Post by Tin on Jul 10, 2012 9:45:56 GMT -5
Tuesday sees the release of Duran Duran’s new live CD/DVD A Diamond in the Mind, which is the veteran new wave band’s first live release in nearly a decade. The package documents Duran Duran’s concert this past December in Manchester, England, during a run of U.K. shows which they’d been forced to reschedule because lead singer Simon LeBon had lost his voice.
“It was the first time in the 30-year history of the band that everybody kind of thought, ‘Well, is this it? Is this the end of the road?’” recalls drummer Roger Taylor of that time last May when Simon’s voice suddenly went on him during a performance at the Cannes Film Festival. “You never know whether it’s gonna come back, whether it’s a permanent condition.”
But the rest of the band didn’t put any pressure on Simon. “I had great support,” the singer tells ABC News Radio. “Really, the best kind of support someone can have in that situation is when people say, ‘We don’t care what it takes, just take your time. Make sure you’re really fit to get back.’ It took two months, really, before there was any improvement.” During his recovery, Simon says, he often ran into Adele at the voice therapist’s office. “Me and her are good friends,” he reveals.
Thankfully, Roger tells ABC News Radio, “[His voice] did come back and it came back to full strength and the show got better and better.” According to Roger, it was keyboardist Nick Rhodes who said, “We really need to capture this concert on film.”
Nick tells ABC News Radio that the DVD was shot with multiple cameras, in HD, “So you really get the feeling of being in the room,” and adds, “We wanted people to really get the energy of the performance which is, obviously, hard to capture.”
The CD and DVD feature Duran Duran performing favorites ranging from “Planet Earth” and “Hungry Like the Wolf,” to “Rio” and “View to a Kill,” to “The Reflex,” “Ordinary World” and “Come Undone.” But there’s also plenty of material from their most recent disc, All You Need Is Now.
“One of the reasons we made this DVD is because we had so much new material in the show,” explains Simon. “We put more new songs in this show than we’ve done in anything for the last 20 years.” Simon says performing that new material keeps the band from getting sick of their classic hits.
“We want to carry on for as long as we can and it’s important to us that we don’t lose our passion for them and let these songs lose their spark,” he notes. “You can kill them dead if you overplay them. That’s one of the reasons why we go in..and write new music, because it takes the pressure off the old songs, for us, and it means that they have a longer lifetime.”
Duran Duran kicks off a U.S. summer tour August 8 in Saratoga, California. They’re performing at a special concert marking the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London on July 27.
www.classichitsandoldies.com/v2/2012/07/10/duran-durans-new-live-cddvd-documents-return-of-simon-lebons-voice/
“It was the first time in the 30-year history of the band that everybody kind of thought, ‘Well, is this it? Is this the end of the road?’” recalls drummer Roger Taylor of that time last May when Simon’s voice suddenly went on him during a performance at the Cannes Film Festival. “You never know whether it’s gonna come back, whether it’s a permanent condition.”
But the rest of the band didn’t put any pressure on Simon. “I had great support,” the singer tells ABC News Radio. “Really, the best kind of support someone can have in that situation is when people say, ‘We don’t care what it takes, just take your time. Make sure you’re really fit to get back.’ It took two months, really, before there was any improvement.” During his recovery, Simon says, he often ran into Adele at the voice therapist’s office. “Me and her are good friends,” he reveals.
Thankfully, Roger tells ABC News Radio, “[His voice] did come back and it came back to full strength and the show got better and better.” According to Roger, it was keyboardist Nick Rhodes who said, “We really need to capture this concert on film.”
Nick tells ABC News Radio that the DVD was shot with multiple cameras, in HD, “So you really get the feeling of being in the room,” and adds, “We wanted people to really get the energy of the performance which is, obviously, hard to capture.”
The CD and DVD feature Duran Duran performing favorites ranging from “Planet Earth” and “Hungry Like the Wolf,” to “Rio” and “View to a Kill,” to “The Reflex,” “Ordinary World” and “Come Undone.” But there’s also plenty of material from their most recent disc, All You Need Is Now.
“One of the reasons we made this DVD is because we had so much new material in the show,” explains Simon. “We put more new songs in this show than we’ve done in anything for the last 20 years.” Simon says performing that new material keeps the band from getting sick of their classic hits.
“We want to carry on for as long as we can and it’s important to us that we don’t lose our passion for them and let these songs lose their spark,” he notes. “You can kill them dead if you overplay them. That’s one of the reasons why we go in..and write new music, because it takes the pressure off the old songs, for us, and it means that they have a longer lifetime.”
Duran Duran kicks off a U.S. summer tour August 8 in Saratoga, California. They’re performing at a special concert marking the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London on July 27.
www.classichitsandoldies.com/v2/2012/07/10/duran-durans-new-live-cddvd-documents-return-of-simon-lebons-voice/