On November 25, 1984, Bob Geldof, frontman of the Boomtown Rats, and Midge Ure, lead singer of Ultravox, assembled over thirty of Britain’s leading rock and pop music […]

In 2002, Nick Rhodes collaborated with Stephen Duffy, lead singer of The Lilac Time and one of the co-founders of Duran Duran, on an album, Dark Circles, which they […]

“…an album that was made by some guys once, and that’s it.” I’ve been paying a lot of extra attention to Simon and Nick in recent Duranalyses. Since I […]

We’re so busted, done and dusted… Misfortune plagued Duran Duran’s 2007 Red Carpet Massacre album from the beginning: Andy left the band for the second (and presumably final) time under […]

Hide the lacy frocks! Nick and Simon have descended upon Sears! In the summer of 1993, back when Duran Duran was riding high on its post-Wedding Album renaissance, Nick and […]

Know you’ve got to save some for the shoeshine boy… “All She Wants Is” was the second single off of Duran Duran’s 1988 Big Thing album. The video was directed […]

The music’s between us… The video for “(Reach up for the) Sunrise”, the first single off of Duran Duran’s 2004 Astronaut album, marked the first time the five original band […]

Here’s an incomprehensible ghost story, featuring Simon, Nick, and Warren. “Out of My Mind” is a single off of Duran Duran’s 1997 Medazzaland album. The album, despite being quite good, […]

Everybody, everywhere, feel it in the air… Duran Duran just released the video for “Pressure Off”, the first single off their new Paper Gods album, and it’s a good one; since […]

Where are you now? ‘Cause I don’t want to meet you… I briefly touched on this one a few years back in my Duranalysis of the band’s agreeably half-assed […]