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Duran Duran (/ dj ʊ ˌ r æ n dj ʊ ˈ r æ n /) are an English pop rock band formed in Birmingham in 1978 by singer Stephen Duffy, keyboardist Nick Rhodes and guitarist/bassist John Taylor. After several early changes, the band's line-up settled in May 1980 as Rhodes, Taylor, singer Simon Le Bon , guitarist Andy Taylor and drummer Roger Taylor .
This line-up performed live for almost a year before Duffy and Colley left the band. Duffy moved on to a solo career and the Lilac Time, and Duran Duran eventually went on to fame with drummer Roger Taylor, guitarist Andy Taylor and singer Simon Le Bon. In 1999, Duffy came across an old tape recording of a live Duran Duran concert from a 1979 show.
Also in 2000, SYN co-executive produced the Duran Duran studio album Pop Trash along with Rhodes' and Cuccurullo's side-venture TV Mania. In October 2005 Dutch trance DJ Ferry Corsten released the track "Fire", with vocals by Le Bon. It was a remix of the lesser known Duran Duran single "Serious", from the studio album Liberty (1990). (full ...
Duran Duran’s Simon Le Bon has said he is “beyond thrilled and surprised” to be made an MBE. The British singer, 65, has become a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the King ...
While Taylor was the guitarist (later switching to bass) and Rhodes played the synthesizer, Duffy was the band's vocalist/lyricist and bassist. When bass player Simon Colley joined, Duffy moved to drums. [3] He left both the school and the band in 1979, before Duran Duran signed with EMI in 1980. [4]
Making Patterns Rhyme is a tribute album devoted to Duran Duran, as well as a charity record to benefit Amnesty International.Among the artists who appear on the album are Moby, Warpaint, Soko, Austra, Luxxury, Carina Round, and Little Dragon.
"Particularly in America, irony isn't a hugely popular thing, so maybe it just went over people's heads and all they saw was naked women," director Kevin Godley says of the controversial clip.
Andrew James Taylor (born 16 February 1961) is an English guitarist, best known as a former member of Duran Duran and the Power Station.He has also recorded and performed as a solo artist, and served as a guitarist, songwriter, and record producer for the likes of Robert Palmer, Rod Stewart, the Almighty, Thunder, Love and Money, Mark Shaw, Then Jerico, C. C. Catch, Paul Rodgers (with the Law ...