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Simon le bon11/2/2022 ![]() ![]() "It's natural that people would associate us with the 80s. "Doesn't bother me, really," he says, sounding bothered. He keeps putting out new albums that he's sweated blood over, but most people are more interested in the records he was making 25 years ago. Perhaps this is another reason why Le Bon sounds permanently defensive. Lacking the raw nihilistic energy of the former and the coked-out elegance of the latter, it was more a case of A Flock of Seagulls meets Simply Red.Īnd, though the band are still touring the world and putting out records, their heyday was quite clearly the early 80s. Le Bon has often said that Duran Duran wanted to sound like "the Sex Pistols meets Chic" but, sadly, they never managed it. Take away a few brilliant early pop songs and you have a band that sold more but mattered less than most bands of the post-punk era. In my view, Duran Duran have always been a bit crap. He's had nearly three decades of journalists patronising his band, so now he grits his teeth and makes himself sound so benign, so gentle, so polite that only a churlish swine would give him a hard time. My theory is that Le Bon hates journalists, and this manifests in him being impressively passive-aggressive in interviews. So why does he sound so docile, so condescending, so un-rock star? He should be confident in his achievements by now, surely. ![]() This man has scaled the heights of pop stardom, made lorry loads of cash, sold out Madison Square Garden and been mobbed by armies of lust-addled teenage girls. You know, the guy that married the supermodel, the guy who sang the most excellent "Girls on Film" and the appalling "Rio", the guy who once wore red PVC trousers and Errol Flynn pirate shirts and sported a haircut that looked like a honey-blonde cat had gone to sleep on his head. ![]() I'm listening to Simon Le Bon, front man of 1980s yacht-rock band, Duran Duran. SIMON LE BON TVIt feels as though I'm listening to the presenter of a children's TV show, or perhaps a meek village vicar.īut I'm not. He speaks very slowly, as if I'm not very bright, and his speech has a lilting sing-song rhythm, as if I have a very short attention span and he's trying to keep me interested. The flamboyant lead singer of Duran Duran survived a sailing disaster but he can't escape the 1980s.Ī man with a slightly posh English accent is talking to me with an exaggerated sense of tolerance and patience. ![]()
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