Duran Duran Biography

Nick Rhodes (keyboards):

“Eating is an inconvenience for me.”

 “If there’s one bad thing I’ve learned it’s that if you absolutely have to be somewhere by 6am, you don’t have to get out of bed until at least 11.”

 “So let’s talk about flowers and gardens and laughing velociraptors.” 

“That wretched boat in the Rio video. God, I hated that boat, wrecking my Anthony Price suit with all those dreadful waves splashing everywhere. Really! Tie the damn things up and have a couple of cocktails on them.”

“I’m sure I’m schizophrenic. The problem is I can’t tell the difference between which one’s which, which one is the real me.”

“Hey, don’t laugh at our car!”

John Taylor (bass):

“I’m not actually a musician. I prefer extortion, leather and hair products.”

“The band is like a box of Quality Streets, everyone is someone’s favourite.”

Simon Le Bon (lead vocals):

“I make sense sometimes, but not completely.”

“I’d spent my entire teenage years suffering one unrequited love affair after another. I was so shy I couldn’t even talk to girls. If I fancied them, I’d follow them home, but I didn’t have the guts to approach them.”

“That’s what a bit of ice cube on the nipple’ll do for you.”

Roger Taylor (drums):

“You can’t scratch your bum in public anymore.“

Andy Taylor (guitar):

“I’d always felt like being weird, but there was no-one to be weird with in Newcastle.”

“John wears ladies’ knickers.”