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Article: NEW ERA, SAME DURAN DURAN

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October 12, 2004
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It's easy to forget, now that we're in the age of the iPod and everyone is his own DJ, that there was a time when you literally could not escape Duran Duran. The band's preening, prancing synth- pop saturated the airwaves; the TV screen was filled with the band's lurid and primitive videos.

Singer Simon LeBon, romping like a schoolgirl, caused mass hysteria. Many young minds were bruised by Duran Duran, by the daft lyrics

and the glossy images. After 21 years, are we ready to forgive them? Because it has been that long since "Seven and the Ragged Tiger," the last full studio album with all the original members,

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