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Article: Duran Duran: the band that once asked "is there anyone out there" is calling again.(Music Legends)(Interview)
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- March 1, 2005
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Not only did Duran Duran define the glitz and glamour of rock 'n' roll in the 1980s, but they elevated it to the level of performance art, singing about topics like nuclear war and the exploitation of women over some of the most indelible tunes to come out of the Me Decade. But as much as the group's rise from the post-punk foxholes of late-1970s Birmingham, England, was meteoric, their dissolution into a quartet, and then a trio, and then a mixed bag of rotating members was long and protracted--long enough, in fact, to draw the band's original members back together for Astronaut (Epic), their latest album, released last fall. With their American tour beginning to take ...