Duran Duran Gets a Timbaland Update

When Duran Duran asked superproducer Timbaland to come up with some hit-worthy songs for their new album, they knew they'd have to give up a fair amount of creative control.

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The internet may have been a miracle for music fans, Duran Duran star John Taylor says, but instant access to decades of recordings and artists' inner thoughts is not all good.

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A lullaby: Duran Duran – Rio

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It's a new recording of a rewritten version of Midnight Oil's protest song "Beds Are Burning," from 1987.

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80s Music Videos Revolutionized Video Production

Its amazing to watch the progression in technology when you watch the music videos from the 1980's. In the early 80's, around 1980 when MTV first started the production value was extremely low and within a matter of 3 years you see a vast improvement in video quality.

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A CRISIS bank's staff whooped it up on a £2MILLION weekend bender starring pop band Duran Duran at the height of their credit collapse.

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When Musicians Become Weenies

Listening to an early, mid-70s song by The Police today made me start thinking about music.

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Musician Mark Ronson is to rework Duran Duran's classic hits in a one-off concert with the pop legends in France. Ronson, who recently revealed he was working on a potential Bond theme with Amy Winehouse, is currently in the studio crafting the remixes.

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The Top Five Seminal Early '80s Albums

The early 1980s was an amazing time for music. The excesses of the stadium rock movement were finally bringing that bloated dinosaur to a doddering end, and the roughest edges of the punk explosion of '76-'79 had been abraded away by the twin influences of record sales and fame.

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...New Sound On her new CD, As I Am, Keys says: ''My voice is different'' — raspy, urgent. (Hear for yourself on the addictive single ''No One.'') ''All my albums are personal, but there's so much more that I feel, and so much more I needed to say.''

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The guys at Trans-Pacific Radio sit down with Debito Arudou, Japan's leading human rights activist, to talk about his work with and research into the conditions facing foreign workers in Japan, especially Brazilians and Southeast Asians, and, of course, what needs to be done to g …

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From ABC's apple crumble to Oasis' cannonball, a radio station has compiled the top 10 songwriting howlers. Where's your favourite?

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Within minutes of the box office closing tickets for the Princess Diana Memorial Concert were being hawked on auction site eBay.

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British band Duran Duran are to create a virtual island within online game Second Life, on which they will perform actual live concerts. The band is the first major group to announce a virtual world presence in the game.

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