  Duran Duran started out in
England with Rhodes and John Taylor, along
with Simon Colley and Stephen Duffy in the
late 1970s. The name of the group came from
the Jane Fonda movie Barbarella. By
1979, Colley and Duffy left the group and
were replaced by Andy Wickett and Roger
Taylor. Wickett's stay with the band is
short-lived and Andy Taylor joined the group
as the guitarist after John Taylor switched
to bass.
Simon LeBon joined
Duran Duran as lead vocalist.
 Success for Duran Duran
began in the UK with the release of the
singles "Girls On Film,"
"Planet Earth" and "Careless
Memories," their visionary music videos,
and touring throughout the year. By the end
of the year, their debut LP, Duran
Duran, made the Top 3 in the UK.
 Duran Duran again spent
much of the year touring and hitting the UK
charts with "Hungry Like The Wolf" and "Save A
Prayer." In the US, Duran Duran's
singles had climbed the charts yet, but the
band released Rio and the EP Carnival.
 # 6
Singles Artist of the Year
 Duran Duran hit the Top 40 with
"Hungry Like The Wolf."
Duran Duran hit the Top 10 with "Hungry Like The Wolf."
Duran Duran hit #1 on the UK
singles chart with "Is There Something I
Should Know"
Rio was certified gold.
Duran Duran hit the Top 40 with
"Rio."
Rio was certified
platinum.
Duran Duran hit the Top 10 with "Rio."
 Duran Duran released Duran
Duran in the US (which had been
originally released in 1981) and Seven
And The Ragged Tiger.
Duran Duran hit the Top 40 with
"Is There Something I
Should Know."
 Duran Duran hit the Top 10 with "Is There Something I
Should Know."
Duran
Duran was certified gold.
Duran Duran hit the Top 40 with
"Union Of The Snake."
 Seven
And The Ragged Tiger topped the UK LP
chart.
Duran Duran hit the Top 10 with "Union Of The Snake."
 # 7
Singles Artist of the Year
 Seven
And The Ragged Tiger was certified
platinum.
Duran Duran hit the Top 40 with
"New Moon On Monday."
Duran Duran appeared on the
cover of Rolling
Stone.
Duran Duran won 2 Grammy Awards for Best Music Video,
Short Form ("Girls On Film/Hungry Like The Wolf") and Best Music
Video, Long Form (Duran Duran).
Duran Duran hit the Top 10 with "New Moon On Monday."
 Duran Duran hit the Top 40 with
"The Reflex."
Duran Duran topped the UK
singles chart with "The Reflex" for 4 weeks.
Duran Duran hit Top 10 with "The Reflex."
Duran Duran topped the Billboard
Hot 100 Singles chart with "The Reflex" for 2 weeks.
Duran Duran hit #1 for a week with "The Reflex."
 The video for "The Reflex" was nominated
for a MTV Video Music
Award for Best Stage Performance Video.
Duran Duran members helped out
with the charity single "Do They Know
It's Christmas?" as part of Band
Aid.
 Duran Duran released
the live LP Arena - featuring live
tracks from Australia, Japan, Canada, and the
UK.
Duran Duran hit the
charts with "The Wild Boys"
 # 19
Singles Artist of the Year
Arena and Duran
Duran were certified platinum.
Duran Duran were nominated for
an American Music
Award for Favorite Pop/Rock
Band/Duo/Group Video Artist.
Arena was certified 2x
platinum.
Duran Duran performed on Saturday
Night Live.
Duran Duran won a Brit Award for
Best British Music Video ("The Wild
Boys").
 Andy Taylor and Roger
Taylor left the group. Andy later went on to
some solo success and joined forces with John
Taylor and Robert Palmer with
the group Power Station and
their LP - Power
Station.
Duran Duran performed at Live
Aid.
Duran Duran topped the
Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart for 2 weeks
with the James Bond theme song "A View
To A Kill" from the A
View To A Kill soundtrack.
 LeBon, Rhodes, and
Roger Taylor released So
Red The Rose under the name of Arcadia.
The video for
"The Wild Boys" was nominated for a
MTV Video Music
Award for Best Direction and "The Reflex" was nominated
for Best Editing.
 Duran
Duran: # 103
Singles Artist of the Year ~ Andy
Taylor: # 117
Singles Artist of the Year ~ John
Taylor: # 141
Singles Artist of the Year
John Taylor had a solo
hit with "I Do What I Do" from the
film 9
1/2 Weeks.
 Duran Duran released Notorious.
 # 75
Singles Artist of the Year
Notorious as certified platinum.
Duran Duran had hits
with "Notorious," "Skin
Trade," and "Meet El
Presidente."
 # 72
Singles Artist of the Year
Warren Cuccurullo, formerly of Missing
Persons, officially joined Duran
Duran after helping out previously with work
on Notorious. Sterling Campbell
also joined the group.
 The band hit the charts with
"I Don't Want Your Love."
Duran Duran released Big
Thing.
Big
Thing was certified gold.
Duran Duran could be
heard with the track and "Do You Believe
In Shame?" from the film Tequila
Sunrise.
 # 112
Singles Artist of the Year
 Duran Duran returned to the Top
40 with "All She Wants Is."
Duran Duran released
the hits collection Decade.
 Duran Duran released Liberty.
Rio was certified 2x
platinum.
Seven
And The Ragged Tiger was certified 2x
platinum.
 Decade was certified gold.
 # 5
Singles Artist of the Year
Duran Duran returned to the Top
40 with "Ordinary World."
 Duran Duran released Duran
Duran (The Wedding Album).
Duran Duran hit the Top 10 with "Ordinary World."
The singles "Hungry Like The Wolf," "The Reflex," "The Wild
Boys," and "Ordinary World" were certified
gold.
Duran Duran hit the Top 40 and Top 10 with "Come Undone."
Duran
Duran (The Wedding Album) was certified
platinum.
Duran Duran received a star on
the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Duran Duran hit
the Top 40 with "Too Much Information."
The video for "Ordinary World" was nominated
for a MTV Video Music
Award for Best Cinematography.
Campbell left the group
and later joined Soul Asylum.
 # 193
Singles Artist of the Year
Duran Duran could be heard on
the Encomium:
A Tribute to Led Zeppelin compilation
with "Thank You."
 Duran Duran released Thank
You - a collection of cover tunes.
Thank
You was certified gold.
John Taylor left Duran Duran.
 # 135
Singles Artist of the Year
 Duran Duran hit the Top 40 with
"Electric Barbarella."
Duran Duran released Medazzaland.
Decade was certified
platinum.
 Duran Duran released
another hits collection Greatest.
MTV: 100
Greatest Videos Ever Made includes
"Hungry Like The Wolf" at # 11 and "Girls On
Film" at # 68.
Greatest was certified gold.
 Duran Duran released Pop
Trash.
VH1: 100
Greatest Videos includes "Hungry Like The Wolf" at # 31 and "Rio" at # 60.
It was reported that the
original lineup of Duran Duran (LeBon,
Rhodes, Roger Taylor, Andy Taylor, and John
Taylor) would begin recording a new LP
together this year. In the meantime,
Cuccurullo would be reuniting with Missing
Persons.
Duran Duran
ranked # 20 on VH1: 100
Sexiest Artists.
 Duran
Duran: The Singles Box 80-85 was released and
included 13-CDs of all the group's singles.
VH1: 100 Best
Songs of the Past 25 Years includes "Hungry Like The Wolf" at # 80.
Duran Duran (LeBon, Rhodes, Andy
Taylor, John Taylor, and Roger Taylor)
reunited for a comeback tour and began
preparation for a reunion LP.
 Duran Duran appeared on the
soundtrack for Queer
Eye For The Straight Guy with
"Sunrise."
Duran Duran were honored at the
Brit Awards with the Outstanding Contribution
to Music Award.
Duran Duran released a new LP Astronaut and the 14-CD box set The
Singles 1986-1995.
Duran Duran topped the Billboard
Internet Album char with Astronaut.
Duran Duran topped the
Billboard Dance Music Club Play chart for a
week with "(Reach Up For The)
Sunrise."
# 29 on the Top Pop Artists
of the Past 25 Years chart.
 On July 2nd, Duran Duran
performed in Rome, Italy, as part of the
worldwide Live
8 concerts. The mission of the
concerts was to raise awareness of the
on-going poverty in Africa and to pressure
the G8 leaders to take action by doubling
aid, canceling debt, and delivering trade
justice for Africa.
It was announced that Andy
Taylor had quit the band.
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