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Duran Duran Announces Tour to Celebrate 25th Anniversary

DURAN DURAN ANNOUNCES 78-03 TOUR TO CELEBRATE 25th ANNIVERSARY

16 City Tour Launches November 8th with More Dates to Come

Discover Card Sponsors 10 of the 16 Shows, Offering Card Holders the Opportunity to Buy Seats in Advance of the General Public On-Sale Date

New Album Set for Release in 2004

New York, NY-- The original members of Duran Duran- Simon LeBon (vocalist), Andy Taylor (guitars), John Taylor (bass), Roger Taylor (drums) and Nick Rhodes (keyboards)- who recently reunited after 18 years- played two critically acclaimed, electric club shows in LA and New York this summer, alongside a handful of other arena shows in these markets, celebrating their 25th anniversary. Invigorated by the reaction to these more intimate dates which gave their fans an unprecedented opportunity to see their heroes up
close, the quintet have today announced a series of 16+ concerts in similar venues, starting Saturday, November 8th in Atlantic City, NJ. A new album and an amphitheatre tour are in the works for summer 2004.

Tickets to all sixteen shows will be available to the public on October 18th, with both Discover Card and Duran Duran fan club pre-sales preceding this on October 14th and 15th. For more information on the Duran Duran pre-sale, visit www.duranduran.com.

Duran Duran left crowds of fans, critics, and Hollywood luminaries breathless when they kicked off their 25th anniversary with sold out showsat LA's Roxy Theatre on July 15th and Orange County's Pacific Amphitheater on July 16th. The Roxy was chosen in commemoration of the fact that the venue was the first place the band played on the west coast back in 1981. The Roxy concert was the hottest ticket in LA this summer with everyone from Nic Cage to Gavin Rossdale, Gwen Stefani, Christina Applegate and Beck in attendance. RollingStone.com wrote that "Duran Duran... caused pandemonium on the Sunset Strip," while Launch.com explained that the "entire crowd was a seething, screaming, sweaty mass."

Alongside all the classics, expect the band to perform songs from their forthcoming album on this tour including the guitar driven, edgy, up-tempo "Virus," which will appeal to fans of the band's harder rocking side, signature Duran-sounding pop anthem "Beautiful Colors," and the poignant
thought-provoking "What Happens Tomorrow."

DURAN DURAN FALL TOUR DATES

Sat-Nov-08 Atlantic City, NJ The Borgata
Sun-Nov-09 Washington D.C. Warner Theatre
Mon-Nov-10 Philadelphia, PA Tower Theatre
Thu-Nov-13 Cleveland, OH Agora
Fri-Nov-14 Toronto, ONT Kool Haus
Sat-Nov-15 Detroit, MI Royal Oak
Mon-Nov-17 Chicago, IL House of Blues
Tue-Nov-18 Chicago, IL House of Blues
Fri-Nov-21 Atlanta, GA Tabernacle
Sat-Nov-22 New Orleans, LA Twiropa
Sun-Nov-23 Houston, TX Cullen Auditorium
Mon-Nov-24 Dallas, TX Majestic Theatre
Wed-Nov-26 Albuquerque, NM Kiva Auditorium
Fri-Nov-28 Phoenix, AZ Celebrity Theatre
Sat-Nov-29 Tucson, AZ Rialto Theatre
Sun-Nov-30 San Diego, CA 4th & B Theatre


The band performed their first concert together in New York in 18 years at the Ritz at Webster Hall on August 27th and were greeted by a sold out crowd of screaming fans, paparazzi and celebrities including Moby, The Donnas, Ed Burns, Christy Turlington, Chloe Sevigny, Famke Janssen, Guy Oseary, Tatum O'Neal and Debbie Harry. The band opened with "Friends Of Mine," taken from their 1981 self-titled debut, and by the time they went into familiar favorites like "Hungry Like the Wolf," "Planet Earth," and "Is There Something I Should Know, " the balconies at "The Ritz" were shaking from the fans dancing to the hits.

The NY Post said of the momentous show, "the hungry crowd ... went nuts even before the band played the first notes...As [Duran Duran] tore through hit singles ... raw rock guitars punctuated their signature dance-pop keyboards...Together, the songs displayed Duran Duran's finessee in creating music broadly influenced by funk, rap and rock." Newsday called the show "powerful [and] inventive. "The Village Voice said on behalf of the
audience "[Duran Duran] swooned us to altitudes ecclesiastic."

Duran Duran received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards on August 28th, in recognition of both the groundbreaking clips they produced and the incredible contribution they have made to the
development of the music video as an art form and a powerful marketing medium.

Capitol Records will release Duran Duran's GREATEST DVD on November 4th. This 2 DVD video anthology will feature all the legendary music videos including "Girls On Film," "Rio," "Hungry like the Wolf," and "Ordinary World" along with interviews, uncensored versions and alternate cuts.

Duran Duran are scheduled to play multiple stadium shows with Robbie Williams in Melbourne, Australia on December 10th and Sydney, Australia on December 13th and 14th. Additional dates have yet to be announced in this part of the world.

Over the course of its rich and colorful career, the band has won two Grammys, three Ivor Novello awards, released 11 top ten singles, made 11 multi-platinum albums and sold a staggering 70 million records.

Duran Duran's sound was inspired by the soul music of their youth, the vibrant New York underground music scene of the 70's (the New York Dolls and Lou Reed), the iconic David Bowie and avant garde bands like Roxy Music. The band's third album, 1984s "Seven and the Ragged Tiger" earned Duran Duran their first Stateside #1, with "The Reflex." That same year, Rolling Stone magazine christened the band "The Fab Five," as their single "Union of the Snake" exploded around the world. They shot to fame as leaders of the "Second British Invasion" of the 1980s, yet they always stood apart from their peers - delivering an electric live show and pushing the boundaries of music video.
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I didn't even read this whole article. I'm just so excited they are coming to San Diego!

I am sooo there!!!

:O aww man! No nyc show this time?
I am NOT going to Jersey that's for sure!

Duran Duran

Hi Chewy!! You can come see them with me :LOL:


I'd like to go see them, but I'm sure I'll be broke again. Hoping I'll be able to go see Simply Red this week.
Thanks for the post Vina! Hope you have fun. Tell Roger I says hello!!!

pisses me off--i had presale access to the nyc webster hall show and it was sold out when tickets went on sale-all the celebrities got them! i've been a fan since RIO came out (that was my first record!!) and I was too young to see them in 1983 on the Arena tour. I only got to see them in 1986 (noorius--it was just simon, nick and john) and 1993 and then in 1999. They got booed off stage in 1999 (it was just simon and nick) and now b/c the fab 5 is back everyone wants a piece--urgh it's frustrating!

Chico319 said:

I was wondering if you'd want to go with me. I'll be sure to give your regards to Roger.

Can't wait to pick up that Grestest Hits DVD on Nov.4th!

purplegypsy said:

They got booed off the stage? Just because only 2 original members were there? Yeah the Roxy and Webster Hall shows were set up. Not many tickets were available to the fans. I think they were more for publicity and building a buzz. I'm sure they will do a real tour, bigger than what they got listed right now. They aren't signed yet, so that must be why things are a little last minute and small.

I hope you get to see them! I'm really excited as well because I only became a hardcore fan in 86. But Nick and Simon were always my favorite members so it was cool. I didn't think having John and Andy back would make a difference to me, but hearing mp3s of their shows in Japan just filled me with such excitement and anticipation. I've always had a soft spot for Roger, but I understood why he left the business.

If anyone needs/wants the live mp3s of their recent shows in Japan, send me an orgnote...

I have a question but not about the tour. Has anybody ever seen or own their video "Lonely in Your Nightmare"? Where could I find it? I notice that it's not on any of their video compilation releases of recent years, probably since it was never released as a single.

funkyslsistah said:

I've seen the video and I think I have it somewhere. It was released a long time ago in a video collection but now its out of print. The Greatest Hits dvd should have it, I'm assuming because its gonna be all their videos.