“Over 40 years I’ve been working,” said Le Bon during the band’s induction speech. In 2022, Duran Duran was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. ‘Future Past’ and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fameĭuran Duran released their 15th album, Future Past in 2021, featuring a number of special guests and producers, including Moroder. [RELATED: Duran Duran Announces New Feature-Length Docu-Concert Film ‘A Hollywood High’ Into the 1990s, Duran released three more albums and hits “Come Undone” and “Ordinary World.” 1, “The Reflex,” was followed by “A View to a Kill,” which was featured on the soundtrack of the 1985 James Bond film of the same name. More hits followed for Duran throughout the ’80s and ’90s. Off their breakthrough “Girls on Film” in 1981 through “Hungry Like a Wolf” and “Rio” off their second album ( Rio), Duran Duran accompanied each with eye-popping music videos, glamming and sexing up the music television (MTV) generation. The Rum Rummer is also where Duran Duran wrote their first song, “ Sound of Thunder,” which appeared on their first album. The local nightclub in their hometown of Birmingham, England was where the band would regularly rehearse, work, perform, and later enlist venue owners, The Berrow Brothers (Paul and Michael), to become their manager. On July 16, 1980, Duran Duran played their first show together at The Rum Runner. To this day, a majority of the band’s albums are credited as “all tracks written by Duran Duran.” “By the time came on board, we’d already got the sound together, and that kind of set the template for how we approached songwriting,” John Taylor told American Songwriter in 2021. The band had already formulated a sound they called their own “punk Moroder”- an homage to their hero, the electronic pioneer Giorgio Moroder - and singer Simon Le Bon was another missing piece of Duran Duran. Already formed by 1978 with keyboardist Nick Rhodes and bassist John Taylor, a year later drummer Roger Taylor joined, followed by guitarist Andy Taylor.
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