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Duran Duran begin their first North American tour with a show at The Spit, Long Island, New York State, USA.Full article:
John Taylor (guitarist, Duran Duran) : I was such a baby. At JFK airport I couldn't fill in the address bit on the immigration form. I put 'Holiday Inn, Long Island'. The guy said 'I guess if we need to find you, we'll put out an APB for a faggot with purple hair.'
Nick Rhodes (keyboards, Duran Duran) : Our first US date was on Long Island, at the Spit Club in 1981. Our publicist said, 'What do you wanna do?' I said, 'Go up the Empire State [Building] and meet Andy Warhol.' She called the next morning and said we're going up the Empire State and then going to Andy's studio. We're like, 'Whaaat?'
Doreen Dagostino (national publicity manager, Capitol Records, USA): They had no profile in America, but the Girls on Film video gave them a little notoriety. Older writers were a little shocked by the ice cube on the girl's naked breast. But in the hip clubs people were like, 'Hey, it's art!'
I rang Andy (Andy Warhol) up at Interview magazine and said, 'This English band wants to meet you.' I might have mentioned one was in lipstick. Nick and Roger came, and Andy asked Nick if he shared his girlfriend's lipstick. After that, Nick and Andy became friends - you'd see them in the DJ booth at Studio 54.
Roger Taylor: The Warhol thing went over my head a bit. He actually wanted to do an album cover, and we were like, 'The Stones have done it... no, thanks.'
(Source : feature in The Guardian, Nov 16, 2003)
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Nick Rhodes (keyboards, Duran Duran) : Our first US date was on Long Island, at the Spit Club in 1981. Our publicist said, 'What do you wanna do?' I said, 'Go up the Empire State [Building] and meet Andy Warhol.' She called the next morning and said we're going up the Empire State and then going to Andy's studio. We're like, 'Whaaat?'
Doreen Dagostino (national publicity manager, Capitol Records, USA): They had no profile in America, but the Girls on Film video gave them a little notoriety. Older writers were a little shocked by the ice cube on the girl's naked breast. But in the hip clubs people were like, 'Hey, it's art!'
I rang Andy (Andy Warhol) up at Interview magazine and said, 'This English band wants to meet you.' I might have mentioned one was in lipstick. Nick and Roger came, and Andy asked Nick if he shared his girlfriend's lipstick. After that, Nick and Andy became friends - you'd see them in the DJ booth at Studio 54.
Roger Taylor: The Warhol thing went over my head a bit. He actually wanted to do an album cover, and we were like, 'The Stones have done it... no, thanks.'
(Source : feature in The Guardian, Nov 16, 2003)