Featuring exclusive interviews with the band and never-before-published photos from personal archives, Please Please Tell Me Now offers a definitive account of one of the last untold sagas in rock and roll history- a treat for diehard fans, new admirers, and music lovers of any age. Duran Duran and producer Mark Ronson envisioned the 2011 release All You Need Is Now as a sequel to the band’s 1982 effort Rio, but fans are better off approaching it as the imaginary effort that came after 1983’s Seven and the Ragged Tiger. With timeless hits like "Hungry Like the Wolf," "Girls on Film," "Rio," "Save a Prayer," and the bestselling James Bond theme in the series' history, "A View to Kill," Duran Duran has cemented its legacy in the pop pantheon-and with a new album and a worldwide tour on the way, they show no signs of slowing down anytime soon. Theres something about Duran Duran that still reverberates in the folk memory, even for people who werent around for their Imperial Phase. The band moved in the most glamorous circles: Nick Rhodes became close with Andy Warhol, Simon LeBon with Princess Diana, and Jonathan Taylor dated quintessential British bad girl Amanda De Cadanet. All You Need Is Now Lyrics: Its all up to you now find yourself in the moment / Go directly to the voodoo now the channel is open / Lose your head lose. Handsome, British, and young, it was Duran Duran that headlined Live Aid, not Bob Dylan or Led Zeppelin. Duran Duran Is There Something I Should Know: Please please tell me now, please please tell me now Please please tell me now, please please tell m. Davis traces their roots to the post war British malaise that spawned both the Sex Pistols and Duran Duran-two seemingly opposite music extremes. They are hailed for their singular blend of funk and pop, and they are the focus of the new Showtime documentary There’s Something. By the end of the decade, they had sold 60 million albums today, they've sold over 100 million albums-and counting. Duran Duran were one of the most successful bands of the 1980s. Their pretty boy looks made them the stars of fledgling MTV, but it was their brilliant musicianship that led to a string of number one hits. In Please Please Tell Me Now, bestselling rock biographer Stephen Davis tells the story of Duran Duran, the quintessential band of the 1980s.
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