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Duran Duran dominated the early 80’s world of music videos and MTV with a sound the band described as the Sex Pistols meet Chic. A string of Pop Top 10 hits put the band at the top of New Wave artists that stormed the U.S. charts prior to 1985. While maintaining some popularity in clubs, Duran Duran’s early hits were not nearly as popular as Dance cuts as they were on the Pop charts. In the second half of the 80’s the band ventured furtherinto the realm of club music and were rewarded with a pair of #1 Dance hits. As the decade ended, much of their popularity faded and the band was torn apart by personnel issues. In 1992 the band returned to the top of the charts with mellow, ballad hits such as Ordinary World. Recent releases have ranged from the Electro-Pop of Electric Barbarella to the Top 10 Dance hit remake of Grandmaster Flash’s White Lines. Currently the band is gearingup for the fall 2004 release of the first recordings by the original membership of Duran Duran in 20 years.
With inspiration primarily from Roxy Music and David Bowie, Nick Rhodes and John Taylor put Duran Duran together in 1978 with Simon Colley and Stephen Duffy. The name Duran Duran comes from the name of a villain in the Jane Fonda film Barbarella. Also, the name of one of the clubs where the group played early gigs was Barbarella’s. Within a year both Colley and Duffy left the group, and, after a number of other personnel changes, Roger Taylor and Andy Taylor were added. The final piece fell intoplace when vocalist Simon Le Bon joined the group in early 1980. By the end of 1980 the group was popular among the New Romantic movement in England. They secured a recording contract with EMI and entered the studio to begin work on their first album.
Duran Duran’s first single release Girls On Film in spring 1981 landed in the Top 10 on the heels of a controversial extended video created for the song by Godley and Creme. Like many other New Wave bands, Duran Duran’s first extensive exposure to American audiences came in Dance clubs. Girls On Film coupled with Planet Earth landed in the Top 30 of the U.S. Dance charts as an import in 1981. The first album Duran Duran was released in the UK by the end of 1981 and landed in the Top 3 of the charts. 1982 was a big year for Duran Duran at home as the album Rio was released, but the group made little headway in the U.S. outside of Dance clubs until MTV put Duran Duran’s exotic music videos into heavy rotation in 1983. A string of major Pop Top 10 hits followed such as Hungry Like the Wolf, Is There Something I Should Know?, Union Of the Snake, and the band’s biggest hit The Reflex. All of these also reached the Dance charts but failed to approach the Top 10.
In 1985 the members of Duran Duran embarked on the outside projects Arcadia and the Power Station scoring some success. By 1986, Roger Taylor left the group, and after some recording, Andy Taylor left as well. With the group pared down to a trio, the album Notorious was released late in the year. Featuring co-production work from Chic’s Nile Rodgers, the single Notorious reached the Top 30 of the Dance chart. The next Duran Duran album Big Thing appeared in 1988 among fading Pop fortunes. However, the album’s first 2 singles I Don’t Want Your Love and All She Wants Is, sporting remixes by Shep Pettibone, finally landed Duran Duran their first 2 #1 Dance singles.
This Dance success did not last long as the band retreated into Adult Contemporary Pop in the early 90’s scoring two of their biggest Pop hits in the U.S. with Ordinary World and Come Undon. In 1995 the band proved they could still pull audiences to the dancefloor on their Top 5 Dance remake of White Lines for which they were joined by the original recording artist Grandmaster Flash. Since 1995 Duran Duran has released only 2 studio albums, Medazzaland and Pop Trash. Neither of these reached significant commercial success, and by the time of Pop Trash only Simon LeBon and Nick Rhodes remained from the early 80’s group. This makes the 2004 return of the group even more remarkable. With the fall 2004 release of a new album titled Astronaut, all 5 members of the early 80’s version of Duran Duran have returned.
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