Duran Duran have recalled how their style and musical focus shifted after punk “got a bit dull” for them.Speaking in a new interview, frontman Simon Le Bon discussed how the band once found the rebellious genre exciting but after a while it became boring to them.“Punk affected our musical style, our way of dressing; it affected me lyrically massively – the single biggest lyrical influence on me was Patti Smith.
That album ‘Horses’ was a punk rock album,” Le Bon told Vogue.He continued: “But then something happened between us and punk: It went into a slightly more austere kind of style where everybody wore black, and the album covers were monochrome.
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