![]() “Hungry Like the Wolf,” which stalled at No. “Is There Something I Should Know” had Simon LeBon pleading, “Please, please tell me now” in a chorus that was pure ear candy. (Where Morley got the Sex Pistols self-comparison is beyond me.) They focused on upbeat, sometimes complex music based on Nick Rhodes’ synthesizers, John Taylor’s intricate bass playing and Roger Taylor’s pounding drums.Įverything they touched turned to gold. Even though they were treated as sex symbols by females worldwide, the band worked hard to create infectious pop music that was based in New Romanticism but at times bordered on funk. Like Sheffield, I could not hide my admiration for Duran Duran. Perhaps they felt threatened by Duran Duran because their girlfriends fawned over them a few tough guys were probably even attracted to them. ![]() Still, all those guys who were Journey fans did not hide their dislike for the fashion-conscious, makeup-wearing quintet, who admittedly stole the look from glam rockers such as David Bowie and the New York Dolls. Even Nick Rhodes, who still sports lipstick and mascara in his late 50s, was married and has had several long-term relationships with women. And if you really want to know, no one in Duran Duran has ever announced that they were gay. They were partly cover boys, and that made the male crowd instantly dislike them if not because they were losing their girlfriends’ attention to them, then because they didn’t want to seem gay (which was still taboo in the early 1980s). “They fancied themselves as not so much the made-up boy band they clearly were…but as Peel-listening pop conceptualists mixing the Sex Pistols with Chic.”Įven music critic Rob Sheffield, in his book Talking to Girls About Duran Duran, admits that even though he’s a Duran Duran fan, he is pretty sure “Duran Duran would cease to exist if girls ever stopped talking about them.” Yes, girls fawned over the group during the early 1980s, buying up issues of Tiger Beat with Simon LeBon, Nick Rhodes and the three Taylors’ mugs all over them, tending to lend credence to Morley and Sheffield’s assertions. “I hated them from the point of view of a rock critic taking pop seriously, even when it was just for fun,” he wrote. In 2012, The Guardian music journalist Paul Morley expressed his hatred for Duran Duran, claiming that he had always despised the five-man band from Birmingham, England ever since they came on the scene in 1981.
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