Post by Taylorholic78 on Dec 3, 2005 21:14:10 GMT -5
This is the article from La Nacion newspaper from Argentina about the guys and that me, your friendly neighboorhood adminstrator and Spanish speaker, has translated to you all : :biggrin:
www.lanacion.com.ar/entretenimientos/Nota.asp?nota_id=760602
Return to The Eighties
Duran Duran heads the 2nd Edition of Personal Fest
Definitely, the 80’s are back. The 2nd Personal Fest brings Duran Duran and Simple Minds and an audience of two generations dying to see them. At one side, the ones who grew up listening to Simon LeBon singing “Hungry Like The Wolf”, watching the “first” Madonna, the one of “Like A Virgin”, dressing up with suit and t-shirt just like Don Johnson on “Miami Vice’; at the other side, the ones who came with great hairdos via the typical 80’s synthesizers of Scissor Sisters and Fischerspooner. Following the avoidance and the jokes in the 90’s, now everybody seems to love that decade. Plus, the return of Duran Duran’s original line-up seems to have been extracted from an episode of the “A-Team”, when they must drop their vacation to start a new mission.
“The idea of the reunion, I believe, was already on our minds…” states the lead singer, Simon LeBon, from his home in London. – “In addition, neither me or Nick had really liked the things we had done the last few years. I mentioned to Nick about my idea of the reunion and he got interested. So I called John, soon Andy and Roger (the three Taylors) joined the idea and when we realized the band was back together. Some days before Andy had phoned us, from his place in Ibiza. “One day, I answered the phone and it was Simon and John, saying that they were in Los Angeles together. Say yes now, if you want to go back making music together.”
Time passes and the influences are new. LeBon and Andy Taylor love Franz Ferdinand, are surprised with the 80’s look of Fischerspooner and are pride of their so-called children, Scissor Sister and The Killers, says the lead singer. “When I listen to all of them, I listen to the 80’s and I am proud of the influence that Duran Duran had on their music. This is the true achievement and makes us feel a part of rock history.
If something has changed since 16 years ago when the original five member split up, it is their behaviour during the tours. Andy laughs about it. “I believe the big difference between the past tours and this one is that we are older.” Says the guitar player with sincerity.
For the lead singer, the reunion tour surpasses the ones from the 80’s when the hysteria around and the media compared them to Beatlemania. “At that time we didn’t pay much attention, we were thinking about the concert after-party” comments LeBon. “On stage we couldn’t hear anything we were playing, there was always a lot of noise from the audience and the direction of the show wasn’t great. Now our staff is fantastic, we play stronger and we don’t think about the afterparty because we have to rest for the next day’s concert."
After the series of phone calls and meetings, LeBon, Rhodes and the three Taylors went back to France in search of inspiration. Some months later, they already had the songs from “Astronaut” which was released in 2004 and surpasses the latest releases by the band, “Medazzaland” (97) and “Pop Trash” (2002). Soon they were selling shows in the United Kingdom and by the beginning of that tour, the SOLD OUT sign was on the ticket offices in Japan.
If now the world has left its hostility towards the 80’s, fed before by the “grunge years” and the terrain was then being prepared for the return of the “Fab Five” just like Rolling Stones magazine had named them by the days of “Rio” (82) and “Seven and The Ragged Tiger” (83). “It always happens, every time a new decade starts, the most significant bands from the past one suffer the consequences” laments Andy Taylor. “ What is good for some certain period of time, isn’t good for a different one, with time , everything comes back again, breaks happen. This last one has to do with electronic music, with the idea that a single person can make music just by using a computer. This also took its own learning time and time passed until a lot of people met with us but our records were always ready to be listened whenever they wanted.“
Not all the changes are positive and the trend in forming a band just by putting a competition on TV is very distant from the reason that this British band has formed, the old way: 2 of them, Nick Rhodes and John Taylor, put an ad in the very prestigious magazine Melody Maker and the other 3 replied to those ads. “What happens on those TV shows isn’t the reality.” LeBon resents. “This is show business and there’s a big difference between that and the world of rock. I like the musicians who got together because they have something to say and not because they just wanted to be famous…”
www.lanacion.com.ar/entretenimientos/Nota.asp?nota_id=760602
Return to The Eighties
Duran Duran heads the 2nd Edition of Personal Fest
Definitely, the 80’s are back. The 2nd Personal Fest brings Duran Duran and Simple Minds and an audience of two generations dying to see them. At one side, the ones who grew up listening to Simon LeBon singing “Hungry Like The Wolf”, watching the “first” Madonna, the one of “Like A Virgin”, dressing up with suit and t-shirt just like Don Johnson on “Miami Vice’; at the other side, the ones who came with great hairdos via the typical 80’s synthesizers of Scissor Sisters and Fischerspooner. Following the avoidance and the jokes in the 90’s, now everybody seems to love that decade. Plus, the return of Duran Duran’s original line-up seems to have been extracted from an episode of the “A-Team”, when they must drop their vacation to start a new mission.
“The idea of the reunion, I believe, was already on our minds…” states the lead singer, Simon LeBon, from his home in London. – “In addition, neither me or Nick had really liked the things we had done the last few years. I mentioned to Nick about my idea of the reunion and he got interested. So I called John, soon Andy and Roger (the three Taylors) joined the idea and when we realized the band was back together. Some days before Andy had phoned us, from his place in Ibiza. “One day, I answered the phone and it was Simon and John, saying that they were in Los Angeles together. Say yes now, if you want to go back making music together.”
Time passes and the influences are new. LeBon and Andy Taylor love Franz Ferdinand, are surprised with the 80’s look of Fischerspooner and are pride of their so-called children, Scissor Sister and The Killers, says the lead singer. “When I listen to all of them, I listen to the 80’s and I am proud of the influence that Duran Duran had on their music. This is the true achievement and makes us feel a part of rock history.
If something has changed since 16 years ago when the original five member split up, it is their behaviour during the tours. Andy laughs about it. “I believe the big difference between the past tours and this one is that we are older.” Says the guitar player with sincerity.
For the lead singer, the reunion tour surpasses the ones from the 80’s when the hysteria around and the media compared them to Beatlemania. “At that time we didn’t pay much attention, we were thinking about the concert after-party” comments LeBon. “On stage we couldn’t hear anything we were playing, there was always a lot of noise from the audience and the direction of the show wasn’t great. Now our staff is fantastic, we play stronger and we don’t think about the afterparty because we have to rest for the next day’s concert."
After the series of phone calls and meetings, LeBon, Rhodes and the three Taylors went back to France in search of inspiration. Some months later, they already had the songs from “Astronaut” which was released in 2004 and surpasses the latest releases by the band, “Medazzaland” (97) and “Pop Trash” (2002). Soon they were selling shows in the United Kingdom and by the beginning of that tour, the SOLD OUT sign was on the ticket offices in Japan.
If now the world has left its hostility towards the 80’s, fed before by the “grunge years” and the terrain was then being prepared for the return of the “Fab Five” just like Rolling Stones magazine had named them by the days of “Rio” (82) and “Seven and The Ragged Tiger” (83). “It always happens, every time a new decade starts, the most significant bands from the past one suffer the consequences” laments Andy Taylor. “ What is good for some certain period of time, isn’t good for a different one, with time , everything comes back again, breaks happen. This last one has to do with electronic music, with the idea that a single person can make music just by using a computer. This also took its own learning time and time passed until a lot of people met with us but our records were always ready to be listened whenever they wanted.“
Not all the changes are positive and the trend in forming a band just by putting a competition on TV is very distant from the reason that this British band has formed, the old way: 2 of them, Nick Rhodes and John Taylor, put an ad in the very prestigious magazine Melody Maker and the other 3 replied to those ads. “What happens on those TV shows isn’t the reality.” LeBon resents. “This is show business and there’s a big difference between that and the world of rock. I like the musicians who got together because they have something to say and not because they just wanted to be famous…”
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