Then a disillusioned Roger quit the music business entirely, leaving LeBon and Rhodes to soldier on in Duran Duran. When Seven & the Ragged Tiger went multi-platinum in ’83, critics compared the Birmingham, England-born synth-pop purveyors to The Beatles as Duran-mania ruled teen scenes on both sides of the Atlantic.īy 1985, however, the party was coming to an end: Andy Taylor and John Taylor joined forces with Robert Palmer in The Power Station, while LeBon, Rhodes, and Roger Taylor retaliated with Arcadia. Rhodes, of course, is referencing the band’s heyday in the early ’80s, when singles like “Is There Something I Should Know” and “Girls On Film” topped radio and music-video playlists. We knew that if we could make this work, there was no reason it couldn’t be as good or better than it ever was.” “We were careful to give each other space and make sure everybody was happy. “There was certainly a lot of humility in the room,” he remembers. One day, someone started playing ‘Hungry Like the Wolf,’ and we all joined in-we were like ‘yeah, that still works.’” “In June, 2001, we rented a big house in the South of France and trucked everything in and started playing,” he says. The reunion was three years in the making, and, as Rhodes explains, its beginnings were top secret. “It’s complete Duran-demonium,” he deadpans. After all, it’s taken nearly two decades for the Fab Five-keyboardist Rhodes, frontman Simon LeBon, guitarist Andy Taylor, bassist John Taylor, and drummer Roger Taylor-to regroup and record Astronaut, the original line-up’s first new studio album in 21 years. “Things are somewhat frantic right now,” Rhodes confesses, but he’s obviously relishing the moment. Today, however, there are no shrieking, prepubescent girls to share my glee: It’s just me, Roger and Nick, talking about the reemergence of Duran Duran. My first instinct is to run, screaming, through the house-then speed-dial my friends, like I did every time MTV aired the “Rio” video back in 1981. I’m talking to Nick Rhodes and Roger Taylor.
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