band have sold over 70 million records
during a career spanning over 25 years, and made their first UK performance
in 13 years with the original line up of Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes, John
Taylor, Andy Taylor and Roger Taylor, at the London Forum in October 2003.
To read the rest of the article go here:
www.brits.co.uk
Brad Pitt
Indulges Jennifer Aniston's Duran Duran Fantasy
http://www.teenhollywood.com/d.asp?r=56569&cat=1056
Movie hunk Brad Pitt
treated wife Jennifer Aniston to her ultimate fantasy at a recent party - by
dressing as Duran Duran heart-throb Simon Le Bon. The Fight Club actor threw
the fancy dress bash last week to mark his birthday, and even sang a karaoke
version of the eighties band's hit Wild Boys.
And Friends star Jennifer - who dressed up as Helen of Troy in tribute to
Brad's latest film Troy - was overjoyed.
An insider says, "When Jen saw Brad dressed as Simon Le Bon in full eighties
gear, her eyes were on stalks. She didn't stop smiling all night.
"When he sang Duran Duran to Jen on the karaoke machine it was the icing on
the cake for her.
"Simon Le Bon was her first crush and Brad made her dreams come true. Jen
couldn't believe he'd gone to so much effort for her when it was his
party."
Read another article here: Brad's A Real Wild Boy
Simon
flew an Australian Fighter Jet while in Sydney
(from
duranduran.com)
"While in Sydney I went out to Bankstown airport and was
taken up in this Czech built Aero L-39 Albatros, jet fighter/trainer
aircraft. Australian Top Gun pilot Mark Scott put me through aerobatic
barrel rolls, steep climb and cloud chasing at times pulling 4.5 Gs. Then it
was my turn to take the joystick..wow! Don't worry the in cockpit vidcam
captured all the thrills and any embarrassing moments in their entirety.
Check out the plane at:
http://www.topgunflights.com.au/index2.htm
THAT put the whoosh in
whooshman - s"
Click here for even more pictures
Duran Duran Arrive in New Zealand
There's video of the band
arriving in New Zealand at this link:
http://onenews.nzoom.com/
Click "Duran Duran arrives in NZ (01:40)"
Read a review of the bands arrival by a fan here:
A review of the bands arrival by a fan:
A review of the bands
arrival by a fan:
http://www.duranduran.com/bboard/duranduran/82618_flat.html
From
TigerHarlow atDD.com MB
http://www.duranduran.com/bboard/duranduran/82080_flat.html
DD to play SuperBowl Tailgate Party!!!
It's Official!
I heard Andy last night on a Phoenix radio staion (96.9) say that DD will be
playing the SuperBowl Tailgate Party!!! He also mentioned Australia, then
having Christmas off, then playing India (I THINK he said India?), then some
UK dates, then the CD will come out & then back to the U.S.!
I guess that's the SuperBowl Pre-show so hopefully it will be televised!
Phoenix show was amazing with the stage turning & doing a 360! Very cool!
http://www.nme.com/news/106850.htm
BRIT'S OUT FOR DURAN DURAN!
DURAN DURAN are to be given an OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION gong at next year's
BRIT AWARDS.
Following a year that's seen the 80s cred-pop veterans stage a triumphant
reunion and begin work on new material, they will be awarded the 'golden
oldie' gong at the music industry awards on February 17, 2004.
Peter Jamieson, Chairman of the Brits committee, said: "The UK music
industry, represented by the BPI, is proud to add Duran Duran to the
'Outstanding Contribution' roll of honour. Whilst this award recognises
past achievements which are much deserved, I am just as excited about the
band's vibrancy today which augurs well for continued success."
Previous recipients of the Outstanding Contribution To Music award include
Tom Jones, Sting, U2 and Eurythmics.
Nominations for the Brit Awards 2004 will be announced on January 12.
Simon in Blender magazine....
