John says, "Hey Rog, what's the beat from 'Honky Tonk Woman'?" Ah-ha! I play it since I know it from my school band days, it sounds great as JT kicks in with the now familiar delay effected bass line. JT comes in, sets up his bass, and Bernard says, "Come on guys, hit me with a killer groove." Shit! This is the already legendary bass player from Chic.he's played a great groove or two in his time! John and I look nervously at each other, fear coursing through our veins, and the phrase "this is another fine mess you've gotten me into" coming to mind! I set my kit up in the mirror lined drum booth at Maison Rouge studios in London, hit the drums.Blat! Boosh!!Thwack!!! Enormous ambient sounds."just what we were looking for" says the sound engineer Jason Casaro. Nile Rodgers was busy, so who do we call next?.Bernard Edwards! He had just produced the Power Station with John and Andy, we loved the drum sound on that, so the perfect choice, and another hero to boot! It's not every day that you get asked to write and record a James Bond theme, but thanks to our somewhat cheeky bass player, we were in the position - and in a very short space of time. I recall that there was quite a lot of tension around the sessions, with pressure to deliver a hit in a week's time! What do I remember about the recording of "A View to a Kill" 30 years ago?. On the anniversary of the song's release, he reflects on recording the track that would end up being the band's 2nd Number One single, and first James Bond theme to reach the top of the charts (a distinction that remains to this day) Very tied into Andy Warhol etc….When Duran Duran's Roger Taylor recorded his drum part for the band's title track to the fourteenth James Bond film, "A View to a Kill," he didn't know that it would be the last time he filled that post for what would be close to twenty years. Songs like The Chauffeur, Save a Prayer, and well.all their early stuff encapsulated the energy of that time in art, style, and culture. Part of that was that the songs were not so conventional for pop music…I hope they remember that. I don’t want to set such high expectations…but I hope DD finally recapture the sound that made them unique. Yeah, I think they’ve got to turn up the drums and make them thicker and edgier with some of those great dance-rock, tom-tom fills that Roger used to do.īands like The Killers and Franz Ferdinand owe a lot to DD. I hope they’re listening! when these guys are on fire, it’s hard to deny their greatness. I like Duran to be on their darker, more mysterious exotic side and less on their shiny-pop side. I hope he steers them towards Rio and their 1st self-titled album…and also towards Arcadia. first off i’m a massive old-school Duran fan, and Mark Ronson seems pretty cool. Duran Duran spinoff Arcadia reissuing ‘So Red the Rose’ as 2CD/1DVD set.Duran Duran reissuing self-titled debut, ‘Seven and the Ragged Tiger’.Duran Duran’s ‘Notorious,’ ‘Big Thing’ to be reissued in 2CD/1DVD editions in June.Video: Duran Duran’s Nick Rhodes promises ‘we will have a record done this year’.EMI defends Duran Duran remastering, won’t replace CDs over ‘Girls on Film’ glitch.Duran Duran’s ‘Notorious,’ ‘Big Thing’ reissues pushed back to late September.See Duran Duran and Mark Ronson perform “Planet Earth” after the jump… The members of Duran Duran did take a break from those sessions last weekend to join Ronson onstage during his set at London’s Lovebox festival to perform the band’s 1981 debut single “Planet Earth” together watch some fan-shot video below.ĭOWNLOAD: Duran Duran, “Blame the Machine” (clip) In a video message to fans last month, Nick Rhodes said the sessions nearly are over, and “we will have a record done this year and out in the first quarter of next year.”
You can hear the sample in the clip embedded above as hinted at by the band’s members and Ronson, it’s got a decidedly old-school DD vibe.ĭuran Duran began work on its follow-up to 2007’s Red Carpet Massacre in February 2009, with guitarist Dom Brown filling in for the (once again) departed Andy Taylor. The first taste of Duran Duran’s long-in-the-works 13th studio album hit the Internet this evening after Mark Ronson - who’s producing the disc - played 30 seconds of “Blame the Machine” on his East Village Radio show.
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