![]() “It’s a song about when one thing ends, another begins,” Le Bon said of the latter, in a set that was ultimately a celebration of their past, but a knowing nod to their future too, with work on their next album well underway. The band pleasingly ventured into newer territory too via Invisible and Give it all Up. Deep-cut Last Chance on the Stairway proved a surprise, as did opener Nightboat. Other songs still full of life were Girls on Film and joyous closer, Rio. “It saved the life of this band,” Le Bon said, adding that different audience interpretations of the song over the years have contributed to its longevity. The soaring Ordinary World was an emotive moment. Le Bon regularly twirled and stomped camply around the stage, even theatrically spraying water on to the front row at one point. ![]() Their love of performing – and each other – was evident throughout, like Le Bon frequently singing face-to-face with bassist John Taylor. It may have been four decades ago, but their New Romantic style of old showed no signs of waning: Rhodes donned his trademark gothy eyeliner, dramatic black suit and silver boots, while Le Bon wore sparkling white. It was as decadent and bombastic as you’d hope from the band who soundtracked the Eighties.ĭuring Is There Something I Should Know?, poppy throwbacks to early magazine covers filled the screens. Brilliant Bond song A View to a Kill showcased Le Bon’s note-perfect voice and was placed amid a run that included Wild Boys, Hungry like the Wolf and Notorious. Fans of the band in the front row during a concert held at Wembley Arena in London, England on December 19, 1983. Here are 21 photos of Duran Duran fans at their concerts from 1983 to 2022: 1. As Nick Rhodes’s still-futuristic-sounding-synths played the opening bars to Save a Prayer, phones lit up the arena “like the Milky Way”, as Le Bon put it, while a rendition of debut Planet Earth saw the Durannies erupt. Over the years, their fans have enjoyed seeing them live - and a lucky few making it to the front rows. This was one for the fans.Īnd what a celebration it was. “I think I got away with it.”įew in the 21,000-strong crowd cared as they filled the gaps anyway, singing along as passionately to this as to the stone-cold classics and deep cuts in what was an expansive, hit-packed celebration of 40 years in music. A few songs earlier, he’d forgotten the words to Anniversary – a standout from their excellent last album, Future Past. Jumping from venue to venue on the east side of the island, the three-date tour culminates at Ushuaa Ibiza with a full-band, outdoor concert as the sun goes. “Don’t worry if you don’t know the words, because it doesn’t matter – as I have already proved,” Duran Duran frontman Simon Le Bon joked with fans in Manchester's AO Arena last night, before the opening of Save A Prayer. ![]()
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