![]() ![]() ![]() They say: “You put into words and music the way I feel. That’s what I get more than anything from fans of Duran Duran. Music makes people feel they’re not alone in the world. She taught me to be kind and not be a bully, and to help people when they need it. My mum was a very, very big influence in my life and she taught me about being a good person. As we walked off, we heard the MC say “Thank you Dogshit!” But you had to start somewhere. All you could hear was the drums and a little bit of shouting from me. We went past our time and they pulled the plug on us, but we carried on without amplification. We were a proper punk band – this was 1977-78 – and we played our one and only show at Harrow Tech supporting a power funk band called Supercharge, who wouldn’t let us set up on stage. I remember walking into town in my CND greatcoat from the army surplus, walking around, buying a bar of chocolate, walking home again and not talking to anybody.Īt Harrow Art School I was in a band called Dog Days. I had stopped being so shy but two years earlier I didn’t have any friends. There’s not a lot of optimism around, is there? I miss it. It’s very different from the feeling at the moment. Bowie inspired this feeling of optimism in me and it made me tingle. This modern, clean, young fresh world he painted, this utopia. I found the song Drive-In Saturday absolutely compulsive. ![]() I remember Space Oddity being on the radio, but didn’t buy a Bowie record until Aladdin Sane. This was before punk and I was just getting into David Bowie. In this week’s Letter To My Younger Self, he tells The Big Issue‘s Adrian Lobb how he initially wanted to be an actor – but that he still gets the same thrill from playing music as he did when Duran Duran first started playing together. Not bad for a band that grew out of a nightclub in Birmingham. Their latest LP, Future Past, entered the charts at No3 when it was released in October 2021 – meaning Le Bon and his bandmates Nick Rhodes, John Taylor and Roger Taylor have had Top 5 albums in each of the last five decades. The band have sold more than 100 million records, recorded a classic Bond theme (A View T A Kill), performed at both Live Aid (in Philadelphia) and the Princess Diana Tribute Concert and toured with their hero, David Bowie. Simon Le Bon has been a pop star for 40 years, ever since his band Duran Duran’s debut single Planet Earth rocketed into the Top 20.ĭuran Duran were pioneers of the music video, stars of the New Romantic scene and found fame around the world. ![]()
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