![]() That said: Duran Duran to me is not only about the hitsingles that everyone knows, loves or hates. I grew up with the band and I felt proud that this band I ‘discovered’ very early on started to become big in my own country a few years later. ![]() The first thing I did when we were back home was buying the album myself. I got Heidi to make me a copy on cassette that I listened to the rest of the vacation. That afternoon I heard their debut album for the first time and I liked what I heard, not only was that track from the radio on it, but it contained even better songs, heavier, melancholic, uplifting, sferic…From that moment on I was hooked. ![]() Immediately she started smiling and invited me into her house “You gotta listen to this, It’s a new band from Birmingham and their debut album is great, that song you heard all day is “girls on film” its their latest single and its going to be huge” Suddenly, Heidi asked me what music I liked these days and I told her I heard this great tune on the radio all day long and started humming/singing it to her from what I’ve remembered. My ability to talk English was still very premature but talking and socializing with the local kids helped to improve it every year. She was 3 years older then me and she was really into music and liked to talk about it. I was soon to find out more… as later in the day I found myself talking to the neighbours daughter Heidi. I did not know who sang it, where they were from, I simply liked it a lot. There was one song that was played regularly during that long ride and it got really stuck in my ear. I was only 10 when we visited the UK again in the summer of 1981 and my dad used to like to listen to the local UK radiostations while driving the M1 up North to Chorley, near Manchester. In the late 70’s, early 80s, my parents became really good friends with some families in the UK and therefore our family summervacation usually ended up visiting them and the UK every year on from 1979. ![]() I thought that was crap as I was an early adapter to the band. It was mainstream to like Duran Duran and therefore NOT done. I personally loved them and wasn’t afraid to say so amongst my 80’s friends and schoolmates that were heavily into New Wave, PostPunk and Heavy Metal. At least that was how it was in 80’s and probably still so for a lot of people. The band even hurl in their oft-ridiculed cover of Melle Mel’s White Lines (Don’t Do It) – the “just say no” of middle-aged white rock groups doing rap – and send it so far over the top that it brings the house down.Duran Duran, You Love em or you hate em. Friends of Mine, from their debut, is the great DD single that never was: deeply New Romantic and electronic but with a chorus as big as any of them.Īs the frontman observes, 1993’s sublime Ordinary World “takes on a new relevance” with the pandemic (“I won’t cry for yesterday, there’s an ordinary world, somehow I have to find”), and its crowd singalong makes for a real goosebump moment.Ģ004’s (Reach Up for the) Sunrise raises everybody’s arms accordingly. Otherwise, Planet Earth takes the roof off and View to a Kill brings a Bond theme to a small room in Birmingham, but the career-spanning setlist delves deeper than those copper-bottomed 80s hits. Le Bon challenges the audience to sing Tonight United even though it was only aired for the first time the night before, and they do. Anniversary marries a bassline similar to Frankie’s Two Tribes to a trademark Duran chorus. Photograph: Jason Sheldon/REX/Shutterstock Le Bon, Taylor and touring/studio guitarist Dominic Brown.
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