Единственный альбом Опции

[Lily]

Аркадия у меня в мп-тришке и на болванке, перекатанной с той же мп-тришки. Поэтому большим открытием для меня было сегодня узнать, что в этом альбоме 'засветились' Грэйс Джонс, Стинг, Дэвид Гилмор и Хэрби Хэнкок.

Кстати, Грэйс Джонс - это Первая Майя из фильма A View To A Kill. Именно она сиганула с парашютом с Эйфелевой башни, этот момент есть и в клипе ДД.

[Lady Xenax]

Вот тут прикольная статья. Может кто не читал -






DURAN DURAN GIVES BIRTH TO ANOTHER SPINOFF BAND
Published: Monday, December 2, 1985

DENNIS HUNT
Simon Le Bon is not fat. Yet Duran Duran's lead singer cannot seem to shake that
porker image. Mention his name and
someone will invariably make a crack about his chubbiness. Old images die hard.

The 26-year-old Englishman certainly looked trim, topless and in a sweatsuit,
the other morning by the pool at a hotel here, accompanied by a small entourage
that included his tall, tan girlfriend, who was also topless and creating a mild
stir around the pool. 'Nice and quiet, huh?' asked Le Bon, surveying the pool
area and casually patting his flat stomach after polishing off a light
breakfast.

Le Bon was cool and businesslike. Being interviewed is obviously not one of his
favorite activities. But he realizes it is a good way to spread the word about
his new band, Arcadia, which features two other Duran Duran members, keyboardist
Nick Rhodes and drummer Roger Taylor.

A different sound

Arcadia's first single, Election Day, has made the Billboard Hot 100 Singles
chart. The band's debut album, So Red the Rose --
recorded in Paris with producer Alex Sadkin -- has hit most record stores. An
all-star lineup worked on it, including tenor sax player Andy MacKay, bassist
Mark Egan, percussionist Raphael de Jesus, guitarists Carlos Alomar, Pink
Floyd's David Gilmour, and Masami Tsuchiya.

Le Bon stressed the vast difference between Arcadia's music and Duran's
mainstream pop-rock: 'What we do in Arcadia is looser, less structured and more
moody and atmospheric than Duran's music. Some things on it are rather dark and
esoteric and done in a slower tempo, with jazz touches and Spanish touches here
and there. I'm singing a bit lower, too.'

Election Day, a danceable rock single, is atypical of the rest of the album. It
really sounds like Duran music gussied up with intricate instrumentals.

The second spinoff

Arcadia is not the first Duran spinoff band. John (bass) and Andy (guitar)
Taylor, two of the three unrelated Taylors in Duran, were first heard earlier
this year with Power Station, whose focus is funk-fueled hard rock. The group's
debut album, Power Station, sold more than a million copies and spawned two hit
singles, Some Like it Hot and Bang a Gong. Power Station, also featuring singer
Robert Palmer, bassist-producer Bernard Edwards and drummer Tony Thompson,
evolved after the two Duran
members guest-starred in sessions for a Thompson solo album.

Without Power Station there might not be an Arcadia. When John and Andy Taylor
were working on Power Station, that left the other three members with nothing to
do. 'We couldn't do any Duran projects with those two gone,' Le Bon said. 'Me,
Nick and Roger were left with a lot of time on our hands. So we formed this
band. Arcadia wasn't an answer to Power Station, it was our answer to boredom.'

No tour for Arcadia

Le Bon said there will not be an Arcadia tour. 'I'd like to, but there's no
time. If we did tour, it wouldn't be a normal tour. We'd do something very
theatrical, maybe something with dialogue and a story, maybe even a musical, but
definitely something very unconventional. But this is all fantasy. Arcadia won't
go on the road.'

Until early 1983, Duran Duran was just another popular British band that
couldn't make it in America. But the MTV boom changed all that. Suddenly good
looks were nearly as important as the music. When those five cute faces were
beamed into the living rooms of millions of teen-age girls, the result was
instant Duran-mania. With highly commercial pop-rock songs such as Hungry Like
the Wolf, The Reflex, A View to a Kill and Wild Boys, the band has sold millions
of records.

A critical failure

To most critics, Duran is musically worthless. Just a bunch of pretty boys, the
critics scowl, making it on looks rather than talent. In music circles, it is
often suggested that both Power Station and Arcadia are attempts by Duran
members to win the credibility that eludes them in the parent group.

Le Bon's response to that suggestion was blunt and haughty: 'Rubbish! You have
credibility when critics like you. That isn't our goal. I'd rather have an
audience full of screaming girls and no credibility at all.' The next Duran
album will be recorded next year. What will be the effect of the members having
worked in other bands?

'Well, when we did the Live Aid show, I noticed that John and Andy were behaving
differently on stage from the way I had remembered.' said Le Bon. 'They had been
on tour with Power Station. They looked shocked to see me up there singing,
rather than Michael des Barres (the Power Station vocalist). 'It's hard to say
how the two camps will blend together. It could work very well or it could be a
real mess.'