Duran Duran had a wide-ranging chat with VogueMagazine about everything from their art-school origins to their uber-80s screaming stardom to their new album.
ROGER: In terms of one’s collision with the zeitgeist, there were also things that we were able to do that nobody could have done before us simply because of technology and the availability of things.SIMON: We just came at this incredible time when all these roads crossed at the same place and we were at this junction—it was musical, it was fashion, it was the technology of the video—
JOHN: It was hugely significant, though: I think before Sri Lanka we were still kind of a club band: We looked like a club band, we thought like a club band, and people sort of thought of us like that. But we came out of that and got to Australia, where people had seen the video, and we were stars.Is there any way to quantify how famous you were at the height of Duran Duran?
NICK: I felt bad for the other guests in the hotels we stayed in, truly, because we’d sometimes have a few hundred fans surrounding our hotel, singing, until 2 or 3 in the morning. JOHN: I think there’s kind of a fallacy in our society about the solo artist and what the individual can achieve. It’s like being married for a while and thinking,. I think we’re a testament to achieving things collectively. It’s what drives us.NICK: Bizarrely, our sort of internal democracy actually works pretty well—moreso than any political democracy I can think of. [laughter]You’ve also got a kind of murderer’s row of guest musicians on the new record.
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