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  • May 5, 2005

    Still Pretty

    Two decades after "Rio," Duran Duran are playing arenas and making housewives quiver

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    Red Carpet Massacre

    Duran Duran throw-ing down with Timbaland? Creamed jeans are made of this! The New Wave legends just became eligible for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (cough) and have a cracking new album to celebrate the latest stage of their artistic journey (rasp). Simon Le Bon, John Taylor and Nick Rhodes...

    2007 RS: 3of 5 Stars

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Biography

Duran Duran represents a turning point in the sexual history of new wave: Girls pulled their hair and screamed, while boys complained that they were fascist pop puppets taking up valuable airtime that rightfully belonged to Black Flag. But the girls were right, as they always are. The Fab Five combined New Romantic synths, disco bass lines, flash guitar, wedge haircuts, and a host of art-glam pret...

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