Only Duran Duran could find a way to make it onto my 2010 and 2011 ‘best of’ lists in such a creative way. For the uninformed, All You Need Is Now, the band’s 13th studio album, was released last December as a 9-track digital album with the promise of a physical deluxe edition to follow sometime in 2011. Well, that time has arrived and depending on where you go to get your copy, AYNIN has been expanded to upwards of 17 tracks in […]
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Blerd’s Notes: A Comprehensive Guide to the Music of Duran Duran (Part Two)
In our first installment, we (me, Carlos Halston and Jesse) covered the beginning of Duran Duran’s career, when the Fab Five took over MTV and the world with their catchy (albeit maddeningly indecipherable) songs, their exotic good looks and their cinematic video clips. Thought Nick, Andy, John, Roger and Simon would stay together forever? Wrong! The band temporarily split in 1985, with Simon, Nick and Roger releasing an album as Arcadia while Andy and John recorded and toured as The […]
