Duran Duran

Duran Duran embody the adage "If you hang around long enough, you come back into fashion," as the recent rise in post-punk/dance-rock bands puts Simon Le Bon and co. at the head of a musical movement -- again. More polished and less angular than the current upstarts, Duran's music nonetheless bridges the generation gap.

In their decadent heyday, the pretty boys of Duran Duran were the crown princes of a
fledgling MTV, but drugs, hubris and a few dodgy albums reduced this supergroup to
has-beens. Now, twenty-one years since the original Fab Five's last studio album together,
the band's classic lineup has returned. The bleach jobs and posturing remain, but the band
has thankfully ditched the "Wild Boys" pomp rock that was its undoing. Instead, ... More >