Taylor: Onstage, we’re sometimes amused by the sincerity with which we play our early hits. That was me, that wasn’t me pretending to be David Bowie. When “ Planet Earth” was finished and my voice was in the mix, I could hear the power and the emotion in it. I imitated Bowie, Peter Gabriel and I wanted to sound a bit like Patti Smith as well.Īs soon as we started writing our own songs, the songs gave me the voice. Le Bon: I was trying to imitate David Bowie, I just did a very bad job of it.
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When singers begin, they’re more or less imitating a person or a few of them, and then they figure out how to find their own singing voice. I also want to ask about finding your voice. Le Bon: Plastic trousers, and a cool jacket, which I thought had big shoulder pads, but then I found out it’s just the way he walks. Le Bon: The picture I have is leather trousers. Turnabout’s fair play, what was he wearing? John has made fun of you for wearing pink leopard-print pants when you auditioned to be the new singer. I like anything with the word “new” in the title. It keeps me awake at night!ĭo Nick and John ever call you the new guy? Taylor: (laughs) And we remind him of that fact every day. Simon, you’re not an original member of the band. I came across Chai and we put them on the song “ More Joy.” I got into London rap, and that’s the reason Ivorian Doll is on “Hammerhead,” to have that really street-y sounding voice. Using Spotify and SoundCloud and Bandcamp, I started to find so much incredible music. Maybe we’ll have a little bit of quiet.” And that grows and grows until you reach the point where you’re only listening to the music you’re working on, and the stuff that got you into a band in the first place.
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The driver says, “What do you want to listen to on the radio?” And you say, “I’ve been listening to music all day. It starts off with you getting into a taxi after you’ve spent 12 hours in the studio.
There’s a syndrome that artists are vulnerable to. And she said, “Dad, you call yourself a musician? You don’t even like music, especially new music.” I’m like, “I’m gonna put Radio 4 on.” Radio 4 is mostly politics and issues. I came down to breakfast one morning and my daughter Tallulah was listening to BBC Radio 6, which is a sort of alternative music service. Le Bon: It awoke my interest in new music. I use it now to promote my radio show on SiriusXM. I got excited about Twitter for a while and then I just felt that I had more important things to do with my creativity. I think this year they were definitely punishing us for Brexit. One of the funniest things is the English obsession with “doing well” at Eurovision. Le Bon: (laughs) Oh, it’s hilarious, and occasionally you get really good songs on it. Taylor: There’s something we disagree on! Simon, you don’t tweet very often, but you went on a tweeting spree in May during the Eurovision music competition. Le Bon: Maybe we don’t want to answer that question. The two of you have such an easy rapport when you’re interviewed together. The whole point of Coldplay has been voicing the big, cringe-y emotions other musicians are too cool to voice. Music Review: Coldplay successfully turns to Max Martin for hits, but there’s no helping these lyrics Guitarist Andy left for a second time in 2006, and the absence of his power chords has left room for a renewed focus on electronic sounds.
The lineup that recorded “ Hungry Like the Wolf,” “Girls on Film,” “ Save a Prayer,” “ Union of the Snake,” “The Reflex” and “ A View to a Kill,” each a huge hit, reassembled in the early 2000s. In recent years, Duran has amply integrated guest musicians and producers into albums, and the credits on “Future Past” include Giorgio Moroder, Graham Coxon of Blur, Mark Ronson, Tove Lo, British rapper Ivorian Doll and Japanese pop group Chai. For an “’80s band,” they sure have lasted a long time. They’ve made great albums, uneven albums, terrible albums (1995’s “Thank You” included ill-advised versions of Bob Dylan and Public Enemy songs), and a snappy and snazzy new album, “Future Past,” their 15th. There’ve been plenty of changes to the lineup of Le Bon, keyboardist Nick Rhodes and the three unrelated Taylors (bassist John, guitarist Andy and drummer Roger), but they’ve never broken up. Unlike a lot of supposed 1980s bands, they had hits well into the ’90s (in the U.S.) and the 2000s (in the U.K.). Next year will be 40 years since the “Rio” video, and Duran Duran is still around.
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