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'Strange Behaviour' set is set for an Australian release on July 4th, 1999. The name of Duran Duran's upcoming US tour will be called the "Let It Flow" tour.
April/23/99 Duran Duran star Simon Le Bon has had revolutionary laser eye surgery to cure his chronic short-sightedness. After the operation at the Alexandra Hospital, Manchester, he said: "It's improved my life by 100%. I've been able to throw away my glasses for the first time since I was a teenager." He is set to repay his debt of gratitude when he officially opens a state-of-the-art eye surgery centre in Manchester next Tuesday.
April/19/99 Duran Duran Convention theICON 6th Annual Duran Duran Convention will be held July 16th-18th at the Gramercy Park Hotel in New York City. Some of the events that the organizers are planning are an All Duran Dance party, a Scavenger Hunt, an All 80's Dance party, Duran Duran Jeopardy, Buy/Sell/Trade and more. Click here for more information.
April/15/99 MTV is reporting that there's a new Australian Duran Duran Tribute album in the works that will feature artists like Aussie punk band "Living End" (Girls On Film) & Ben Lee with Kylie Minogue (The Reflex). The CD will only be released in Australia but Medazzaland Discs will have the CD in stock when it's released, so you might want to check out the site often. Click here to read the MTV article.
April/08/99 CD NOW now has Strange Behaviour in stock! This is probably the only chance most of you in the USA will have to buy the CD. They also have the Vinyl version of the "Girls On Film" single. Click here for more info. Below is the track listing. I want to thank Michael for passing that along.
Simon Updates Hotline Simon updated the Hotline yesterday with the message below. Credits go to Rie for transcribing it. "Hi, hi - can you hear me? You can, I know you can! It's Simon, you got through to Simon which means that you know you probably only will be able to believe about half of what you hear! Well.... I'm here in London, it's March, in fact the very very end of March. [?????] April's fool's Day - because you know what happens there. It's grey today but it was sunny last week. I've been in the studio working on a song called Lady Xanax. It took me ages to finish the vocals for it but it's sounding really, really great - but it was painful and I just want you guys to know what I actually have to go through to entertain you. The actual pain and suffering and frustration that I experience, and you don't have to deal with that. Well.... that's [?????] Anyway, I've got some questions for you: Did you know that we probably are gonna be going on tour this summer in the States? We don't have any finalized dates yet but we are looking forward to it. Did you know? And if you did know, are you happy? And if you've got any ideas of any songs you would like us to play - any songs, you know, if there's any old song of those albums that would be great to hear - get onto the website and let us know because uuhm... it was great going out playing "Secret Oktober" but I think it's time we did something else that was a little bit uuhm... off the wall like that one! Uhm... and what else? Well, we do take longer than anybody else in the world to make our records so you are still waiting for that one! I have forgotten the question (he whispers this) - and this is, uhm.. well, this thing is recording and when this thing cuts out it really cuts out but I hope you are well, we miss you all! We are still having a great time - and I'm just looking forward to some sunshine, that grey wet stuff is kind of behind us now..... [??????] I carry my own personal grey cloud that just follows me around. Followed around the school playground.... [BRUTAL CUT OUT]"
March/22/99 Nick Updates Hotline Nick updated the Duran Duran hotline (212-388-2888) on Friday with the message below. Credits go to Kelly on Tiger for transcribing it. "Hi, this is Nick, ummm sorry we haven't talked to you for awhile uuuumm we're all here in the studio in London trying to finish up the album aaaaahhh we've just finished a song...called Lady Xanax and we're starting work on another one first thing on Monday we reckon the album will be finished sometime in April and we're hoping to get it out uuuh early summer. At the moment we're talking about the possibility of touring in America, ummm which we thought might be kind of fun for the summer. Ummm we'll let you know as the details are confirrrrrmed... Uuumm what else can I tell you now? Well Warren's adopted a cat, that's really the most important thing that's happened this week I have to say so uh his name is Doogie I'm sure you'll hear more about him. He's now like the White House cat. Uuuuum I think that's about it til next time, ah we'll update you soon, bye." Then Katy tells us *fanfare* 'Behind The Music: Duran Duran' debuts on VH-1, in America, on Sunday April 4th, at 9 pm. For those of you in the UK, ITV on March 31 at 9pm will be showing the film "Hunting Venus". Simon has a cameo role in the movie, so keep an eye out for him! I want to thank James Bland for passing along the info. On March 17th the Wembley Arena concert was shown in Japan on a channel called "WOWOW". The TV program was about 90 minutes long. The track listings are as follows: Planet Earth, A View To A Kill, Come Undone, Careless Memories, Big Bang Generation, Save A Prayer, Friends of Mine, All She Wants Is, Notorious, Ordinary World, Out Of My Mind, Wild Boys, Electric Barbarella, Hungry Like The Wolf, Girls on Film, Secret Oktober, The Reflex & Rio.Here is "Ordinary World" in Real Audio from the same concert. I want to thank Akiyoshi for the info and song clip!
March/18/99 Also, we have found out that on a television program on England's Channel 4 this past Saturday, Duran Duran were named the most important band of the 1980's! Duran Duran came in at number one on the 'Top Ten New Romantic' bands programme that featured on Channel Four last night. Adam & the Ants were second & Spandau were third. - John, Nick, Simon & Warren were interviewed.
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Information taken from -- http://lizardking.simplenet.com/ddnews.htm
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