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Article: Duran Duran returns with more maturity
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 27, 1989
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When Duran Duran played its first Chicago concert at the Park
West in 1981, four of the five members were too young to legally
drink. Today, the youngest member is 26 and a family man.
"It's kind of ironic that on that tour we couldn't have a pint
of beer, but we could play in clubs to audiences filled with older
people drinking liquor," said keyboardist Nick Rhodes, 26. "Actually,
those people were probably around our age now, but they seemed so
much older back then!"
The group from Birmingham, England, has pared down to founding
members Rhodes, bassist John Taylor, 28, and singer Simon Le Bon, 30.
They will perform cuts from their latest album, "Big Thing," at 8
tonight at the UIC ...