Duran Duran are embracing turning the big 4–0 with a year of celebrations. The Wild Boys headline a massive BST Hyde Park concert in London on July 12, almost 40 years to the day after their first gig.
It was one anniversary they could not ignore. “The whole year, in every aspect, is a celebration for us,” Simon Le Bon told me. “This concert is a particularly special one because it’s the closest gig to the very first one we played at the Rum Runner club in 1980. “I think for a band 40 years is quite a landmark, it got to this number and it was so extraordinarily large that we lost all our embarrassment and self consciousness about it. “We are quite proud that we are still together.” Le Bon is the archetypal frontman, but four decades ago,
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