Recent Chicago press
TV exposure cuts both ways for Duran Duran
“We started playing ‘Rio’ again on Broadway, actually,” [John]Taylor says. “People were saying we should play it, and at first it was, ‘Over my dead body.’ But then we played it, and tweaked it a bit, and it was great. You fiddle with the arrangement a bit and it brings out something totally new.”
“Little plastic surgeries,” [Nick] Rhodes says with a wink.
“It doesn’t get old,” Taylor says. “It’s like performing Shakespeare.”
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Duran Duran still works hard for the money
(a good review of their Dec. 14th show, if in need of some fact checking.)
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Duran Duran turns to Timbaland — and he produces
[Simon] LeBon also said Andy Taylor was growing more distant from the rest of his bandmates, who appear to still get along very well after all these years: kidding one another, finishing one another’s sentences. That’s was clear at one point in a recent interview when serious-looking Rhodes talked about their now-departed guitarist: ”Whilst no one can diminish Andy’s great contribution to the band and the time he spent with us …”
”I’m going to proceed to do just that!” interjected John Taylor, sending the band into uncontrollable laughter.
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Duran Duran ’80s playboys who are still wearing it well
“I’ve still got energy, and I believe in music and in its potential for transcendence,” he says. “I know that sounds a little highfalutin’ for a pop musician … but it keeps me alive. I know that much. I don’t know where I’d be without it.” - John Taylor
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Duran Duran fails to recapture magic with ‘Red Carpet’
A pretty cluelessly tepid review, sadly.
