On January 22 John is a guest on Richard Blade's SIRIUS Radio show where he announces he will be reading the first chapter of Richard's soon to be released audio book, WORLD IN MY EYES.
Bernie Taupin wrote the lyrics to the single that calls back to the relationship between John and Lennon, with reference to the mountain of flowers that mourners left for John in the wake of his death.
Sisters of mercy etc, they imitate the voice modulation of Elvis and the beat of Beatles, so I'm so lucky or we r lucky that we r teens during the 80s, kids of d 70s and young adult during d 90s'.
The band announce three dates in Mexico: April 8th at Banamex Auditorium in Monterrey, April 10th at Telmex Auditorium in Guadalajara, and April 11th at National Auditorium in Mexico City.
Duran Duran appears on US television shows including The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Today Show Summer Concert Series, The View, and The Craig Kilbourne Show to promote the album.
Although its name has been used in a negative way, to us it's an amazing genre that makes us feel like we're in an episode of Miami Vice wearing shoulder pads and massive sunglasses.
Also to mention Gruppo Sportivo, Patti Smith, The Jam, De Brassers, Siglo XX, The Scabs, Nacht Und Nebel, Jo Lemaire and Flouze, Lavvi Ebel, Red Zebra, Luna Twist, Allez Allez, Marine, The Machines, Toy.
Brilliant Minds is a new thought leadership forum debating the convergence of humanity and technology and John is speaking alongside people like John Sykes, Daniel Ek, Natalia Brzezinski, Dr Mehmet Oz and more.
British magazine The Word included the record as one of pop music's 25 Most Underrated Albums of All Time while NPR Music listed it on their 150 Greatest Albums Made by Women.
The album was a recording of an Elvis Presley concert that contained almost no actual music, and instead consisted mainly of banter and jokes between numbers, compiled in an incomprehensible manner.
The band announce the cancellation of the last five dates of their two year All You Need is Now tour as keyboardist Nick Rhodes becomes ill and is unable to travel.
Nick visits the Park Hyatt Tokyo on a recent trip to one of his favorite cities in the world, sharing some thoughts on the Shinjuku neighborhood and what makes Tokyo such a magical place.
In March, Roger and his DJ partner, Jake Fonique, return to the US to DJ at Cielo in New York City, as well as at Gryphon at the Hard Rock Casino in Hollywood, FL.
Marymoor Amphitheatre in Redmond, WA, July 7th at the Fillmore in San Francisco, July 8th at the Mountain Winery in Saratoga, CA, July 10th at the Pearl in Las Vegas and July 11th at The Pacific Amphitheatre in Orange County.
Le Bon deserves a spot among of the halls of the great frontmen as he stood with his shoulder wide stance, oozing charisma, with a voice which has not faltered in 30 years.
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Pet Sounds may have been a very tight, unified album, but the Beatles managed to work endless styles of music into the mixture and still end up with an album that felt like it really fit together.
On February 3rd, Duran Duran, along with Jason Derullo and Kid Rock, kickoff the NFL Pepsi Super Bowl Fan Jam concert series at the Verizon Theater in Grand Prairie, TX.
Few pop artists have ever been as effortlessly cool; still fewer have managed to create a piece of art that sounds like it could have been crafted thirty years before it was, or thirty years after.
On June 15, the band post all of their upcoming tour dates on their website and unveil the cover of PAPER GODS as well as a new photo from photographer Stephanie Pistel.
Tall Ships Youth Trust creates the opportunity for individuals to undertake even more adventures, opening up valuable chances to learn life skills and set them on a good path in life.
The auction includes two tickets to see the band at the FOLD Festival in Riverhead, NY on August 5 and the opportunity to listen to the forthcoming Duran Duran album in a New York City Studio and meet the band.
That I think was probably the big influence that set me thinking when we recorded Pepper, it set me off on a period I had then for a couple of years of nearly always writing quite melodic bass lines.
Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was amoocow coming down along the road and this moocow that wascoming down along the road met a nicens little boy named babytuckoo.
To help with the cause, Duran Duran encouraged fans to register to vote and sign a petition that will be presented at a General Assembly meeting in North Carolina on April 25.
Roger offers a drum lesson for the great Ormond Street Hospital charity auction; the auction is won by a young fan named Chloe who spent an hour in the studio getting a lesson from Roger.
Flanagan is a TV producer, commentator, and author of the book Written in My Soul, a collection of conversations about songwriting with Chuck Berry, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Mick Jagger and others.
The band members announce their first American dates in eighteen years, including a night at the legendary Roxy Theatre on Sunset in Los Angeles (the first West Coast venue they played some 20 plus years earlier).
European launch of Belvedere Red vodka, a special edition of the brand which will raise money for the Global Fund, the world's leading financier of programs to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
The band announce they will be playing two dates in June: at the Tinderbox Festival in Denmark and, for the first time in 14 years, a show in Iceland on June 25.
Japanese novelty record (a cover of a 1925 hit) was one of many released by dialect comic Harry Stewart under an alias (most of his others were under the name Yogi Yorgesson).
On December 31, 2016, Duran Duran perform at the MGM National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland for a sold out New Year's Eve show at the newly opened hotel and casino.
In March, Dom Brown is called in again to help out on the US Tour as Andy had to return to the UK to be with his father who was very ill.
After 17 years on the edge of music and technology, Duran Duran makes yet another break through by becoming the first band in the history of the Internet to digitally download a song for sale on the World Wide Web.
Simon is a guest on Be997 Radio South America for the entire week of March 19 and does a live phone interview with Radio Colombia on March 20 to talk about the 25th anniversary of THE WEDDING ALBUM.
United States in September as one of the headliners at Kaaboo Del Mar (CA); they do 2 nights at the Mountain Winery and 2 nights at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas before heading back in to the Studio.
The hardcover book examines Duran Duran's career through posters, from 1978 up to the present day, and includes rare and vintage promotional artwork from the largest Duran Duran poster archive in the world.
Jimmy Guterman and Owen O'Donnell's list of the worst rock and roll albums in the 1991 book The Worst Rock and Roll Records of All Time, bemoaning the lack of music on the album.
Duran Duran announce their 2016 North American Paper Gods tour with Simon doing a live video chat from backstage at the O2 Arena on Facebook Mentions, becoming the first artist to announce a tour using Mention.
On February 17th, the band begin rehearsals for their upcoming date in Milan where they will be performing at an event hosted by Vogue Italia, Comune di Milano and Hogan.
In 1997, Pet Sounds was named the 26th greatest album of all time in a Music of the Millennium poll conducted in the United Kingdom by HMV, Channel 4, The Guardian and Classic FM.
For the first time in music history, on September 3, Nick and Warren announce the launch of a TV Mania franchise, where fans can create their own TV Mania materials from a toolkit of music, image and design elements.
On July 16th, The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which is built and managed by the NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center, sends the names Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes, Roger Taylor and John Taylor to the moon.
Duran Duran commemorate the 30th Anniversary of the release of their third album, Seven and the Ragged Tiger, on November 21 by posting a short podcast about their memories of the recording process.
Duran Duran announces more US dates, including The Joint at the Hard Rock in Las Vegas which sells out in less than 10 minutes, with a second date being quickly added.
Silent Express is named the support act for the dates in Germany: January 24 at Tonhalle, Munich, January 26 at Haus Auensee, Leipzig, January 28 at Westfalenhalle 2, Dortmund and January 31 at Columbiahalle, Berlin.
On October 18, the thirtieth anniversary of the release of the album BIG THING, Simon, Nick, John and producers Jonathan Elias and Daniel Abraham revisit the making of the album with this oral history.
The band announces the upcoming publication of Would Someone Please Explain, The Best of Duran Duran's Ask Katy culled from ten years of questions from the ASK KATY column on Duranduran.
