Not only did they have incredible songs, but their style pretty much led the outfit choices of most young adults throughout the 80s. Andrews introduced Taylor to Albert “Cubby” Broccoli, producer of the Bond movies. You’ll hear music from the last six decades amongst the latest news, sport, travel, entertainment and fantastic competitions. This would be the last time we played together in two decades. (It’s a 7.) NICK SAYS HE WOULD HAVE HAPPILY PLAYED MUSICALLY ON THE TRACK BUT ONLY PARTICIPATED WITH THE SING ALONG. After Duran Duran's third album Seven and the Ragged Tiger, the members of the band took a planned short hiatus, going into two projects. "); In the years that followed, Duran Duran notched a few more American top-10 hits. for the Christmas market. Broccoli took the bait, and he set up a meeting between Taylor and Bond-movie composer John Barry. British rockers Duran Duran took a 20-year break from the music industry following a disastrous performance at 1985's Live Aid concert. He added: “I think the more people involved in politics the better. The idea of the video is to edit the group into the movie’s storyline, having them play sneaky spy roles in the Eiffel Tower shootout. Like a rolling stone which actually did gather moss, this first single would be imitated by American celebrities and be followed with the transatlantic concert spectaculars of Live Aid. In one sense, the Band Aid project was a revolutionary act. The record was released on 3 December and went straight to No. The song was the most confident attempt at dance-funk that they’d yet made, and it peaked at #2. The members of Duran Duran were pretty fractured, but they had an opportunity they couldn’t pass up. By a strange coincidence, not only was it Roger Moore’s last outing at the suave super-spy, it was also the last single to feature the classic five-piece line-up for almost 20 years. Chic’s Bernard Edwards, who’d worked with the Power Station on their first album, co-produced “A View To A Kill” with Duran Duran and with Madonna/Danzing mixing engineer Jason Corsaro. What could be more rock and roll than striding into a studio with epoch-defining bohemians and recording a hit single in a matter of hours which would raise millions of pounds, save lives, and expose the prevaricating impotence of the political elite? Nov 25 2009 by David Williamson, Western Mail, Twenty-five years ago today, a group of musicians answered Bob Geldof’s call to record a single in support of Africans hit by famine. Their photogenic looks didn’t hurt them either. Since 1985, only two Bond themes have made it into the top 10. To mark Simon Le Bon's 62nd birthday today (27th October), the Duran Duran boys posted a super suave snap of him with the caption, 'It's midnight in the UK - happy happy birthday Simon!!! Join The Mailing List. 20 Essential Late ’90s Underground Rap Songs. The band co-wrote the song with John Barry, who was 51 when the single hit #1. The Brummy boys may have risen to fame over 40 years ago, but they're still going strong - and were even working on a new album before the global pandemic hit. The group were a leading band in the MTV-driven Second British Invasion of the US in the 1980s. The cultural commentator Clive James marvelled at this ardent spirit who had set up giant amplifiers in the public square. gehört inzwischen zu den Weihnachtsliedklassikern, die in vielen Ländern zur Weihnachtszeit in die Charts zurückkehren. Thanks! The Power Station made a sort of clattering, funk-indebted hard rock, and they landed two singles in the top 10. The band scored their first UK No. 12 in the UK charts, it was the infamous video for ‘Girls On Film’ that helped them crack the Top 5. They’d already scored a run of top-10 singles, and they finally got to #1 with the big and overstated dance-pop track “The Reflex.” After that came the 1984 live album Arena and the tacked-on studio single “The Wild Boys,” which peaked at #2. It almost sounded like a real Bond theme. This is a sentiment shared by Swansea-based historian Peter Stead. Duran Duran is a British pop/rock band formed in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Band Aid: Do they know how much they changed the world? There is no doubt that celebrity campaigning has grown smarter since the scruffy but heady days of 1984. Duran Duran never stopped touring and recording. (“Some Like It Hot” peaked at #6. Roger Moore was my first James Bond, and I have a particular affection for the guy’s eyebrow-arching smugness, but he was about ready to be done with the series. He watched with astonishment earlier this year when the actress Joanna Lumley forced the UK Government to welcome Gurkha veterans to Britain. Two subsequent re-recordings of the song to raise further money for charity also topped the charts. (“Live And Let Die” is an 8. try { Into the fire! Home of Rick Jackson at Breakfast on weekdays from 5.30am. Former guitarist Andy Taylor claims the charity concert opened his eyes to failing friendships within the band. So maybe it was a coup that the producers convinced Duran Duran to do that theme song. Did he work on any of the music for "Do They Know Its Christmas?" Band Aid was a British and Irish charity supergroup, founded in 1984 by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia by releasing the record "Do They Know It's Christmas?" Geldof and U2’s Bono, two Dubliners, went on to tackle some of the most torturous structural problems which lock millions in poverty when they championed debt relief with the Jubilee 2000 movement. The original classic line-up reunited in 2003 for a successful world tour, and the following year they released ‘Astronaut,’ their most successful album since 1983’s ‘Seven And The Ragged Tiger’. Wave 105 is owned by Bauer Radio Limited. LIKE a mountain exploding and transforming the landscape in an instant, music which will never leave the radio or escape our memory can erupt into our world without warning. It’s the one where Christopher Walken plays a Nazi genetic experiment, an ubermesch supervillain with a scheme to destroy Silicon Valley. Pop stars, people whose job descriptions involved engaging in acts of public hedonism for the pleasure of the masses, were suddenly doing the work of monks and nuns. He got bored with the project and backed out.