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Duran Duran Tour Off to Wobbly Start

Reuters
Posted: 2008-03-27 12:22:31
Filed Under: Music News
LOS ANGELES (March 27) - British pop band Duran Duran's world tour got off to an awkward start in New Zealand on Wednesday as singer Simon Le Bon forgot the lyrics and bassist John Taylor stormed off stage, according to a published report.

"Duran Duran, f---ing up in style," Le Bon, 49, told the crowd at the Vector Arena in the northern city of Auckland, according to the New Zealand Herald's review the next day.

Taylor, 47, abandoned his instrument and walked off stage, apparently in reaction to a segment in which the group's members donned matching satin suits and headsets to play a medley on keyboards and an electric drum set.

"I could not dance to that. These people came here to dance," Taylor said, after he returned to the stage, according to the Herald.

Le Bon forgot the words to "Hungry Like the Wolf," one of the band's biggest hits, the Herald reported.

Still, the paper said the crowd -- dominated by screaming women in their 30s -- did not seem to mind the snafus.

Duran Duran, rounded out by keyboardist Nick Rhodes, 45, and drummer Roger Taylor, 47, next heads to Australia for seven shows, beginning on Friday in Sydney.

After the Asia-Pacific leg ends, Duran Duran will begin a North American tour in Vancouver on April 29.

The band, which was formed 30 years ago, is promoting its latest album, "Red Carpet Massacre," which bombed in the United States and Britain last year.

(Reporting by Dean Goodman; editing by Belinda Goldsmith)

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JUNGLE1700 06:12:36 AM Mar 28 2008

Alzheimer's is setting in . They are getting pretty old.

Stop Gay Rights 11:54:52 PM Mar 27 2008

Maybe Mary Jane had something to do with it?

Stop Gay Rights 11:53:49 PM Mar 27 2008

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estelleaversa 09:24:20 PM Mar 27 2008

You would think that he would have rehearsed! Me too Lefty, it gives me the creeps.

FeistyLady31 08:14:57 PM Mar 27 2008

haha simon lebon forgetting words to hungry like the wolf. what a effin moron how can you forget words to a song that was a big hit in the 80's. i guess that old age is creeping up on that idiot simon lebon. duran duran is a very over rated band anyways.

@DuranGirl people can say and express their opinions on duran duran if they want it's america and it's a free country so deal with it idiot. and keep your mouth about people burning in hell for all eternity you stupid no account skanky duran duran b*tch.

LibraGraphics 08:01:48 PM Mar 27 2008

Rock on Sapphire- I know Duran Duran fans of both genders and all ages, some of whom weren't even born in the 80's. Whether you like their music or not, they are real musicians and not a teenybopper act, as evidenced by the fact that they've influenced other band from No Doubt to Sugar Ray to Korn. Do you hear any bands citing say, NKOTB as an influence and are they still playing arenas? By the way according to fans who were actually there at the show, that article isn't even accurate.

SapphireDragonXc 07:35:49 PM Mar 27 2008

so they're off to a wobbly start??...... geez, I can't begin to count the number of times in the past thirty years that I've heard that said (and worse) about Duran Duran!!..... and yet... they're still here... rocking the fans like they always have (the old and the new fans alike)..... KEEP UP THE MUSIC GUYS, WE STILL LOVE YOU!

RIlles6961 05:15:31 PM Mar 27 2008

I always loved DD, the last album wasn't my cup o tea.

If you like DD come over: myspace.com/anotherblackseason
It's a good band.

Kristalyn@wild4music.com 04:57:07 PM Mar 27 2008

Kristalyn@wild4music.com, AKA DuranGirl.

RUELJOYNER01 04:40:40 PM Mar 27 2008

trolls trolling for trolldom sake. man card intact.

Lefty Lori 04:20:15 PM Mar 27 2008

Everytime I hear that song I think of that Diane Downs chick who murdered her children and the court said that song was playing when she did it. During the trial when they played the song she was taping her fingers along to the song because she said it was her favorite song, what a sicko.

Lefty Lori 04:17:02 PM Mar 27 2008

Everytime I hear that song I think of that Diane Downs chick who murdered her children and the court said that song was playing when she did it. Dug the trial when they played the song she was taping her fingers along to the song because she said it was her favorite song, what a sicko.

FREEMARKETER67 03:54:43 PM Mar 27 2008

LMAO! Sentimental former bubble gum music lovers, reliving their shallow bubble gum 80's lives.

By the way, any 30 something males seen at a Duran Duran concert should turn in their man card at the gate.

rmoni23 03:52:36 PM Mar 27 2008

DuranGirl 03:06:12 PM Mar 27 2008

F-CK YOU all of you Duran Duran haters. Admit it, you're only jealous anyway. Duran Duran are THE BEST BAND IN THE WORLD and you can all go to f---ing HELL and burn for all eternity.

HMMM...A BIT SEVERE , DON'T YOU THINK? MAYBE YOU NEED A HOBBY OR SOME ANGER MANAGEMENT CLASSES. THEY ARE JUST SOME WASHED UP BAND. GET OVER IT!

WHENENROME 02:59:57 PM Mar 27 2008

Ray must be kidding, if he's not delusional... Duran Duran had probably over a dozen hit songs... And Testa, what kind of music should these women ''grow up'' and listen to? American Idol talent? or Brittney?

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