Morgan Richter

“Perfect Day,” Duran Duran’s immaculate version of the 1972 Lou Reed classic, appeared on Thank You, their 1995 album of covers. While Thank You was critically savaged upon release (Rolling Stone called […]

This band is perfect, just don’t scratch the surface… The video for “Too Much Information”, the third single off of Duran Duran’s 1993 Wedding Album, was directed by Julien […]

Came in from a rainy Thursday on the avenue… “Ordinary World” was the first single released off of Duran Duran’s 1992 self-titled album, which, because Duran Duran already had a […]

Gear up, Simon. Let’s do this. “Violence of Summer (Love’s Taking Over)” was the first single released off of Duran Duran’s 1990 Liberty album. The video, which was shot in […]

Hey, remember back in 2001 when John Taylor starred as a wealthy, murderous rapist in a straight-to-DVD quasi-religious erotic thriller with incongruous supernatural undertones? Neither did I. Until […]

Last month I received an email from Andrew Golub, wondering if I’d consider Duranalyzing his book, Beautiful Colors: The Posters of Duran Duran. This was the best idea I’d heard […]

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 […]