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Article: Duran Duran.(News)

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October 11, 2004
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Duran Duran may have been the darlings of the New Romantics in the dizzy heydays of the eighties, but the band started life in a Birmingham pub in the late 1970s.

Founded by Nick Rhodes and John Taylor over a lunchtime drink, the Duran Duran we know and love today - who release their latest album Astronaut this week - could have been called a more mundane RAF, had it not been for the villain in the cult 1968 sci-fi film Barbarella.

More surprisingly, flamboyant front man Simon Le Bon - arguably the distinguishing feature of the band - didn't even feature in ...

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