He had a song from the early ’90s called “Long Way Down.” With a wonderful video made by the Brothers Quay. Would it help you open up if I gave you some compliments? I tend to want somebody else to do all that stuff and then tell me how great I am. I kind of shied away from it, to be honest with you.īecause there’s so much more there’s so much stuff to do now. What’s been your biggest revelation revisiting the album all these years later? I’ve been listening to Duran Duran frequently over the past month when I realized it hit the 40-year mark. “This was very nice,” he tells me at the end. Our chat turned out to be equal parts thoughtful of the past and future, with the singer-songwriter offering a warm cocktail of memories that often made him pause mid-sentence and smile. All it takes is a little coaxing and encouragement to get him to humor me and look at his band’s history. Within minutes of meeting Le Bon earlier this month in Manhattan - a pleasant surprise, given variant this and variant that - he admits he doesn’t tend to have a “retrospective mind,” the recent 40th anniversary of Duran Duran, an objectively excellent debut, be damned. Fifteen albums and one less Taylor later, Duran Duran is returning on October 22 with their newest album FUTURE PAST, led by the mischievous “INVISIBLE,” complete with a music video created by an artificial-intelligence artist, and “MORE JOY.” It’s a testament to decades of thinking like clever auteurs. But unlike most of their peers, these New Romantics never stopped making us dance. Along with John Taylor, Nick Rhodes, Roger Taylor, and Andy Taylor, Le Bon, front and center, was one part of the classic-era quintet that grew to define the MTV generation from “Girls on Film” to “Rio” to “The Reflex,” their roaring synths were inescapable just as much as their polished music videos were on loop. Simon Le Bon is one of New Wave’s beautifully coiffed magic men, serving as the erotic bard of sorts throughout Duran Duran’s celestial ascent in the ’80s, beaming down into Tiger Beat by way of the cosmos, if you will.
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