THE Duran Duran, The band which is still the first at the top of the Memorable international guests in the history of the Festivalreturns to Sanremo 2025 For a show (scheduled for the third evening, February 14) which marks the forty years since that time in 1985. A fundamental year in the history of pop and costume. At the center of the eighties, In fact, it corresponds to the maximum fame for the groupin the midst of Paninari, hedonism, the dictatorship of the look and the mass of the Duranian – That is, the hundred and hidden fans who stormed the Ariston. Strengthened by love for each member, summarized the following year in the film case I will marry Simon Le Bon.
Now – after a second time in 2008 – The Duran Duran are again guests of Sanremo. The city has changed, invaded by the marketing and pop -ups of the artists, but they have changed very much too. With a formation changed several times, dark periods and rebirths, and again oblivion, and with Italy in the heart, a country in which they have left a significant trace (they will be on tour in June after a very long absence a Rome and Milan, and Bari, in June).
Duran Duran: «We love Sanremo, it should be changed in We will doubt“
Arrived at the conference, Simon, Roger, John and Nick (no Andy who is fighting against prostate cancer) immediately spoke about Sanremo’s importance. So what does their performance mean in one of the most popular events in Italy, and why, according to them, is such a huge phenomenon? “We thought about it a lot, and we don’t have an answer,” says Simon dry. However, John came to help: «We love what we do, after 40 years from the first time here, we can say that we like Sanremo, perhaps so much that his name should be changed in We will doubt».
Simon Le Bon in Sanremo 2025. (Getty Images)
«We remember Pippo Baudo. Is it still around? “
But what do they remember about that Sanremo 1985? “I remember everything was crazy,” Simon goes back in time, “we just broken through in Italy, and hordes of kids chasing us. I also remember Pippo Baudo (said with a very funny accent, editor’s note), the presenter, is he still around?. Was the history of the ankle broken in the city? «Yes, he had taken a walk, and on the massive of the port I slipped between two rocks, breaking my foot. And I thought, the more I vodka I drink, the less it hurts me, but I drank too much ».
Of course Sanremo 2025 and Duran Duran are very different from 40 years ago, they say. Show, brands, phenomena are remembered above all for the moment when they explode. The story of the Festival is longin those years it was one of the places to go, it is still it is. And this can only make us happy.
The Duran Duran in Sanremo 2025: Roger Taylor, John Taylor, Simon Le Bon and Nick Rhodes. (Getty Images)
The secret of their duration?
About the long longevity of the Duran Duran, Simon and John spoke in different ways of a perfect amalgam. For Simon, this union is the result of “something secret that keeps us together. We love music very much, we do it very well, and there is no other way: We tried to do separate things, but they don’t work. Then we laugh a lot, also to fight stress. And we divide the Royalties equally ». Zero quarrels therefore.
John then added that: «What Simon tells It is chemistry, fundamental in every band band. One thing that is setting. For example, this year’s Grammy have not been rewarded bands, a rather peculiar thing, which perhaps describes the death of a certain type of group. Something that for us, born between seventy and eighty, we understand very well». An opinion that clashes with the revelation of being a fan of the Maneskin (“are grandiose”, says John), right on the evening of Sanremo in which Damiano David performs himself (and without news of future projects of the group).
Simon knows book and movie I will marry Simon Le Bon?
“Yes. It was extraordinary to be the object and the subject of such attention, they made me happy ». About their critical perception, of the fact that they have always been considered a shallow productmerely youthful, the band reiterated the long experience and way of working.
«All the albums we have done have perhaps taken more time than expected, but the good job is always interested in it. We are not interested in knowing how they are welcomed. We are sure to have published valuable things that we hope will be remembered in the future ».
Finally, a warning and an invitation to rebellion. Artificial intelligence. «The first piece has already come out completely produced by the AI. We are at a time when You can safely delegate the production of music to the machine, in the United Kingdom it is possiblethe laws are already there. And these allow you to steal sounds and style, ideas removed and never paid to those who created them, think, produced. Something must be done ».
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