They were branded as a plastic group and they predicted a couple of life newscasts, but, 40 years later, last last walk through the big stages like a pop classic. It is not even necessary to invoke the ‘new romantics’ or synth-pop: simon lebon and company treasure a good number of universal tunes, and they were seized to attract attention and unleash the hubbub this Friday at the third (and penultimate) day of Cruïlla.
Visible changes in the profile of the public, with an average age on the rise, it could be said that it was even doubling that of the rapper-trapper program on Thursday. Although Duran Duran has been releasing albums in the 21st century, their concert was a full-fledged trip to the 80s starting with the opening theme, the furious ‘Wild boys’. One day teen idol Simon LeBon, white jacket (which he took off), in reasonable shape at 63, showed off a runaway vocal power, reinforced by two backing vocalists. On stage, almost the entire most iconic group (with the exception of guitarist Andy Taylor, who escaped in 2006), reproducing their characteristic sound quite brilliantly, that electronic arranged funk-pop and some other pinch of rock guitar.
James Bond track
The themes of their modern production, which fell by the dropper (such as the three from the album ‘Future past’, which they released last year), kept the type, always in convenient balance with the numbers that everyone wanted to hear: from ‘James Bond moment’ from ‘A view to kill’ (theme signed with the late John Barry) to the funk that resulted from ‘Notorious’with the Chic touch printed in his day by Nile Rodgers.
The ballad ‘Ordinary world’ It sounded like that beautiful but bland song, which could be from Duran Duran as well as from any other group, although it must be remembered that it revived his career in 1993. The final fireworks had more character with ‘Planet Earth’, his first ‘ single’, with John Taylor’s bass setting the style, linked with ‘The reflex’, ‘Careless memories’ and a ‘Girls on film’ humorously merged with that Calvin Harris theme called ‘Acceptable in the 80s’, ironically with the ways and customs of another era. The icing on the cake was ‘Rio’, the theme with which one day they sighed for the (finally accomplished) conquest of America.
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From the ‘anglo’ pop trophies to those of our scene, those supplied by Elephants and Delafé and The Blue Flowers. Although Shuarma, singer of the first, gave us a touch reminding us that this band has an international dimension. “We have more public in Mexico than in Catalonia & rdquor ;, he noted without provoking protests but cries of support. “It’s rare, but it happens & rdquor ;, he added. At the Fòrum, his pop with slender melodies and dramatic background reserved moments of depth (‘Duele’, with the singer sitting at the keyboard) and some choruses (‘Azul’, ‘Volgó la luz’, ‘Missueños’), and the band scored the merit of making the Cruïlla audience sing a Perales classic, the one that says “I love you, I love you, you are the center of my heart”.
More or less at the same time the reunified Delafé and Las Flores Azules revived that recipe based on combining his raps (Òscar d’Aniello) and her sweet melodies (Helena Miquel). The ‘revival’ of the first decade of the 21st century is already possible, and prints such as the melancholy ‘January on the beach’ were there to illustrate it, on the way to a celebrated climax with ‘La Fuerza’ and ‘Mar el poder del mar’ ‘, with the slogan “this does not stop, this does not stop & rdquor; repeated until the final fade. Another vertex of the most pop day of this Cruïlla, in contrast to the Latin party predicted for this Saturday with Juan Luis Guerra and Rubén Blades.