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[DDfans]

Чего-то пришло мне по почте сегодня. Переведя через свой стилус вроде как хорошие новости оказываются :)

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Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 16:18:05 -0800
From: theprocess <theprocess@trusttheprocess.com>
To: Multiple recipients of TTP
Subject: The Process 01.09.03
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Happy New Year! We hope you all had a safe, wonderful holiday season!

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News-wise, John will be heading back over to London next week to work with the rest of the Durans on more music for a few weeks. Also, British Vogue will be doing their first ever music issue, photographing various artists with various themes and have asked Duran Duran to be a part of it! The shoot will most likely take place at the end of the month, with the magazine coming out later in the spring. We will keep you up to date as we get more news on this.... as well as anything else!

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Cheers!
http://www.trusttheprocess.com/
http://www.johntayloronline.com/

[Lady Xenax]

Интервью с Джонни. Интересное. Особенно последние фразы.


Original lineup of Duran Duran performing after 18-year break

ALEX VEIGA, Associated Press Writer Friday, July 11, 2003

(07-11) 17:16 PDT LOS ANGELES (AP) --

The members of British pop group Duran Duran were barely out of their teens when their glossy music videos and danceable hits like 'Hungry Like The Wolf' and 'Rio' ruled the airwaves and MTV in the early 1980s.

The grind of nonstop recording and touring, pressures of celebrity and disputes among band members and their handlers took their toll on the five young men, and after just three studio albums, the band split up following a tense performance at the 1985 Live Aid concert in Philadelphia.

Now, a decade since a pared-down version of the group scored a bona fide hit, Duran Duran's founding members are in their 40s and taking their first steps back on stage together in nearly 18 years, with an eye on recapturing a glimmer of their past glory.

'I feel this band, the five of us as musicians playing together, never really made any mistakes musically,' bass player John Taylor said this week in a phone interview from Fukuoka, Japan. 'I'm really proud of the records that we made and I felt that we could actually pick up where we left off and be relevant.'

Taylor and the other band members -- frontman Simon LeBon, drummer Roger Taylor, keyboard player Nick Rhodes and guitarist Andy Taylor -- are following up a handful of shows in Japan this week with performances in Southern California and Nevada next week.

The band regrouped in the fall of 2001 and has been in and out of the studio ever since. They don't have a record deal or a finished album, but decided to set out on tour to test the new material and gear themselves up for completing a new record.

'We're not going to bore people, we're not going to come out and play all the new songs we've written,' John Taylor said. 'But there's enough of the new songs to show you that the band is still a work in progress, that it's not a nostalgia trip.'

That may not matter much to fans, whose nostalgia for the band's early material over the years has driven sales of two greatest-hit compilations far ahead of much of the band's 1990s albums.

Despite an older fan base, the one-time 'Tiger Beat' magazine regulars will find an audience, said Jim Mazza, who was president of Capitol Records, the band's label.

'The appetite will be out there for them,' Mazza said. 'They certainly had a lot of hits, enough to carry the live show.'

Duran Duran formed in the late 1970s in Birmingham, England, at a time when a post-punk music scene characterized by synthesizer sounds and a polished, modern look was beginning to take hold in the United Kingdom.

The emergence of MTV in 1982 helped boost the band to superstardom only a year after its first self-titled album was released. The band's good looks and sexy music videos helped foment a fan frenzy, particularly among teenage girls.

After a world tour in 1984, the group took a break from itself and splintered into two side projects. By the time Duran Duran was called on to play a 15-minute set during Live Aid, the band was all but over.

'There was no love there. The love had dried up,' John Taylor said. 'And by the time we got to Live Aid, we were shattered.'

Burned out from touring and tired of the limelight, Roger Taylor left the band first, retiring from the music business almost entirely for 15 years. Andy Taylor left next to set out on his own.

In interviews at the time, he cited qualms with the musical direction the band was taking and frustration over the group's emphasis on its pretty boy image. In one 1987 interview, John Taylor chalked up the guitarist's departure to insecurity and a lack of love for the band.

The remaining members carried on, but failed to sustain the fevered following of their previous records.

Andy Taylor now says frustration with band management and the record company drove him to leave, not personal problems with his bandmates.

'The bad blood was never really inter-band stuff. It was circumstances around the band that caused it all,' he said. 'I tried to blame the music. It was the music (that) was getting better by the time we split up.'

In 1997, John Taylor left the band to handle problems at home in Los Angeles.

'I was having troubles, really, in my personal life as well, and I really needed to concentrate on (myself),' he said. 'I lost the passion for the band, I just did. I stopped being a fan, for a while.'

Rhodes and LeBon, along with former Missing Persons guitarist Warren Cuccurullo, went ahead with recording two more albums, the last one released in 2000 to lackluster sales.

Mending fences occurred slowly, beginning in 1993, when the band saw a flash of its '80s mainstream success with the hit 'Ordinary World.'

Andy Taylor went to see to see the band perform for the first time. Roger Taylor played on a track of the band's 1995 cover song record, 'Thank You.'

The band considered reuniting for a Millennium tour, then dropped the idea. The timing clicked a year later.

The band members want to record three more albums and then hang it up.

'By the time we're done with this run we'll know what's happening next,' John Taylor said. 'Against tremendous odds, we're doing it all and we're doing it with our own hair.'