For the ones that lost something or for the ones who just started to hear about them, let’s try to resume the most important steps of the life of Duran Duran.

Duran Duran was born in Birminghamin on 1978.
After various changes they reached the origlinal line-up at the beginning of 1979 with Simon le Bon on vocals, Nick Rhodes on Keyboards, John Taylor on bass, Andy Taylor on guitar and Roger Taylor on drums.
They began to play live shows in various clubs around B-gham and in a lot of universities performing their own-writing songs 'til two managers of a recording company noticed them and decided to produce their first single, "Planeth Earth" followed by their first album "Duran Duran". And success arrived immediately!!
The single sold more than 2,5 million of copies and this involved DD in a long tour across Europe 'til to arrive in America on 16th September 1981.
Riding success DD published a record a year: in 1982  The "Rio" album was published, their masterpiece for the most, and the single "Hungry like the wolf" made them international pop stars even in America  (As you can see this song is always played in all DD american shows).
In 1983 the single "Is there something I should Know" came out and it reached immediately the highest positions in the English and American Charts, followed on november of the same year, by the "Seven and the ragged tiger" album (the album dosen't contain this song on the tracks list).
In 1983 DD started a great world tour until the April 1984 and, during that, they wrote "The Wild Boys", the song that made them superstars even in Italy.
In November 1984 the live album "Arena" came out and in Italy it was "Duranmania". Everybody  still remember the isteria around the band appearence on the Sanremo Festival in february 1985.
In May 1985 the Fab Five wrote the main track of the 007 James Bond Film "A View to a Kill", the only 007 sound track to reach the #1 position in the charts so far. In July of the same year they played at Live Aid at JFK stadium In Philadelphia.
At the end of 1985 DD split up:Simon, Nick and Roger formed the"Arcadia" project and published  the album "So red the Rose" meanwhile John and Andy involved themselves in  "The Power Station" project, publishing  the album "The Power Station".
Few months later Roger Taylor and Andy Taylor left the band, causing a big desperation in millions of fans all over the world.
At the end of 1986 the "Notorious" album came out  featuring a new drummer, Steve Ferrone, and a new guitarist, Warren Cuccurullo. For this one it's the beginning of a long  collaboration with DD.
Finally in 1987 DD toured Italy playing a lot of gigs in many stadiums.
In 1988 they publish "The Big Thing" album and they toured Italy again and one of the 3 concerts in Milan was aired by TV.
In june 1989  they published "Decade", their first greatest hits, containing their best songs from 81 to 88 . The record was  launched by the single "Burning the ground" not included in the LP.
In 1990 Warren Cuccurullo became an official member of the band and in August the new LP "Liberty" came out, and it was the 1st Duran record to not reach the golden record.
After that a long period of relax and meditation followed, and in the Feb.1993 DD made their "Big Come Back" with the "Wedding Album" performing 2 acoustic live shows in Rome and Milan.
In 1995 they published "Thank you", a cover album that didn't reach a big success, even if it contained some great songs as  the single "Lay lady lay",  published in Europe but not in the rest of the world.
In the same year, the 1st  John Taylor's  solo album come out by an american trade mark, and in 1997 he decided to leave DD.
In 1997 DD published the"Medazzaland" album, edited only in America and Japan and that obtained a quite success.
In 1998  the 2nd "Greatest" album  was published, containg all their singles from 81 to 97, and it was followed by a UK tour  to celebrate the 20th year of activity of the band.
In 1999 a new greatest hits, called "Essential" was published followed by the double cd "Strange Behaviour", both anticipating the new album "Pop Trash" edited in may 2000.
The new album was published by thet Edel trade mark, but only a single was extracted by the album and not two as decided before. DD came back in Italy in the same year but only to partecipate to an MTV live show called "Sonic" recorded in Milan in front of 2000 people.
They also started a new tour and they played some shows even in East Europe. The "feelings" around the band were not so good and Warren decided to leave the band.
The "survivals" Simon and Nick had two choices: let DD die or put together the original members of the band.
Fortunatly, they decide to come back together writintg 32 new songs. 12 of these new songs became "Astronaut", the second masterpiece album of the band for the public opinion.
And it's also for that, that our website was born.
One more reason to keep close to our idols, giving the new generations the chance to  know them better.

Wild Boys Forever !!!