Ha! Probably around the age of 16, when I left school and started the band. When did you first start wearing makeup and how did your parents react? Evemitchell Photograph: Koh Hasebe/Shinko Music/Getty Images ‘We were surprised by what happened’ … Duran Duran in Tokyo in 1982. It was great to have an excited audience and we will forever be grateful. Once we got used to it, it was actually very exciting: the noise of the show, the anticipation was incredible. John and I went shopping once and we got mobbed and were stuck inside a store. Then, when we put out records, we could see our audience starting to change. We’d started out as an art-school band, playing these cool underground spots to an avant-garde audience. I never hated our fans, on any level – but we were surprised by what happened. How did it feel to live through the madness of thousands of screaming teenage girls during the peak Duran chart years? Are you grateful for that level of adoration – or did you hate it? Zelbella You can’t ever second-guess what the audience like, but I still feel it’s a stronger song than Notorious.
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We thought we’d release Notorious first, so that Skin Trade could blow everybody away.
When we were doing the Notorious album – funk, Duran Duran-style, with the help of Nile Rodgers – we all felt that Skin Trade was the strongest song. Save a Prayer has been fairly well acknowledged – I’d say Skin Trade, from 1986.
Would you describe Save a Prayer as your most underrated single? If not, then what is? Jay_Murpheus And Dame Shirley: it’s tough to beat her! So I’m proud of it – but our favourites were Diamonds Are Forever and Goldfinger, songs as magnificent as a song can be. It doesn’t use the same Bond chords that everybody seems to integrate into their song – and it is the only Bond song that has ever been No 1. It’s the perfect blend of Duran Duran and James Bond, which is what we set out to do. I can say with my hand on my heart, we’re proud of that one. Would you place A View to a Kill in the top 10 greatest-ever Bond themes? Jay_Murpheus
Billie Eilish is a shining light, Tame Impala made some great records, there are plenty of interesting artists – but I find radio quite difficult. Now there’s a load of great music out there but you have to search for it, and a lot of it sounds the same. We would not have thought of making music any other way. You were proud of the fact that you didn’t sound exactly like somebody else. We were in the charts with bands like the Cure, the Smiths, INXS, Depeche Mode, but then you still had bands like the Rolling Stones and Aerosmith around, and then there was Laurie Anderson, Kraftwerk, and Siouxsie and the Banshees – one of my favourite bands.Įverybody had their own identity. It was a golden period of music, I feel very blessed to have been a kid at that time and been able to start a band. Do you think there are artists coming up now that we’ll still be talking about in 40 years? Or was that period a one-off? Toastylechat The 80s was a golden generation for nurturing that. Photograph: Brian Rasic/Getty Imagesĭuran Duran and others have had incredible longevity. Duran Duran in 1987, with Nick Rhodes on keyboards at the rear.
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