Duran Duran front man Simon Le Bon on a life of great videos, great gigs, and, yes, great hair
“I don’t have a retrospective mind. I tend to want somebody else to do all that stuff and then tell me how great I am.” Photo: Fin Costello/Redferns Simon Le Bon is one of New Wave’s beautifully coiffed magic men, serving as the erotic bard of sorts throughout Duran Duran’s celestial ascent in the ’80s, beaming down into Tiger Beat by way of the cosmos, if you will.
If I can nerd out about one of your influences for a moment, one of my favorite parts from the 2019 Rock Hall ceremony was when you and John inducted Roxy Music and praised their “pulp science-fiction” sound. Can you tell me more about how they helped shape your musical sensibility? I appreciate your perspective on it. Musicians react in all sorts of ways to the idea of the Rock Hall.
Yeah, that connects well to the music-videology you all embraced from the beginning. It was never about commerce, but artistry. Right now, you take it all for granted that somebody can change into somebody else, and that you can see space and spaceships and things flying around, because we’ve gotten used to the technology, to the CGI. But back then, people didn’t know what to think when they saw this massive wave coming out of the top of the screen.
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