Duran Duran Now And Then:

A comparison between the early days and today (inspired by a newspaper article from Pensacola)

 

Then: Dyed hair and frilly shirts.

Now: Dyed hair and frilly shirts.

 

Then: Gorging your sanhedralite (To The Shore)

Now: You peel me like an onion skin (Love Voodoo)

 

Then: Screaming, scantily clad 14-year-old girls with tins of big hair and make-up, trying to break through security to get backstage.

Now: Those same screaming, scantily clad girls, ten years later, now new and improved with lifts, implants, bigger hair and new make-up. And they're still trying to get backstage.

 

Then: Light, light, light, light (Faster Than Light)

Now: Na, na, na, na, na, na, na (Drowning Man)

 

Then: Lick it up, suck it up, stick it outside/Band it up, band it out, banging on a big thing (Big Thing)

Now: Itchy finger on the trigger/Got to make your shooter bigger (Shotgun)

 

Then: Holy beads of jism (Venice Drowning)

Now: Cum n take a look, put it to me, baby/You could feel luv come tumblin down (UMF)

 

Then: All-night parties.

Now: 4:00 a.m. feedings.

 

Then: Loved by Princess Di.

Now: Loved by Beavis and Butthead.

 

Then: (when Simon was asked how long he could go without a mirror) Until I need to chop my next line. (23rd Street Magazine, December 1981)

Now: Pay your toll, sell your soul/Pound for pound, it costs more than gold/The longer you stay, the more you pay/My white lines go a long way/Either up your nose or through your veins/With nothing to gain except killing your brain twice as sweet as sugar, twice as bitter as salt/And if you get hooked baby, its nobody else's fault/So don't do it! (White Lines)

 

Then: The fact is that our growth rate has been probably higher than most, if not all, new bands. (Nick, In Their Own Words, 1982)

Now: People were just bored with Duran Duran. (Nick, Rolling Stone, 1993)

 

Then: Voted Best Group at the British Pop and Rock Awards in 1983.

Now: Voted Comeback of the Year in Rolling Stone's 1993 Readers Poll.

 

Then: 13-year-olds skipping school and/or lying to parents to see them in concert.

Now: 19-year-olds driving naked and getting arrested to get tickets and backstage passes.

 

Then: Image.

Now: Substance

 

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