Hello, and welcome to my madness!

Here it is, my eternal work-in-progress: a comprehensive timeline detailing the history of Duran Duran and its members. It includes band history, concert dates, public appearances, release dates, TV and film appearances, side projects, solo albums, weddings and births, and so on -- in short, anything I can pin a date on. I hope that this Timeline will fill a niche for fans, journalists and writers interested in reference material on the band. I also recommend these other excellent histories and biographies of the band online.

I've done my best to avoid gossip and intrusion into the private family and personal life of the band members, while still acknowledging those reports (of girlfriends, drug abuse, and so on) that made the news at the time. It's a fine line to walk, at times, and I hope that I've accomplished it with reasonable sensitivity.

Please help...

This site IS a labor of love, but any help I can get from my fellow fans to support the site are more than welcome!

A few notes on the project:

a) Typographical Conventions:

• Editorial comments and questions appear in [square brackets].
• The dates for live shows use this format:

month, day

Performer: event, venue, city (suburb of larger city), state/province, country (with support band) other comments about the date, if applicable

source:

• The dates for major tours are colored identically, so that a single tour can be tracked across multiple months; additional comments about the tour in general can be found with the Tour Title Bar just before the first date of the tour.
• B-sides and bonus tracks appear in {braces} after the single/album release information (note that "b/w" stands for "backed with", a holdover from those days when singles were 45 rpm vinyl and had two sides!)
• The names of songs, albums, movies, and radio and television shows appear in 'single quotes'
• Band names (aside from Duran itself) appear in bold type.
• The names of books and magazines appear in italics.

b) I have not attempted to be exhaustive in the listing of the Duran discography. Although I've included the details of all the album and singles releases, and noted interesting b-sides and rarities, I have decided not to try to include every remix, 12" single, promo release, and so on. Similarly, I have not tried to list releases for every country separately. If you are interested in more detail, see Tom McClintock's excellent Discography.

c) I've included only a few select dates from Missing Persons history, where their history intersected or paralleled Duran's in interesting ways. For more information, see Cyndi Glass' extensive websites Privacy (for Warren Cuccurullo) and The Missing Persons Website.

d) Because this was intended at first as a purely personal resource, I didn't record the sources of my facts in the early years; I am now working on rectifiying that. I will continue to add citations as I review my research materials, but for some entries my sources may be long gone. It was never my intent to pass along unsubstantiated gossip, nor to plagiarize. I will be happy to provide credit to anyone who notifies me about material for which the source is not properly acknowledged here, or to remove false information when it is pointed out to me.

The icons in the source bar will show at a glance where the information came from. For more detail, hover your mouse over the icon to read the 'alt' text, or click on the icon to open the source text/website (where possible) in a new window .

	Official Duran website or publication (tour program, books, videos, liner notes, etc.)
	Official John Taylor website or publication
	Direct Duran Quote (video, radio or online interview; online chats)
	Print (newspapers, magazines, online news reports)
	Website
	Eyewitness (my own eyes, or firsthand reports)
	Fan Reports (with unknown sources)

e) I've been working on this project on and off since I first got onto the internet back in 1992 -- the few of you who remember me as "Catnixt" from the old Duran Duran Lives discussion group at America Online may remember a rough draft of this document!