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DURAN DURAN GIVES BIRTH TO ANOTHER SPINOFF BAND
Published: Monday, December 2, 1985
DENNIS HUNT
Simon Le Bon is not fat. Yet Duran Duran's lead singer cannot seem to shake that porker image. Mention his name and
someone will invariably make a crack about his chubbiness. Old images die hard.
The 26-year-old Englishman certainly looked trim, topless and in a sweatsuit, the other morning by the pool at a hotel here, accompanied by a small entourage that included his tall, tan girlfriend, who was also topless and creating a mild stir around the pool. "Nice and quiet, huh?" asked Le Bon, surveying the pool area and casually patting his flat stomach after polishing off a light breakfast.
Le Bon was cool and businesslike. Being interviewed is obviously not one of his favorite activities. But he realizes it is a good way to spread the word about his new band, Arcadia, which features two other Duran Duran members, keyboardist Nick Rhodes and drummer Roger Taylor.
A different sound
Arcadia's first single, Election Day, has made the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart. The band's debut album, So Red the Rose --
recorded in Paris with producer Alex Sadkin -- has hit most record stores. An all-star lineup worked on it, including tenor sax player Andy MacKay, bassist Mark Egan, percussionist Raphael de Jesus, guitarists Carlos Alomar, Pink Floyd's David Gilmour, and Masami Tsuchiya.
Le Bon stressed the vast difference between Arcadia's music and Duran's mainstream pop-rock: "What we do in Arcadia is looser, less structured and more moody and atmospheric than Duran's music. Some things on it are rather dark and esoteric and done in a slower tempo, with jazz touches and Spanish touches here and there. I'm singing a bit lower, too."
Election Day, a danceable rock single, is atypical of the rest of the album. It really sounds like Duran music gussied up with intricate instrumentals.
The second spinoff
Arcadia is not the first Duran spinoff band. John (bass) and Andy (guitar) Taylor, two of the three unrelated Taylors in Duran, were first heard earlier this year with Power Station, whose focus is funk-fueled hard rock. The group's debut album, Power Station, sold more than a million copies and spawned two hit singles, Some Like it Hot and Bang a Gong. Power Station, also featuring singer Robert Palmer, bassist-producer Bernard Edwards and drummer Tony Thompson, evolved after the two Duran
members guest-starred in sessions for a Thompson solo album.
Without Power Station there might not be an Arcadia. When John and Andy Taylor were working on Power Station, that left the other three members with nothing to do. "We couldn't do any Duran projects with those two gone," Le Bon said. "Me, Nick and Roger were left with a lot of time on our hands. So we formed this band. Arcadia wasn't an answer to Power Station, it was our answer to boredom."
No tour for Arcadia
Le Bon said there will not be an Arcadia tour. "I'd like to, but there's no time. If we did tour, it wouldn't be a normal tour. We'd do something very theatrical, maybe something with dialogue and a story, maybe even a musical, but definitely something very unconventional. But this is all fantasy. Arcadia won't go on the road."
Until early 1983, Duran Duran was just another popular British band that couldn't make it in America. But the MTV boom changed all that. Suddenly good looks were nearly as important as the music. When those five cute faces were beamed into the living rooms of millions of teen-age girls, the result was instant Duran-mania. With highly commercial pop-rock songs such as Hungry Like the Wolf, The Reflex, A View to a Kill and Wild Boys, the band has sold millions of records.
A critical failure
To most critics, Duran is musically worthless. Just a bunch of pretty boys, the critics scowl, making it on looks rather than talent. In music circles, it is often suggested that both Power Station and Arcadia are attempts by Duran members to win the credibility that eludes them in the parent group.
Le Bon's response to that suggestion was blunt and haughty: "Rubbish! You have credibility when critics like you. That isn't our goal. I'd rather have an audience full of screaming girls and no credibility at all." The next Duran album will be recorded next year. What will be the effect of the members having worked in other bands?
"Well, when we did the Live Aid show, I noticed that John and Andy were behaving differently on stage from the way I had remembered." said Le Bon. "They had been on tour with Power Station. They looked shocked to see me up there singing, rather than Michael des Barres (the Power Station vocalist). "It's hard to say how the two camps will blend together. It could work very well or it could be a real mess."
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