Like a radio tune I swear I’ve heard before… “Come Undone” is the second single off of the band’s 1993 self-titled album, which is known far and wide […]
Duranalysis: Duran Duran on Kulture Shock
I came across this fascinating cultural artifact recently on YouTube: It’s an interview with Simon and Nick from October 1984 for a music news show called Kulture Shock, which apparently aired […]
Duranalysis: Do You Believe in Shame?
Just that lately I’ve been so damn lonely when I think of you… At long last! More Duranalysis! My original plan was to start tackling the Notorious videos—“Skin Trade” and […]
Duranalysis: Falling Down
For something new and different, we’re moving out of Duran Duran’s golden era and heading all the way up to 2007 with a look at the video for […]
Duranalysis: Neil Gaiman’s Duran Duran
Back in 1984, at the start of his career, Neil Gaiman—the best-selling, award-winning, widely-acclaimed author of Coraline, Stardust, the Sandman comics, etcetera—wrote a book titled Duran Duran: The First Four Years of the […]
Duranalysis: Three to Get Ready
Three To Get Ready is a David Gasperik-directed documentary shot in early 1987 as Duran Duran was promoting their funk-infused Notorious album and gearing up for their Strange Behaviour tour. The […]
Duranalysis: Electric Barbarella
People say they’ve heard about our deviation… “Electric Barbarella” was a single off of Duran Duran’s 1997 album Medazzaland. This was a strange and bleak time in the band’s […]
Duranalysis: John Taylor’s In the Pleasure Groove versus Andy Taylor’s Wild Boy: My Life in Duran Duran
Duranalysis: John Taylor’s In the Pleasure Groove versus Andy Taylor’s Wild Boy: My Life in Duran Duran John Taylor’s memoir, In the Pleasure Groove: Love, Death & Duran Duran, […]
Duranalysis: Arcadia’s Election Day
Plans were originally in place to have Ridley Scott (!) direct Arcadia’s 1985 video for “Election Day,” but when his production schedule for Legend conflicted, Scott suggested Roger Christian, who’d […]
Duranalysis: Arena (An Absurd Notion)
For the past, oh, several months, I’ve been loosely planning on doing one of my Duranalysis thingymabobs on Arena (An Absurd Notion), Duran Duran’s 1984 Russell Mulcahy-directed science fiction-themed […]