By the end of the year, the band scored its highest-charted single at the time, a version of the ballad ” Tell It Like It Is “, which peaked at No. 8.
Heart released Bebe le Strange in 1980.
Wickett was replaced by Roger Taylor’s friend and former singer of The Scent Organs Jeff Thomas. In early 1980, they became the resident band at the city’s Rum Runner nightclub.They worked at the club and regularly rehearsed and performed there. Curtis was unhappy with the Rum Runner club scene and…
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The band made their recording debut in late 1980 for the Some Bizzare Album
Subsequently, Duran Duran struggled to escape the teen idol image and gain respect among critics with more complex music. The new serious image was not accepted at first and their popularity began to wane. Rolling Stone said, “In their search for musical maturity, the surviving Durans have lost a good…
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Taylor and Rhodes then recruited lead vocalist Andy Wickett (formerly frontman of TV Eye ) and decided that they needed a live drummer. They hired Roger Taylor , a former member of various local bands (most recently The Scent Organs who also played at Barbarella’s), while John Taylor switched to…
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Units’ DIY, self stamped, 7” EP entitled “Units” was released in 1979. It was followed by another record in early 1980, “Warm Moving Bodies”/”iNight”. Their first album, Digital Stimulation , was released in 1980, and was the first album released by 415 Records .
In 1979, the Wilson-Fisher liaisons ended—Roger Fisher was voted out of the band by the other members, and his brother Mike left the group’s orbit within a month.
In 1979, Clarke played guitar in an Ultravox -influenced band, the Plan, with friends Robert Marlow and Paul Langwith.
Childhood friends John Taylor and Nick Rhodes formed Duran Duran in 1978 in Birmingham , England, together with Taylor’s art school friend Stephen Duffy , naming their band after “Dr. Durand Durand”, Milo O’Shea ‘s character from the science fiction film Barbarella (1968), the day after the film was broadcast…
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