I sometimes compare playing a two-hour show with going fifteen rounds with Mike Tyson, but you never get the chance to knock him out!Ī scientist in the U.K. On the other hand it can be a grueling experience. On the one hand, I miss the camaraderie that’s built up between the members of the band and the crew, the familiar faces of the fans who follow us from city to city, and the feeling of perpetual motion. There’s always a bittersweet feeling when you come off the road after such a long tour. We’ve been on and off the road for around fourteen months, starting off in NYC with a ten-night stint on Broadway but eventually taking in Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Rim, Europe, South America, Central America, North America (twice), and Canada. Tickets start at $55.Hi there, Roger Taylor here (no, not the one from Queen, the other one!) and I’ve just come off the Duran Duran Red Carpet Massacre world tour. Wednesday, April 5, at Hard Rock Live, 1 Seminole Way, Hollywood 86. I guess if people can kind of pick up on that creativity and kind of reinvent it, I think it's a great thing.Ĩ p.m. It was a great period of time, I feel, the '80s, a fantastically creative period of time. It's the greatest form of flattery, I think, when people try to emulate or copy you. Where do you think Duran Duran fits into that? There's been a resurgence of '80s nostalgia, perhaps tied to the current political turmoil. The collaborations really worked on this record. I think also that when you're 18 months into a project, it's good to bring new blood into the studio and take it outside the four of us a little bit. One of the songs happened really quickly, "Pressure Off" that just kind of got the ball rolling with all of the collaborations. I think the first collaboration on the record was to get Nile Rogers to come play guitar with us. How did you get talent as diverse as Lindsay Lohan, John Frusciante, and Mark Ronson for Paper Gods ? We always say this time it's going to take us three months from start to finish and we're going to do it really quickly. I'm sure when we pick up the pen again for the next record. There's always been a certain amount of pain with making the records. It's never been a quick, easy process with Duran Duran. There's no such word as "perfection," but I don't think we're happy until it's something we really love as a band. I think there's a certain perfectionism that runs through the band. That's been the case since Seven and the Ragged Tiger, which is our third album. We always spend a long time making albums, to be honest with you. How did the production of Paper Gods stack up against the rest of the band's albums? We're explorers, and we're not afraid to go off-piste a little bit and explore new territory, and I think that keeps the audience interested. We're not one of these bands that stick to a formula. If you look at the next album, Seven and the Ragged Tiger, that was a very different album. It would have been very easy to keep making the Rio album year after year after year. We made the Rio album in 1983, and everyone at the time said that was kind of like a seminal piece of work. I think we've never been afraid of change that's been the biggest thing. How does the band stay relevant after 30 years? "We're not one of these bands that stick to a formula. It's an exciting place for us to be coming, definitely. I think it was one of the very first places in my memory that really got the spirit of Duran Duran that seemed to resonate with Miami and Florida and all that. Florida has always been a big market for us, actually. New Times : Have you performed in South Florida before? Ahead of their stop at Hard Rock Live next Wednesday, New Times talked to drummer Roger Taylor about the band's latest release and how Duran Duran remains popular after 30 years. Now the bandmates are touring to support their 14th studio album, Paper Gods. The band's music evolved, but one thing that remained is Duran Duran's affinity for the experimental, in both music and visuals. Songs such as "Hungry Like the Wolf" and "Girls on Film" came to define the era.īut while they rode their wave of popularity throughout the rest of the '80s, Le Bon and crew restructured their sound toward the end of the decade when hip-hop and alternative became the music of the times. The five-person act fronted by singer Simon Le Bon emerged in the early '80s as part of the New Wave movement that bifurcated from punk rock in the following decade, Duran Duran became one of the best-known bands in the world, achieving mainstream success in America and overseas with the 1984 album Rio and eventually selling more than 100 million records worldwide. If a Duran Duran show sounds like a throwback to the "Greed Is Good" era, well, you're half right.
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