In the spring of 1982, the British rock group Duran Duran were working on their second album at AIR Studios in London. At the time, the five-member band of Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes, John Taylor, Andy ...
I grew up with Marcie Hunt-Dinkel smiling at me. She was pinned to my wall as a teen. There are three copies of her picture on my living-room shelf today. Two more in a drawer below where the CDs are ...
New wave wouldn’t be the same without these English pop behemoths. Duran Duran owe much of their success to their exposure on MTV, who played their gaudy music videos relentlessly. One of their most ...
WASHINGTON – As Duran Duran bopped through their 1983 hit “Is There Something I Should Know?,” vintage magazine covers spotlighting their popularity of that era flipped across overhead screens. “We’re ...
Dressed for the occasion with their faces painted like the undead and a cobwebbed stage set right out of a haunted house slasher film, Duran Duran played Encore Theater in Las Vegas, Nevada, on ...
Duran Duran released their second album, Rio, on May 10, 1982. The LP featured three future classics — “Hungry Like the Wolf,” “Rio” and “Save a Prayer” — but also moodier fare such as the aching ...