Duran Duran are a New Wave music band, often classified into the
aggregate "80s rock" genre and notable for a long series of catchy,
synthesizer-driven hit singles and vivid music videos. They were the
most commercially successful of the New Romantic bands, and a
leading band in the MTV-driven Second British Invasion of the United
States. They are still often identified as an "Eighties band"
despite continuous recording and chart success over their
twenty-eight year history.
The band have sold well over 70 million records worldwide, and have
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", "Save a Prayer", "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.
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 the first album from the reunited line-up,
Astronaut, in 2004, and the next new album is expected to be
released in either late 2006 or early 2007.
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