Duran Duran

Simon Works with Isabelle Adjani

KatyK — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:27:56 +0000

“This past week I recorded a vocal on an Isabelle Adjani duets project. I was very pleased to hear she’d though of me for this collaboration, and was interested right away.

The project is a “concept” album about the cycle of a love relationship, from one break up to another. There are many male guest vocals on this album, so I was in good company as other participants included Peter Murphy from Bauhaus, David Sylvian from Japan, Youssou N’Dour, Seal and Christophe. The project is being produced by Pascal Obispo, who is a major star in France as well.

I flew to Lè Cap Ferret and stayed at Pascal’s beautiful home. We spent a full day in the studio capturing the vocal for the song “C’est Lui (It’s Him).” All of the guest vocals are angels inside the head of the protagonist (Isabelle), who speak to her though out different situations. It’s a very clever idea and I am excited to hear the entire finished product.”

Roger Taylor DJ’s in Italy

KatyK — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:10:09 +0000

Roger and Jake bring their DJ skils back to Italy with a confirmed date on August 12th at the Country Club, Portorondo, Sardinia – if you’re in town, it is a must-see event!

2nd Simon Reader Audio Posted

KatyK — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:07:29 +0000

Click below to hear an audio Simon’s Reader, as he reads a new passage from Rob Sheffield’s new novel “Talking to Girls About Duran Duran. One Young Man’s Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut “:

Simon’s Reader

Ana Matronic Records with Duran Duran!

KatyK — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:02:20 +0000

Scissor Sister Ana Matronic came by the Studio last week to work with the band on a track from their 13th studio album. Says Nick: “It is almost impossible for me to explain just how much I adore Ana Matronic. This past Thursday, she came in all her fabulousness to our studio in London and performed a rather exquisite vocal cameo on a song called “Safe” from the forthcoming Duran Duran album. Needless to say, it’s already one of my favorite moments on the entire record. Can’t wait to do the video…” Nick Rhodes

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Live Aid, 25 Years Later

KatyK — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:22:38 +0000

By the time I was 13 I became obsessed with becoming a professional bass player … thanks to JT and endless hours of playing along with DD records after school, all these years later and I am still making a living doing it! I remember when DD were set to be on Live Aid … I had my Aria Pro bass
out and the VCR ready to hit ‘record’ as soon as they were announced. As I excitedly with childish innocence played along and pretended I was in DD playing really LIVE I remember JT’s bass cutting out halfway through “Union” and being HEARTBROKEN!! Going back now and looking at clips I noticed it kept happening throughout the Live Aid gig. Was just wondering what John’s recollections were of his Amp crapping out while on such a huge gig!! Eric

“Hmm, the media has reminded us it has been 25 years… I honestly don’t remember specifically the bass cutting out. The performances were fraught with technical problems, that I do remember. Andy’s guitar went down before the Power Station set which meant we had to cut a number. It wasn’t easy! JT”

DD Song Snippet on East Village Radio

KatyK — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 01:50:14 +0000

Mark Ronson was the first to debut 30 seconds of Duran Duran’s “Blame the Machine” on his East Village Radio show. Listen to the clip below!

Duran Duran – Blame the Machine (clip from Mark Ronson)

Courtesy http://www.eastvillageradio.com/

Nick Rhodes & MNDR

KatyK — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:25:59 +0000

Nick Rhodes & MNDR can’t seem to get enough of each other. They are both featured on Mark Ronson’s new album Record Collection, performed with him in London at Lovebox last weekend & were interviewed for Dazed & Confused’s October issue earlier this week. Be on the lookout for it when it hits stands on September!

DURAN DURAN: 2-CD/DVD & Vinyl Limited Special Edition Releases Of ‘Notorious’ and ‘Big Thing’

KatyK — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:50:49 +0000

Release date: 27th/28th September 2010

Following the reissues earlier this year of Duran Duran’s eponymous debut and ‘Seven and The Ragged Tiger’ albums, EMI is pleased to announce the release of 2-CD/DVD Limited Special Editions of the band’s hugely influential fourth and fifth albums, ‘Notorious’ and ‘Big Thing’.

Originally released in 1986, ‘Notorious’ was produced by Nile Rodgers and saw the band boldly move away from their foray into Euro-dance-pop and made a more heavily funk-infused album. Nowhere is this shown more than in the UK Top 10 title track, which proved an influence on the next generation, particularly the US hip hop community, where it was sampled for Biggie Smalls’ ‘Notorious’.

Disc one of this Ltd. Special Edition includes the original album plus single remixes. CD2 is a bonus album with seven mixes and the ‘Duran Goes Dutch’ EP recorded at the Ahoy, Rotterdam, 7 May 1987. The DVD, Working For The Skin Trade live show, was filmed during the Strange Behaviour Tour in Rio De Janeiro, ’87 – ’88. Plus the official videos for Notorious, Skin Trade and Meet El Presidente, and a live TOTP’s performance of Notorious from November ’86.

Recorded at Devout Studios, Paris 1988 & co-produced by Jonathan Elias & Daniel Abraham, the multi-platinum selling ‘Big Thing’ was originally released in 1988. The band changed direction again, to a more synth and bass-heavy sound, creating a transitional album that tapped into the emerging rave culture and creating, what’s referred to by many, as their ‘house’ album. This is shown in the title track and first single ‘I Don’t Want Your Love’ and second single, ‘All She Wants Is’. Beyond the obvious house influences, the band made a diverse album which also included a number of tracks with lush arrangements. The album’s cover art was designed by Swiss illustrator and artist Hans Arnold.

Disc one restores the album to what the band originally wanted, with the inclusion of the original mix of ‘Drug (It’s Just A State Of Mind)’, rather than the remix that made the final album (this version has only ever been released in this form once before – on a Japanese CD reissue). The bonus album features the singles, b-sides and mixes, plus the remix album version of ‘Drug (It’s Just A State Of Mind)’. The Special Edition DVD is Big Thing live in Palatrussardi, Milan, Italy, 12th December 1988,
plus the videos ‘I Don’t Want Your Love’, ‘All She Wants Is’ and ‘Do You Believe In Shame?’.

Both the limited edition releases will be clamshell packaged in lift-off-lid boxes (the same packaging as the recently acclaimed Radiohead reissues), and include an eight-page booklet, five postcards and a folded poster. Both albums will also be available as 2-CD digi-pack editions.

There will also be limited, one-off 180g heavyweight double-vinyl releases of each album which, as well as the original album, will also include a selection of remixes (see below).

‘Notorious’ tracklistings:

CD 1
1. Notorious (2010 Digital Remaster)
2. American Science (2010 Digital Remaster)
3. Skin Trade (2010 Digital Remaster)
4. A Matter Of Feeling (2010 Digital Remaster)
5. Hold Me (2010 Digital Remaster)
6. Vertigo (Do The Demolition) (2010 Digital Remaster)
7. So Misled (2010 Digital Remaster)
8. Meet El Presidente (2010 Digital Remaster)
9. Winter Marches On (2010 Digital Remaster)
10. Proposition (2010 Digital Remaster)
11. We Need You (2010 Digital Remaster)
12. Notorious (45 Mix) (2010 Digital Remaster)
13. Skin Trade (Radio Cut) (2010 Digital Remaster)
14. Meet El Presidente (7″ Remix) (2010 Digital Remaster)

CD 2
1. Notorious (Extended Mix) (2010 Digital Remaster)
2. Meet El Presidente (Presidential Suite Mix) (2010 Digital Remaster)
3. Skin Trade (Parisian Mix) (2010 Digital Remaster)
4. American Science (Chemical Reaction Mix) (2010 Digital Remaster)
5. Vertigo (Do The Demolition) (Mantronix Mix) (2010 Digital Remaster)
6. Skin Trade (Stretch Mix) (2010 Digital Remaster)
7. Notoriousaurus Rex (2010 Digital Remaster)
8. Notorious (Live) (2010 Digital Remaster)
9. Vertigo (Do The Demolition) (Live) (2010 Digital Remaster)
10. New Religion (Live) (2010 Digital Remaster)
11. American Science (Live) (2010 Digital Remaster)
12. Hungry Like The Wolf (Live) (2010 Digital Remaster)

DVD
1. Intro (Strange Behaviour Tour) (2010 Digital Remaster)
2. A View To A Kill (Strange Behaviour Tour) (2010 Digital Remaster)
3. Notorious (Strange Behaviour Tour) (2010 Digital Remaster)
4. New Religion (Strange Behaviour Tour) (2010 Digital Remaster)
5. Vertigo (Strange Behaviour Tour) (2010 Digital Remaster)
6. The Chauffeur (Strange Behaviour Tour) (2010 Digital Remaster)
7. Save A Prayer (Strange Behaviour Tour) (2010 Digital Remaster)
8. Skin Trade (Strange Behaviour Tour) (2010 Digital Remaster)
9. Hungry Like The Wolf (Strange Behaviour Tour) (2010 Digital Remaster)
10. Wild Boys (Strange Behaviour Tour) (2010 Digital Remaster)
11. Outro (Strange Behaviour Tour) (2010 Digital Remaster)
12. Notorious
13. Skin Trade
14. Meet El Presidente
15. Notorious (Top Of The Pops)

Vinyl Album

Side 1
1. Notorious (2010 Digital Remaster)
2. American Science (2010 Digital Remaster)
3. Skin Trade (2010 Digital Remaster)
4. A Matter Of Feeling (2010 Digital Remaster)
5. Hold Me (2010 Digital Remaster)

Side 2
1. Vertigo (Do The Demolition) (2010 Digital Remaster)
2. So Misled (2010 Digital Remaster)
3. Meet El Presidente (2010 Digital Remaster)
4. Winter Marches On (2010 Digital Remaster)
5. Proposition (2010 Digital Remaster)

Side 3
1. American Science (Chemical Reaction Mix) (2010 Digital Remaster)
2. Vertigo (Do The Demolition) (Mantronix Mix) (2010 Digital Remaster)
3. Skin Trade (Parisian Mix) (2010 Digital Remaster)

Side 4
1. American Science (Meltdown Dub) (2010 Digital Remaster)
2. Vertigo (Do The Demolition) (B-boy Mix) (2010 Digital Remaster)
3. Notoriousaurus Rex (2010 Digital Remaster)

‘Big Thing’ tracklistings:

CD 1
1. Big Thing (2010 Digital Remaster)
2. I Don’t Want Your Love (2010 Digital Remaster)
3. All She Wants Is (2010 Digital Remaster)
4. Too Late Marlene (2010 Digital Remaster)
5. Drug (It’s Just A State Of Mind) (Original Mix) (2010 Digital Remaster)
6. Do You Believe In Shame? (2010 Digital Remaster)
7. Palomino (2010 Digital Remaster)
8. Interlude One (2010 Digital Remaster)
9. Land (2010 Digital Remaster)
10. Flute Interlude (2010 Digital Remaster)
11. The Edge Of America (2010 Digital Remaster)
12. Lake Shore Driving (2010 Digital Remaster)

CD 2
1. I Don’t Want Your Love (Shep Pettibone 7” Mix) (2010 Digital Remaster)
2. All She Wants Is (45 Mix) (2010 Digital Remaster)
3. I Believe / All I Need To Know (Full Version) (2010 Digital Remaster)
4. The Krush Brothers LSD Edit (2010 Digital Remaster)
5. Palomino (Edit) (2010 Digital Remaster)
6. God (London) (2010 Digital Remaster)
7. This Is How A Road Gets Made (2010 Digital Remaster)
8. Big Thing (7″ Mix) (2010 Digital Remaster)
9. I Don’t Want Your Love (Big Mix) (2010 Digital Remaster)
10. All She Wants Is (US Master Mix) (2010 Digital Remaster)
11. Drug (It’s Just A State Of Mind) (Remix) (2010 Digital Remaster)
12. Big Thing (12″ Mix) (2010 Digital Remaster)
13. All She Wants Is (Eurohouse Mix) (2010 Digital Remaster)

CD 3
1. Introduction / God (Big Thing Live)
2. Big Thing (Big Thing Live)
3. I Don’t Want Your Love (Big Thing Live)
4. Hungry Like The Wolf (Big Thing Live)
5. Do You Believe In Shame? (Big Thing Live)
6. All She Wants Is / Planet Earth (Big Thing Live)
7. This Is How A Road Gets Made / Winter Marches On (Big Thing Live)
8. Palomino (Big Thing Live)
9. Too Late Marlene (Big Thing Live)
10. Girls On Film (Big Thing Live)
11. Notorious (Big Thing Live)
12. Skin Trade (Big Thing Live)
13. Is There Something I Should Know? (Big Thing Live)
14. The Wild Boys / Drug (Big Thing Live)
15. Band Introduction / Save A Prayer (Big Thing Live)
16. The Reflex (Big Thing Live)
17. Rio (Big Thing Live)
18. The Edge Of America (Big Thing Live)
19. I Don’t Want Your Love
20. All She Wants Is
21. Do You Believe In Shame?

Vinyl Album

Side 1
1. Big Thing (2010 Digital Remaster)
2. I Don’t Want Your Love (2010 Digital Remaster)
3. All She Wants Is (2010 Digital Remaster)
4. Too Late Marlene (2010 Digital Remaster)
5. Drug (It’s Just A State Of Mind) (Original Mix) (2010 Digital Remaster)

Side 2
1. Do You Believe In Shame? (2010 Digital Remaster)
2. Palomino (2010 Digital Remaster)
3. Interlude One (2010 Digital Remaster)
4. Land (2010 Digital Remaster)
5. Flute Interlude (2010 Digital Remaster)
6. The Edge Of America (2010 Digital Remaster)
7. Lake Shore Driving (2010 Digital Remaster)

Side 3
1. I Don’t Want Your Love (Big Mix) (2010 Digital Remaster)
2. All She Wants Is (Eurohouse Mix) (2010 Digital Remaster)

Side 4
1. All She Wants Is (US Master Mix) (2010 Digital Remaster)
2. Big Thing (12″ Mix) (2010 Digital Remaster)

DIGITAL RELEASES
Fans can download two versions of each album: the original and the 2-CD version. Plus additional components for both – details listed below.

‘Notorious’:

Remix EP
1. Skin Trade (S.O.S Dub) (2010 Digital Remaster)
2. Meet El Presidente (Meet El Beat) (2010 Digital Remaster)
3. American Science (Meltdown Dub) (2010 Digital Remaster)
4. Vertigo (Do The Demolition) (B-boy Mix) (2010 Digital Remaster)
5. Notorious (Latin Rascals Mix)

Live at The Beacon Theater, NYC, 31st August 1987
1. Introduction / A View To A Kill (Live At The Beacon Theater)
2. Notorious (Live At The Beacon Theater)
3. American Science (Live At The Beacon Theater)
4. Union Of The Snake (Live At The Beacon Theater)
5. Vertigo (Do The Demolition) (Live At The Beacon Theater)
6. New Religion (Live At The Beacon Theater)
7. Meet El Presidente (Live At The Beacon Theater)
8. Election Day (Live At The Beacon Theater)
9. Some Like It Hot (Live At The Beacon Theater)
10. The Chauffeur (Live At The Beacon Theater)
11. Skin Trade (Live At The Beacon Theater)
12. Hold Me / Dance To The Music (Live At The Beacon Theater)
13. Is There Something I Should Know (Live At The Beacon Theater)
14. Hungry Like The Wolf (Live At The Beacon Theater)

‘Big Thing’:

Dub Mix EP
1. I Don’t Want Your Love (Dub Mix) (2010 Digital Remaster)
2. All She Wants Is (Euro Dub Mix) (2010 Digital Remaster)
3. All She Wants Is (Eurohouse Dub) (2010 Digital Remaster)
4. All She Wants Is (US Master Dub) (2010 Digital Remaster)

BBC In Concert: Manchester Apollo, 25th April 1989
1. Big Thing (BBC In Concert: Live At The Manchester Apollo 25th April 1989)
2. I Don’t Want Your Love (BBC In Concert: Live At The Manchester Apollo 25th April 1989)
3. Hungry Like The Wolf (BBC In Concert: Live At The Manchester Apollo 25th April 1989)
4. Palomino (BBC In Concert: Live At The Manchester Apollo 25th April 1989)
5. Girls On Film (BBC In Concert: Live At The Manchester Apollo 25th April 1989)
6. Notorious (BBC In Concert: Live At The Manchester Apollo 25th April 1989)
7. A View To A Kill (BBC In Concert: Live At The Manchester Apollo 25th April 1989)
8. Skin Trade (BBC In Concert: Live At The Manchester Apollo 25th April 1989)
9. Save A Prayer (BBC In Concert: Live At The Manchester Apollo 25th April 1989)
10. Bang A Gong (Get It On) (BBC In Concert: Live At The Manchester Apollo 25th April 1989)
11. The Reflex (BBC In Concert: Live At The Manchester Apollo 25th April 1989)
12. Rio (BBC In Concert: Live At The Manchester Apollo 25th April 1989)

Five questions: ‘Rolling Stone’ critic Rob Sheffield

KatyK — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:40:27 +0000

Five questions: ‘Rolling Stone’ critic Rob Sheffield

By Korina Lopez, USA TODAY

Rob Sheffield, 44, Rolling Stone music critic and author of Talking to Girls About Duran Duran (Dutton, $25.95), is a living pop-culture encyclopedia. USA TODAY tries to keep up.

1. How are you able to remember the thousands of pop culture, music and literary references that appear in your work?

Everyone’s brains are wired differently. I wish I could remember my college French or guitar chords!

2. Was it hard to open up about the details of your past, like your Catholic devotion, which you’ve kept private?

I’m at the most vulnerable when I write about music, not about the other emotions, even the more painful ones.

3. Why do you love Duran Duran so much?

To me, they held the keys to the secrets of girls. All girls loved Duran Duran, even today. When one of their songs comes on at any bar or club, all the cool girls put their drinks down and head to the dance floor.

4. Three songs that would make your ’80s soundtrack?

Scritti Politti’s Perfect Way. Duran Duran’s Hungry Like the Wolf. Prince’s Little Red Corvette. They sum up what made New Wave in the ’80s — playful, funny and ridiculous.

5. The “cassingle” is a lost treasure. What else do miss about the era?

Mixed tapes. Sharing a mix tape was the ultimate bonding experience.

Summer Sale in the Webshop!

KatyK — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:26:22 +0000

Crewe Issue is offering a “Summer special” sale on Duranduran.com!

There are some wonderful new packages available for a limited time in the webshop, go to the store and click on the SPECIALS section today!

Astronaut package 1 – Astronaut baseball hat, “5 Guitars” mousepad, Astronaut button/badge and Astronaut pop up book tour program!

Astronaut package 2 – “5 guitars” white t-shirt, Astronaut mousepad and Astronautpop up book tour program!

Red Carpet Massacre tour package – RCM tour t-shirt, RCM tour book and RCM keychain!

Tour 2009 package – Black “faces” t-shirt , white “Rio” t-shirt , plus free 2010 Calendar!

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