Wild Boys: The Story of Duran Duran

This programme contains some strong language.

# Can you hear me? #

We've been through changes.

It took 17 years to get rid of the three Taylors.

HIGH-PITCHED VOICE: Welcome to our show!

John Taylor was the bomb - the one all the girlies wanted.

We were like a gang, a gang of princes!

I saw myself as a bit of an Errol Flynn -

a bit of swash and buckle.

It was the blueprint for new pop bands.

# I tell you somebody's fooling around... #

They were really good-looking

and they were dressed in a glamorous and cool new way.

They were the Beatles of the '80s, a classic pop band.

They can make records, write the music and perform it live.

It's not a lip-synch affair. It's the real thing.

The life and times of Duranasty.

Yes.

Summer 2000. On tour in the USA,

a gang of pop princes are celebrating their 20th anniversary.

# Mesmerised

# It's in your eyes... #

They're not a teenybop band from the '80s. They've transcended that.

Line-up 2000 features originals Simon Le Bon and Nick Rhodes

along with American guitarist Warren Cuccurullo.

Simon has his own personality. Nick has a fashion flair that I'm in awe of.

-And... I don't know.

-Warren's the muscle man!

Having sold over 60 million records worldwide,

Duran Duran lived the '80s dream of wealth, women and wild living.

This is their story from Planet Earth to pop trash.

It all began in '70s Birmingham,

when Nick Rhodes, John Taylor and Stephen Duffy formed an art-school band.

Birmingham was this nether world between London and the north.

Birmingham needed something of its own. It didn't have a punk band.

You know, Manchester had the Buzzcocks.

Neither of us played a thing,

but we just knew we had to learn. That was just an obstacle

to us being in a band.

We were inspired by Low and Heroes, so Bowie was still important

but punk had just begun.

# We're so pretty, oh, so pretty

# We're vacant... #

The Sex Pistols literally pointed at me and said, "You're all right.

"You're 17 and you've got nothing else in your life, so come on."

They took the name Duran Duran

from a character in the sexy sci-fi film Barbarella.

Four gigs later, they looked set to be what Birmingham needed.

# We're so pretty, oh, so pretty... #

I thought things were going really well. About a week later, Stephen decided to leave.

They were the most ambitious people I'd met.

I never doubted that they were going to be superstars.

As Stephen Duffy launched his cultish solo career,

new romantics made an impact on pop culture.

Even Birmingham's top night spot embraced the fashionable movement.

The Rum Runner club was a beacon for adventurous musical directions.

It took its inspiration from Roxy Music and David Bowie.

Most significant day in our history -

Nick and I showed up at the Rum Runner with a demo tape, asking if we could play a gig.

Paul and Michael Berrow wanted to become involved.

They said, "Yeah, you can play here,

"but do you have a manager?"

And we said, "No."

Somehow the fact that they had this nightclub that we could play at

and rehearse at seemed to be a really good deal.

With regular gigs guaranteed,

they recruited two more unrelated Taylors -

drummer Roger and guitarist Andy.

But they still desperately needed a decent singer.

# Slow down, you're moving too fast

# You gotta make the morning last... #

The answer to their prayers

would be former chip-loving child-star-turned-thespian, Simon Le Bon.

I put my best pair of pants on and a pair of Chelsea boots

and got on a number 8 bus

and took a ride to the Rum Runner.

NICK RHODES: When Simon walked in, I thought he looked like one of us, which really worked.

I thought he was one of our tribe. I just hoped he could sing.

I had my book of lyrics with about 20 songs in there.

And that's what, I think, attracted them to me.

NICK RHODES: Using the energy of the punk movement,

the style of the glam movement, the groove of disco music,

and some German electronic music thrown in on top,

is really what created the Duran Duran sound

that we launched in 1980.

# It's easy to disturb with a thought when you whisper

# With a careless memory

# With a careless memory

# With a careless memory

# With a careless memory... #

I walked on stage to play in the first Duran Duran show of my life

and I couldn't think of anything to say. People were staring at me.

I stood there and I went, "This is our party. This is your party!"

# Where are you now Cos I don't want to meet you?

# I think I'd die I think I'd laugh at you

# I know I'd cry What am I supposed to do? #

Paul and Michael decided

that we needed to expose ourselves

on a national level.

The best way would be to buy ourselves on to a tour.

# On the third week at Greenham blew bye-bye

# On the fourth we sent rockets to the sky... #

In late 1980, Duran supported punk princess Hazel O'Connor

on their first tour of the UK.

The Berrow brothers were very clever.

And I think it was a masterful stroke

to have Duran Duran opening for me at that time in my career.

# ..and he said behold... #

We did this thing in the Dominion in London, last gig of the tour.

We were singing Suffragette City, all of us together.

We just all got along really well.

# Oh, don't lean on me, man cos you can't afford the ticket

# I'm back in suffragette city

# Don't lean on me, man cos you can't afford the ticket... #

They had great songs, brilliant songs.

We'd run to the back of the auditorium and watch them.

Duran Duran caught the eye of the man who signed the Sex Pistols.

Looking at the lead singer, I thought Simon was an absolute star.

Then you looked at the rest of the band, and they all looked fantastic.

I thought, "This is going to be massive."

# Only came outside to watch the nightfall with the rain. #

We really thought we'd arrived. This was something we'd grown up watching.

# Like some new romantic looking for the TV sound... #

They were such new romantics. When they did that, they had the crimped hair, the ruffles.

They looked ridiculous, but they matured very quickly.

# Can you hear me now?

# Oh, this is Planet Earth. #

The look was androgynous. It wasn't a sexual thing, it was ethereal.

# This is Planet Earth. #

Nick Rhodes was fantastic.

The blonde hair swept over to one side, the make-up...

And straight as well.

It wasn't a gay thing necessarily.

It was just about men looking beautiful.

When Bolan and Bowie and Roxy Music wore make-up, it suited them.

The problem with Duran Duran

was that they were not very beautiful.

We had a lot of criticism from the serious rock press

who thought you shouldn't care about things like that.

You should go on stage with your grubby jeans and your axe.

I thought the whole thing was a filthy business.

Duran Duran was about having energy, style and a sense of humour.

Their first single, Planet Earth,

broke the UK charts in 1981

but it would be Godley and Creme's video for Girls On Film

that really got them noticed.

PAUL BERROW: Girls On Film, there were these two interesting video directors.

They were always doing slightly quirky, unusual videos.

They were right for Girls On Film.

The only brief that we were given, as I recall,

was that it should be daring, it should feature the band,

and it should have an undercurrent,

or indeed an overcurrent, if there is such a word, of sex.

The video market in the USA was becoming important.

A chain of clubs had video screens.

We thought we'd make an X-rated video.

It could have been sexier actually.

It was too porno and not sexy enough.

It worked in clubs. We could show it there. No-one else was going to show it. It was a "restricted", I believe.

To escape the stir caused by Girls On Film,

the five boys fled to Sri Lanka

to film the first of their "pop stars in paradise" videos.

There was the music and the visuals.

It was one of the first bands that married visuals and music together.

People looked forward to the next Duran video.

# Don't say a prayer for me now

# Save it till the morning after

# No, don't say a prayer for me now... #

-MICHAEL BERROW:

-We recorded an elephant trumpeting. It was a male calling a female.

Then we played it back to them,

so this elephant that had been talking to a female elephant

was now hearing itself talking to an elephant on the speakers.

Roger was on the female elephant, wasn't he?

The elephant just took off down stream!

The managers just saw their drummer going off down the river.

They just went white.

This bull elephant wasn't going to come back. It had the drummer on its back.

From shooting the videos in Sri Lanka, we went to Australia,

played there and then went back to America.

It was amazing, because in the space of four or five months

we had become massive, a really big outfit.

New York's Broadway saw some extraordinary scenes

when Duran Duran went to sign autographs in a video store.

It turned out to be reminiscent of the days when the Beatles took the USA by storm.

Love them. They're great.

GIRLS SCREAMING

NEWS FOOTAGE: Within minutes of their arrival, police were called in.

Like animals out here!

Eager fans scrambled for vantage points

and were unceremoniously removed by police, who said they'd seen nothing like it for years.

There's tons of people here. There's 2,000, 3,000, four million!

America embraced Duran because of their style, their fashion sense

and the way that they integrate that in with their music

and their sensibility about who they want to be.

# I smell like I sound

# I'm lost and I'm found

# And I'm hungry like the wolf

# Straddle the line in discord and rhyme... #

With Raiders Of The Lost Ark imagery and Simon swashbuckling,

the video for Hungry Like The Wolf was a favourite with MTV.

In a Beatles-esque tradition, we all took a vacation together.

We all went to Antigua except Andy, who'd just got married.

I think he went to Wolverhampton for a holiday - a busman's holiday.

We rented apartments at English Harbour.

We were all with our girlfriends and we'd all lock up at night.

In the morning, we'd come out with our towels and our swimming trunks.

"Hey! Morning!" We'd go swimming.

It was like being in MI5.

We were just about to leave and Paul called and said,

"Don't leave. Andy and me are coming over

"and the film crew are coming over to do some videos."

# Her name is Rio and she dances on the sand... #

NICK: Russell had the idea of doing it on this boat,

which seemed like a good idea at the time and cinematically it was a good idea.

To me it was a complete nightmare because I loathe boats.

I think they're fine when they're tied up

and you have a little cocktail with a few friends when the sun's setting.

But once they get out and they start going like that...

I don't like that so much.

There we are, wearing these bright silk Anthony Price suits,

clinging for dear life.

# ..down to the Rio Grande. #

When I throw Andy off the boat, he didn't know I was going to do it.

He was very upset about it.

It wasn't planned.

It was just a moment of spontaneous meanness!

PAUL MORLEY: I remember when Le Bon wore that yellow suit.

He just looked like a lump you'd find in your custard.

There was nothing beautiful about it.

All that mattered was the image. That's what people got.

People got this amazing sort of...

..incredibly glamorous feeling from the whole thing.

That's what people wanted at the time.

At this election, we have the chance to banish for ever

the dark, divisive clouds of extreme left-wing socialism.

Margaret Thatcher and Milton Friedman came along

and offered us a new vision of right-wing thinking -

every man for himself and let's make lots of money.

# I made a break I run out yesterday

# Tried to find my mountain hideaway

# Maybe next year... #

Duran Duran and Spandau, those two bands, suggested a celebration of,

you know, let's go out and get it, let's go and enjoy it and who cares?

# Please, please tell me now

# Is there something I should know?

# Is there something I should say

# That'll make you come my way? #

Duran Duran were, like, number one. That was the life, right there.

I'm desperate to know what it's like to be a pop star.

Really? What do you imagine it's like?

-I'm still hoping.

-Do you think it's all fast cars, fast women, fast living?

-That's probably part of it.

-It is!

We were still at school. We found out where Simon's dad lived in Pinner.

I'd made him a cake. He'd mentioned on Saturday Superstore

that he liked orange Smarties, so we decorated it with orange Smarties.

We gave it to his dad. An hour later, Simon came out with the cake.

It was cut into pieces and we all tucked in.

He signed autographs and posed for pictures.

He was just so fantastic.

I phoned my mum and said, "I've just met Simon." She said, "Simon who?"

# ..Please, please tell me now... # They were winning everything.

John Taylor was always Best-Looking Male.

Simon was The Best Dressed.

They were the best-loved group of the '80s, above Spandau and Wham.

The winner...

-It's a good year for Birmingham. Duran Duran.

-Simon Le Bon.

-Rio by Duran Duran.

-Duran Duran.

And the winner is Duran Duran.

We had our own chart. It was T-shirt sales.

John topped the T-shirt sales year after year after year.

John Taylor was the handsome one, a bit more laid back.

He knew he was good looking,

and took advantage of it.

You're going to all these places,

and you're meeting great people and getting all this attention.

# ..And the wind doesn't have a name

# So call it what you want to call it

# Still blows down the lane... #

I wrote the song Hold Back The Rain about John

because it was saying to John, "Hey, careful, man.

"Don't lose yourself." I thought he was going off the rails a bit.

Nobody had ever warned me about the pitfalls.

It seemed like, "Drugs. That's what The Beatles did,

"that's what the Rolling Stones do. Why wouldn't I want to?"

John was staying up too late,

taking drugs, drinking too much, going home with the wrong people.

"Why don't you want to have sex?

"If someone's pretty and they want to have sex with you?"

The night I wrote it, I slipped a copy of it under his door.

He's never mentioned it to me. Never.

Sometimes you need to take yourself to the edge

to realise this is not the right place.

The demands on the band increased as Duran-mania intensified.

By the mid-80s, they'd already sold ten million records

and performed to one million Duranies.

# ..Fear hangs a plane of gunsmoke

# Drifting in our room... #

We got used to the excitement that that screaming gives you.

Whenever it died down, one of us would go up and shake a little bit.

That would pick it right up again.

# ..Drifting in our room... #

Oh, my God! Oh, my God!

# ..I just try to forget y-o-u... #

ALL: I love you. I love you. John!

Being stuck at the front and being so squashed -

15,000 fans trying to get you to move out of the way.

It was so unbelievable, so crushed that you think, "I'm never going to get out."

You do. And you go back the next night.

# ..So easy to disturb with a thought

# With a whisper

# With a careless memory

# With a careless memory

# With a careless memory

# With a careless memory. #

I remember leaving a venue before they put the house lights up,

you wanted to leave attracting as little attention as possible.

I remember having a private plane which was on a nearby airfield,

getting the plane up at 11pm and circling over the venue.

People coming out of the venue...

That was an image that stuck with me.

The band had conquered the world.

Critics that had expected them to fade away had been proved wrong.

The band hooked up with big-league producer Nile Rodgers of Chic.

The first work I did with Duran was the famous -

# Tra-la-la-la, tra-la-la-la Fl-fl-fl-flex. #

# ..You've gone to far this time

# But I'm dancing on the Valentine... #

The record company thought it was an absolute disaster.

I remember the guys calling me, and they were close to tears,

especially Nick who was saying,

"Nile, I can't believe this. They told us it was horrible."

They asked what they should do. I told them to put the record out.

They did and you guys know what happened, right?

Whoosh to the top of the charts. It's their best-selling single.

# ..W-h-y don't you use it?... #

Although Number One in the UK and US,

not everyone was aware of their global following.

I knew they were well-known. I didn't think they were that huge.

When we went on our first date, a movie premiere,

I didn't expect there to be that many screaming fans.

There were thousands.

That's when it occurred to me that they were bigger than I thought.

Duran Duran had it all -

superstar musicians who dressed flash and had model partners.

# ..I'm on a ride and I want to get off... #

The fans have never worried me at all.

There are a lot of well-known pretty young ladies out there,

who all go a bit of a flutter when they meet him.

It's really strange cos he's Simon. It's a very odd thing.

I went away with Simon and Yasmin on a weekend.

We had the first dinner and I said to him,

"I've got something to tell you.

"When I was 14, I had a poster of you and your group on my wall."

The most famous Duranie was Diana, Princess of Wales,

who met the band when they played the Prince's Trust in 1983.

Across the Atlantic, Duran, like Blondie, were regular guests at the court of Andy Warhol.

Andy always liked good-looking young men.

He was attracted to them. They were a picture of pop art come to life.

# ..You got sirens for a welcome

# There's bloodstain for your pain... #

It's the nearest there is to a movie of the William Burroughs book.

# ..They tried to tame you, looks like they'll try again

-# Wild boys

-Wild boys... #

Because of the level of aggression and violence in the music,

I thought it would look good for the band to perform under duress.

# ..Wild boys always shine... #

I said, "OK, we'll strap you to the windmill,

but I want the windmill to go underwater."

# ..You got sirens for a welcome

# There's bloodstain for your pain

# And your telephone's been ringing

# While you're dancing in the rain... #

It was my idea for my head to go underwater as well.

There's a big myth about this.

I heard that he almost drowned.

During one of the circles, he was stuck underwater.

It broke down with him underwater.

He was underwater for at least 40 seconds to a minute.

I think I DIDN'T nearly drown. There were two safety divers there,

and there were people around me.

If I had been stuck underwater, I'd have been dragged out quickly.

Fantastic.

If Duran Duran ever walked down a punk-rock street,

that was the closest they could get.

I could have done Wild Boys with The Clash.

People will say, "NO! Fucking hell, man!"

If The Clash had done Wild Boys, the vocals wouldn't be the same,

but vibe-wise it would make sense.

# ..Wild boys never lose it... #

Their videos were so indulgent.

That bugged a lot of people.

# ..Wild boys never close your eyes Wild boys always... #

They acted like they'd won the pools. That's what pop groups do.

There was something about them that showed off a little too much.

Wild Boys would be the peak

of their international punk/rock-meets-teenybop fame.

Touring became more relentless and the media attention more intense.

Duran Duran began to pay the price of their success.

We were arguably the best, not the best, the biggest,

most successful band on the planet,

and probably had been for two years.

We had it all going our own way,

for some reason, all bands do this,

when they're really at the top, they fragment.

Fed up with being branded "teen idols",

musical differences led to John and Andy Taylor

taking a sabbatical from Duran Duran to form rock band Power Station with Robert Palmer.

It was what I needed.

It showed we could do things outside Duran Duran.

It wasn't all about the looks and phenomena.

We could make really great music.

I thought it was really rockist.

I wasn't very me at all.

It was all the things I would avoid -

really heavy, clompy drum sounds,

lots of guitar riffs and solos.

In reaction to Power Station, Nick, Simon and Roger moved to Paris

to form their satellite pop art band, Arcadia.

It featured collaborations with Grace Jones and Sting.

We were living in a hotel in Paris. We had the whole floor.

We'd open our doors and we could run from one end to another through all the suites.

It was an extravagant record, but...

I don't know. What are you gonna spend your money on?

ANNOUNCER: It's 12 noon in London, 7am in Philadelphia.

And around the world, it's time for Live Aid.

Live to Philadelphia for Duran Duran.

Due to Power Station's US tour,

Simon, Nick and Roger had to fly to Philadelphia

to perform at Live Aid USA.

# Meeting you, with a view to a kill

# Face to face in secret places, feel the chill... #

Cracks were beginning to appear in their make-up.

It was Roger, really.

After the Live Aid show, he just said, "That's it for me."

Roger was, I think, very affected by the whole situation,

particularly what was happening to the band -

his world was breaking up.

Also, he hated doing interviews.

Still does. It stressed him out

in a way that he wasn't prepared to accept.

He was on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

He was a very sensitive guy.

I think when we stopped a little in '85, to do Arcadia,

we'd taken the rollercoaster up to the top

and suddenly he was looking down, as were the rest of us,

and we went, "Wow!

"That's a long way down, isn't it?"

And...that's when he got vertigo.

He said, "I don't want to do this.

"I don't like it. I don't want to be public property."

In 1986, Roger Taylor quit Duran Duran

and retreated to his country home with his wife.

He remains out of the spotlight.

Popstar Simon Le Bon and the crew of his capsized yacht

have been saved from gale-force seas.

REPORTER: Simon Le Bon's racer, Drum England,

capsized in force eight winds.

Most of the crew scrambled clear, but six, including Le Bon,

were trapped inside the hull in an air pocket.

After about 45 minutes,

we heard a helicopter, ten minutes later, a guy pops his head up.

An hour later, I'd swam out and up,

surfaced and started to get winched off back to land.

Everything went through my mind -

I wouldn't be seeing Yasmin again,

I wouldn't see my brother David, my brother Jonathan, my mum, my dad.

I thought he was really courageous, not cos it's a dangerous race,

but for following a dream -

for not being sensible and staying at home,

writing another album, and doing what people thought he should do,

he did something that was extraordinary.

# N-N-Notorious... #

With Roger gone, the next disgruntled Taylor to jump ship was guitarist Andy.

He wanted to pursue his solo career.

When Andy decided to go,

it was inevitable, really, that our role...

As far as we were concerned, what we'd been involved in no longer existed.

John was the first person

to formally fire the Berrows.

We felt bitter, actually,

that only three of the five band had somehow made it through

to the other side.

Why? Who were we gonna blame?

We blamed the only people we could, our managers.

Everybody had a lawyer.

-The whole process...

-The bureaucracy...

What they were good at and what we were good at -

you couldn't do that, sit at a table, any more,

all of that stopped.

On the departure of the Berrows,

Nick, John and Simon took on the role of managing themselves.

# ..You pay the profits to justify your reasons... #

With a new album looming,

the first job was the search for a new guitarist.

We were in the studios making Notorious

and we get sent a tape and a photograph

from this guy called Warren.

Warren had played in a US band called Missing Persons.

And back to personalities, we loved Warren.

John said I was too good to be true.

He saw some video of a song which I had put in my package.

John said, "There was a great pout." I thought, "That's it!"

Despite the addition of Warren, by the late '80s, Duran looked dead.

The media gleefully decided that these '80s playboys had had their day.

We reached a point where we said, "We won't lose any more ground.

"We're going to dig in and fight to the death."

That's where Warren came in.

Then things really clicked

and we were able to write together.

Every time we played in a room, some spark would happen.

You can't put any value on that.

It's great to have them back. It's Duran Duran and Ordinary World.

# Came in from a rainy Thursday on the avenue

# Thought I heard you talking softly

# I turned on the lights the TV and the radio

# Still I can't escape the ghost of you... #

When I heard we were going to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame,

I thought they were joking. How do you get one of those things?

Who decides?

But at the same time, there's something about it

that was really quite wonderful.

Just sort of standing there with the Mayor of Los Angeles,

on a Saturday morning, getting your star.

I don't know, it was very surreal.

# ..make my way to the ordinary world

# I will learn to survive. #

We got back on the road, we were selling tickets.

We were back.

But once we'd dealt with that problem of being cared about,

then came the problems of dealing with each other.

Being on tour during the Wedding album,

knowing that every city I went in, everybody knew those songs,

when we played them, everybody.

It was great. I thought it was always going to be that way.

-JILL DANDO:

-Now a band successful on both sides of the Atlantic.

Their name is synonymous with the best in British pop

of the '80s and '90s. They are Duran Duran.

I wrote a song for Yasmin, and it was Come Undone.

And in the first verse, it goes,

"Mine, immaculate dream made breath and skin, I've been waiting for you.

"Signed with a home tattoo, 'happy birthday to you'...

"was created for you."

And I put it in because I wrote it on October 29th, her birthday.

That was my "Happy birthday to you".

# Mine

# Immaculate dream

# Made breath and skin

# I've been waiting for you

# Signed

# With a home tattoo... #

YASMIN: Ever since I've known Simon, it's been hard being in this band.

I have so much respect for them.

I have so much respect for him. It must eat away at your soul.

It must be so difficult to stay fresh and innocent and unjaded.

I don't know how, but he manages it.

Play all the music live, bust the others with the Furious Five!

We had a record in '95, a covers album called Thank You.

-# Freeze! Say rock, y'all!

-Rock!

-Say freeze, come on! #

That was one of our commercial suicide bids, I think!

-# Say rock, come on y'all!

-Rock!

-Say freeze, come on! #

We did White Lines with Melle Mel and Grandmaster Flash.

-# Freeze! Say rock, y'all!

-Rock...

-#

Nobody wanted to play it.

Alternative radio said, "There's black people on it. We can't do it.

"Can you do it without the rapping?"

I was very disappointed with Thank You.

I felt Thank You was an easy ride.

My choices for the album were things that were important to me.

Songs like Lou Reed's Perfect Day.

It's one reason I wanted to be in a band.

# Just a perfect day

# Drink sangria in the park

# Later, when it gets dark

# We go home... #

I think Duran Duran's version of Perfect Day is...

possibly the best re-recording of a song of mine that I've heard.

I was absolutely wild about it.

# Then later, a movie too

# Then home... #

To cover it was an imaginative thing to do, but I can't give any credit.

# It's such a perfect day

# I'm glad I spent it with you

# Such a perfect day

# You just keep me hanging on. #

It ended up becoming a complicated album.

By the time it got finished and released, it was already a disaster.

Then I just thought, after that...

I was kinda done.

# Don't you worry Time's the healer... #

We did feel at that stage that John was becoming increasingly distant.

I think his private life was very different, he had some problems.

And he was spending a lot of time in California, basically commuting,

which doesn't really work in a band.

My ambition for the band just came to an end.

I thought, "Well, we can do it all again, maybe.

"But it won't be as much fun."

It shocked us, it really did. We just didn't see it coming.

He'd started the band with Nick, it was a big part of him.

It was worse when John left. Roger and Andy didn't have as many fans.

The three favourites were still in, but when John left it was quite sad.

# We're heading for meltdown If you don't mind, I'll disappear

# I've no desire to hang around and use its grim fear... #

The journey I've been on since I left has been no less hectic,

but it's helped me redefine myself

as somebody other than, you know, the bass player with Duran Duran.

Duran Duran - a group of warm, wonderful

and civilised human beings working in today's music industry.

Since John's departure, Duran Duran have left EMI Records

and signed to hip American label, Hollywood Records.

For me, they were the equivalent of Roxy Music and David Bowie.

They were the coolest thing.

The climate for Duran Duran here in the US

is high because everyone's listening to,

you know, classic stuff.

20 years on, the band a targeting a new generation of Duranies.

# Electric bomb! #

# Every little thing the reflex does

# Leaves the answer with a question mark! #

# Wild boys! Never lose it

# Wild boys!

# Never chose this way

# Wild boys!

# Never close your eyes

# Wild boys always...!

# Shine! #

There was a selfish part of me that would have liked it to finish,

but that was a choice that I made.

And now I'm glad that they... that it's still...

that it still exists, you know.

I don't miss there being five of us at all.

It's less problems for me to deal with, less people to argue with.

# They tried to tame you

# Looks like they'll try again... #

They're a part of rock history.

They've shaped so much musically and visually, they can sustain it.

As long as Nick and Simon stay together, they'll be Duran Duran.

# Wild boys always shine! #

Our entire existence is focused on making something

which, if you're lucky,

becomes part of the wallpaper of other people's lives.

# Never close your eyes

# Wild boys always

# Shi-i-ine!

# Wild boys!

# Wild boys! #

The Life and Times of Duranasty. Yes.