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Duran Duran play at The Rum Runner, Birmingham, England, UK.Full article:
Paul Berrow (Rum Runner owner and Duran Duran's first manager): My brother and I were importing all the new Giorgio Moroder-style records from New York. We'd been to Studio 54 and heard how dance music was changing. The Duran aesthetic was influenced by that.
Roger Taylor (drums): We rehearsed in the Rum Runner on Monday nights with a jazz-funk night going on in the next room. Somehow all that got into the music.
John Taylor (bass): In 1978, it was the year of 'disco sucks', and I felt I should be at a therapist saying, 'I have this guilty love of disco.' I thought Chic were fantastic. That's why I became a bass player.
Simon Le Bon (singer): The first day I turned up, Roger was outside the Rum Runner painting a wall. The band was a bit of a laugh at first. I didn't know I'd leave college and give my life to it.
(Source : feature in The Guardian, Nov 16, 2003)
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Roger Taylor (drums): We rehearsed in the Rum Runner on Monday nights with a jazz-funk night going on in the next room. Somehow all that got into the music.
John Taylor (bass): In 1978, it was the year of 'disco sucks', and I felt I should be at a therapist saying, 'I have this guilty love of disco.' I thought Chic were fantastic. That's why I became a bass player.
Simon Le Bon (singer): The first day I turned up, Roger was outside the Rum Runner painting a wall. The band was a bit of a laugh at first. I didn't know I'd leave college and give my life to it.
(Source : feature in The Guardian, Nov 16, 2003)