Duran Duran

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Duran Duran in 2006
Origin	Birmingham, England
Genre(s)	Rock New Wave New Romantic
Years active	1978–present
Label(s)	EMI / Capitol Records Hollywood Records Epic Records
Website	Duran Duran Official Website Duran Duran Official Fan Community

Duran Duran are an English New Wave band notable for a long series of catchy, synthesizer-driven hit singles and vivid music videos. They were a leading band in the MTV-driven Second British Invasion of the United States, and the most commercially successful of the New Romantic bands. They are still often identified as an “Eighties band” despite continuous recording and chart success over their twenty-eight year history.

The band has sold well over 70 million records worldwide, and has had eighteen singles in the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and thirty in the Top 40 of the UK Singles Chart, including “Rio”, “Hungry Like the Wolf”, “Is There Something I Should Know?”, “The Reflex” and the James Bond theme “A View to a Kill” in the 1980s, “Ordinary World” and “Come Undone” in the early-1990s, and “Sunrise” and “What Happens Tomorrow” in the 2000s.^[1]

Duran Duran was created by Nick Rhodes (keyboards) and John Taylor (bass), with the later addition of Roger Taylor (drums), Andy Taylor (guitar), and Simon Le Bon (lead vocals); none of the Taylors are related. Guitarist Warren Cuccurullo was also a member of the band from 1989 to 2001, and drummer Sterling Campbell was a member from 1989 to 1991.

Although the group never disbanded, it went through several line-up changes over the years. The reunion of the original five members in the early 2000s created a stir among music media and the band’s fans. Duran Duran released Astronaut from the reunited line-up in 2004. Andy Taylor dropped out of the band in October 2006, but the band has continued recording their next album, which is expected to be released in mid-2007.