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Duran Duran: We’re Big Boys Now

Interview by Steve Turner, Company, 1988

Simon Le Bon doesn’t look like a teen idol on this particular day. A T-shirt flaps around the top of loose black trousers, his hair ...

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Duran Duran: Just Fine And Dandy

Interview by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 31 January 1981

THE NAME of Birmingham group Duran Duran has no connection with Japanese covers of Chiffons songs. ...

Duran Duran: Sundown Club, London

Live Review by Betty Page, Sounds, 21 March 1981

Duranosaurus rocks ...

Duran Duran: This Is Planet Mirth

Interview by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 13 June 1981

Dave McCullough gets jolly with Duran Duran ...

Duran Duran: Duran Duran (EMI)

Review by Chris Bohn, New Musical Express, 4 July 1981

D'RONE D'RONE ...

Duran Duran: Ice Cream the Body Electric!

Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 25 July 1981

Teenybop takes a trite turn for the better. Paul Morley compares socks with DURAN DURAN ...

Duran Duran: Duran Duran (Harvest ST12158)

Review by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, September 1981

BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND'S Duran Duran, yet another entrant in the let's-play-synth-disco-with-silly-costumes chart sweepstakes, had a recent hit with a wretchedly tedious piece of routine ass-wag called ...

In New York New York With Duran Duran

Interview by Mike Stand, Smash Hits, 15 October 1981

So good they named 'em twice. Postcard from Mike Stand. ...

Duran Duran: Rum Runner, Birmingham

Live Review by Chas de Whalley, Record Mirror, 12 December 1981

THERE WASN'T a lot to see, for a start. When Duran Duran returned to their old stamping ground in Birmingham's trendy but tiny Rum Runner ...

Duran Duran: Heroes on Helium

Report and Interview by Chas de Whalley, Record Mirror, 19 December 1981

DURAN DURAN find life a gas in more ways than one. Eternally intrepid CHAS DE WHALLEY takes it all with a pinch of salt (or ...

Duran Duran/Talk Talk: Hammersmith Odeon, London

Live Review by Neil Tennant, Smash Hits, 7 January 1982

A LOT OF headbands and scarves in the audience tonight: red silk scarves tied around bushy barnets; thin chiffon numbers screwed round youthful necks; Palestinian ...

Duran Duran: Rio (EMI EMC 3411)

Review by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 15 May 1982

Don't take me to the Mardi Gras ...

Duran Duran: From Brags To Riches

Interview by Betty Page, Sounds, 29 May 1982

ONCE UPON a time, five fresh-faced boys based in Brum summoned a cynical hackette to witness the emergence of a certain indefinable sort of big-bam-glam-electro-rock ...

Duran Duran: On A Wing And A Prayer

Report and Interview by Ian Birch, Smash Hits, 19 August 1982

Duran Duran stop over in California and find they have to get out and push. Words: Ian Birch. ...

Duran Duran: World Domination By 1984

Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 11 September 1982

THEIR AMBITION – Simon's least, and in all probability the rest of them – is to one day become Bryan Ferry. They didn't say that ...

Duran Duran: Hammersmith Odeon, London

Live Review by Mick Sinclair, Sounds, 13 November 1982

Ghouls on film ...

Duran Duran: OH! You Pretty Things From Planet Earth

Interview by Toby Goldstein, Creem, January 1983

WE JOURNALISTS like to believe our opinions are graven in stone. Let's face it, in the global scheme of things, the relative power of a ...

Duran Duran Q&A

Interview by Ian Birch, Smash Hits, 17 March 1983

They came by the lorryload.Thanks to you, we got the biggest response ever to a Question and Answer feature. We plucked out the best and ...

The Man From D.U.R.A.N. D.U.R.A.N.

Interview by Annene Kaye, Creem, July 1983

WOOF WOOF ...

Duran Duran, Robert Palmer, Prince Charles & The City Beat Band: Villa Park, Birmingham

Live Review by Paul Sexton, Record Mirror, 30 July 1983

A whisper to a scream ...

Duran Duran: That Was The Week That Was

Report and Interview by Neil Tennant, Smash Hits, 4 August 1983

The week when Duran Duran got mobbed, met the Royals and hit the headlines every time they moved. Neil Tennant was never far behind them. ...

Duran Duran: Life In The Land Down Under

Report and Interview by Dave Rimmer, Smash Hits, 24 November 1983

Duran Duran have just got back from three months in Australia. Before they left, Dave Rimmer flew out to join them. ...

Duran Duran: Apollo, Manchester

Live Review by Max Bell, The Times, 8 December 1983

Trapped in idolatry ...

Duran Duran: A Public Figure

Interview by Neil Tennant, Smash Hits, 19 January 1984

Two people are having lunch in Paris. One of them is a tax exile who owns an Aston Martin sports car, is permanently pursued by ...

Duran Duran: Simon Le Bon

Interview by Fiona Russell Powell, The Face, February 1984

IT'S THE day before Christmas Eve and I'm on my way to The Savoy hotel, 15 minutes late already for my interview with Simon Le ...

Duran Duran: Am What They Yam: And That's The Snakes…

Interview by Chris Salewicz, Creem, April 1984

THE BELLIGERENT, black North Sea crashes with a grim rhythm in the opposite side of the main road to Brighton's Grand Hotel. Its force, however, ...

Duran Duran: Arena (Parlophone)

Review by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 17 November 1984

AND THE APHIDS CRIED/THROUGH THE DRIFTING HAZE/"NAFF LP, LADS!" ...

Warhol: The Face Interview

Interview by Fiona Russell Powell, The Face, March 1985

"I HAVE NOTHING to say — read my books" is Andy Warhol's standard riposte to most would-be interviewers. David Yarritu — a former assistant of ...

The Ups and Downs of Stephen "Tin Tin" Duffy

Interview by William Shaw, Smash Hits, 14 March 1985

That's the title of his new LP. Fitting, really, for a bloke who was once the singer in Duran Duran and then written off as ...

Frankie Goes To Hollywood: Swiss Franks

Report and Interview by Helen Fitzgerald, Melody Maker, 25 May 1985

Finally, FRANKIE relaxed and invited Helen FitzGerald to chase them round picturesque Montreux. So what did happen in that brothel in Frankfurt? What do Frankie ...

Style Counsel

Report and Interview by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 2 September 1985

ADAM SWEETING investigates the selling of a pop star package ...

Duran Duran: The Pop Dream Come True

Report and Interview by Dave Rimmer, The Face, December 1985

NIGHT SETTLES ON The Palace Hotel, Philadelphia, like a sigh of relief. All the acts have finished all their frantic, last minute preparations for Live ...

Nile Rodgers: Man of the Moment

Interview by Adam Sweeting, Melody Maker, 4 October 1986

Buddies with Bowie, big pals with Duran, mate of Al Jarreau, is there no-one NILE RODGERS doesn't know? Adam Sweeting charts the changing life and ...

How To Make A Pop LP Called Notorious

Interview by Tom Hibbert, Smash Hits, 17 December 1986

PART ONE: NOTORIOUS In which the three members of Duran Duran talk "openly" and "frankly" (and "incomprehensibly") about the creation of their latest "waxing". Moroccan interview: ...

The Montreux Pop Festival

Report and Interview by William Shaw, Smash Hits, 3 June 1987

What are Curiosity Killed The Cat, Boy George, Whitney Houston, Beastie Boys, A-ha and three squillion other pop stars doing in a little town in ...

Duran Duran: Liberty

Review by Michele Kirsch, Select, September 1990

DURAN DURAN, like most early '80s hygienic post-punk pop, played alongside current chart hits has you yearning for stuff you hated first time round. Compare ...

Duran Duran: The Wedding Album

Review by Chas de Whalley, Vox, April 1993

NEARLY 12 YEARS ON, and Messrs Le Bon, Taylor and Rhodes are still peddling the same kind of prosaic pop which was their calling card ...

Duran Duran: Ordinary People

Interview by David A. Keeps, Details, April 1993

Duran Duran spent one half of the '80s as international pop playboys and the other half surviving the experience. Will success spoil them again? David ...

Duran Duran: The Amazing Lazarus Brothers

Profile and Interview by Mat Snow, Q, September 1993

"I MASTURBATE to Duran Duran videos," announced Andy Warhol in his twilight days. Should one's speculations incline in that direction, one wonders whether the peroxide-periwigged ...

Top Of The Pops and The '80s Brit Pop Boom

Overview by Stuart Maconie, Q, November 1994

YOU CAN tell if they're boys or girls these days, that's the trouble. Just look at them, these so-called modern pop phenomena. ...

Eyewitness: Simon Le Bon sinks aboard Drum England

Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Q, June 1998

WITNESS: Various DATE: 11 August 1985 LOCATION: Two miles off the Cornish coast. ...

Duran Duran: Pop Trash

Review by Amy Linden, People, 10 July 2000

THEY'RE OLD ENOUGH to have fathered some of the boys in the bands now laying claim to the charts they once ruled, but Duran Duran ...

Duran Duran: 'Hungry Like the Wolf'

Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Blender, 2003

VITAL STATISTICS:SONG: Hungry Like the WolfARTIST: Duran DuranLABEL: EMI-Harvest/Capitol ...

Duran Duran: The Singles 81-85

Review by Daryl Easlea, Record Collector, May 2003

DURAN DURAN were, of course, the original band who wanted to combine the Sex Pistols with Chic. Taking their name from a character in the ...

Duran Duran: Old Romantics

Retrospective and Interview by Ian Watson, The Evening Standard, 8 April 2004

At their mid-'80s peak Duran Duran had it all — the glamour, the girls, the money. Now, 20 years on they're back. And all they ...

Duran Duran: The Old Romantics

Profile and Interview by Robert Sandall, The Independent, 17 September 2004

IN A POP WORLD full of ageing Peter Pans with expensive habits to service, ex-wives to maintain and children to educate, attempted comebacks are common, ...

How I Discovered Duran Duran. Or Did They Discover Me?

Memoir by Beverley Glick, beverleyglick.com, 2005

In the third extract from my memoir Hit Girl: My Bizarre Double Life in the Pop World of the Eighties, I tell the story of my ...

The Day I discussed the meaning of life with Simon Le Bon

Memoir by Beverley Glick, Rock's Backpages, 13 April 2012

MY RELATIONSHIP with Simon Le Bon began back in December 1980, when I was a rookie writer for Sounds and visited the Rum Runner club ...

Duran Duran, Stereophonics, Paolo Nutini, Snow Patrol: Olympic Concert, Hyde Park, London

Live Review by Nick Hasted, The Independent, 28 July 2012

Snow Patrol, Simon Le Bon and Ricky Gervais's beard strike a chord ...

Looking Back to Planet Earth and Beyond: Five Decades of Duran Duran

Retrospective and Interview by Wyndham Wallace, Classic Pop, December 2012

Please, please tell me now! As John Taylor publishes his autobiography, In The Pleasure Groove: Love, Death & Duran Duran, Wyndham Wallace accompanies him through ...

A World Of Dreaded Fear: Band Aid's Unforgivable Crimes

Retrospective by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 10 December 2013

Band Aid raised awareness of a disastrous famine, as well as huge sums of money to try ease it. But, one year ahead of its ...

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see also Stephen "Tin Tin" Duffy

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