| Jan
? |
Duran
Duran: Hammersmith
Odeon, London,
UK
Steve
Harley of Cockney Rebel and saxophonist Andy
Hamilton join the band on stage
|
|
| Jan
7 |
Nick
and Julie Anne visit with Andy Warhol in New
York |
|
| ? |
'DMM
Mega-Mixes' released in Germany ('Planet Earth',
'Khanada', 'Fame', 'Girls on Film', 'Save A
Prayer') |
|
|
?
|
Duran awarded Best Album (Rio), Best Group,
and Simon is awarded Best Male Vocalist at
Rock & Pop Awards [what city? what TV
station? what date?]
|
|
|
?
|
John appears as panelist on 'Pop Quiz' TV
game show in UK (with Andy Fairweather-Low
and Martin Ware of Heaven 17)
|
|
|
?
|
John is featured on 'Rockschool' show, demonstrating
the 'Planet Earth' bass line; the show also
includes an interview with Bernard Edwards
and Nile Rodgers
|
|
|
?
|
John appears in print ads and commercials
(in Japan) for the Aria Pro II bass
|
|
| ? |
Nick
visits the Embassy Club in London, where he
meets Christopher Hamill (aka Limahl, lead singer
for Kajagoogoo) |
|
| ? |
Nick
produces Kajagoogoo album 'White Feathers'
at Chipping Norton and Utopia studios, where
Duran recorded their first album |
|
| Feb |
Kajagoogoo's
single 'Too Shy' {b/w 'Take Another View} hits
#1 in UK |
|
|
Feb
or Mar?
|
Simon, Nick and Andy appear on 'Saturday Superstore'
in the UK
|
|
| Mar
1 |
'Rio'
album goes gold |
|
| Mar
11 |
Video
album 'Duran Duran' released on VHS, Beta, and
laserdisc |
|
| Mar
19 |
'Is
There Something I Should Know' single released
worldwide, except in US {b/w 'Faith in this
Colour' - the original slow version with samples
from 'Star Wars'} |
|
| Mar
19 |
Duran performs 'Hungry Like The Wolf' and 'Girls
on Film' on 'Saturday Night Live' in the US,
|
|
| Mar
|
A
'Video 45' with videos for 'Girls on Film' and
'Hungry Like The Wolf' released in US. (The
VHS-format tape contains MTV-friendly "day
version" of 'Girls', while the Beta format
contains the uncensored "night version") |
|
| ?
|
At
a video signing at the Video Shack in Times
Square in New York City, the band is mobbed;
twelve mounted police are called in to break
up the crowd and the guys have to be smuggled
out the back |
|
| ?
|
John, Roger and Nick interviewed by New York's
Channel 7 news about the mob at the video signing |
|
| Mar
? |
'Is
There Something I Should Know' single enters
UK charts at #1, remains for three weeks |
|
| Mar
|
'Rio' single reissued in US {Kershenbaum 7"
remix of 'Rio', b/w 'Hold Back The Rain (remix)'} |
|
|
?
|
Band lip-synchs performance of 'Hungry Like
The Wolf' and 'Is There Something I Should
Know' on the 'Oxford Road Show' TV program
in UK; answers fan questions
|
|
| Mar
31 |
'Top
of the Pops' airs Duran's lip-synch performance
of
'Is There Something I Should Know' |
 |
|
?
|
Band lip-synchs 'Is There Something I Should
Know' on the 'Kenny Everett Video Show' in
UK
|
|
|
?
|
Band lip-synchs 'Is There Something I Should
Know' on the 'Riverside Show' in UK
|
|
| Apr
2 |
'Rio'
single peaks at #14 in US |
|
| Apr
|
'Duran
Duran' album repackaged with new photos and
re-released worldwide (with 'Is There Something
I Should Know' added and 'To The Shore' dropped);
it is the first Duran album available on CD |
|
| Apr
26 |
'Rio'
album goes platinum in US (1 million units sold) |
|
| Apr |
Simon and Nick are Guest VJs on MTV, with Andy
Warhol as their guest; the rest of the band
appears at the end to present their gold record
for the 'Rio' album to MTV as a thank you for
helping them break in America |
|
| |
Re-release
of 'Duran Duran' album peaks at #10 in US |
|
| Apr |
Kajagoogoo's
'Too Shy' single released in the US |
|
| Apr-May |
Band
takes 2-month break at a chateau in Cannes on
the Cote d'Azure in France |
|
| May
5 |
'Top
of the Pops' airs Duran's lip-synch performance
of
'Is There Something I Should Know' |
|
| May |
Duran
begins writing new songs; several demo tracks
are recorded, including the song 'Seven and
the Ragged Tiger', later to become 'The Seventh
Stranger' |
|
| ? |
With his bass tracks completed, John parties
in Cannes every night; the band often doesn't
start working until 4:00 pm, and are lucky to
get an hour-and-a-half of work done each day |
|
| May
7-May 18 |
Band
members visit Cannes film festival |
|
| May |
'Is
There Something I Should Know' single released
in US {b/w 'Careless Memories'} |
|
| May |
Missing
Persons plays the "Us Festival"
in Southern California |
|
| May |
Duran begins five weeks of recording at George
Martin's Air Studios in Montserrat, hoping to
become more focused |
|
| June
4 |
'Is
There Something I Should Know' single peaks
at #4 in US |
|
| ? |
John
and Roger visit Tokyo |
|
|
summer
|
WNBC Music Magazine airs a Duran profile,
including interviews with John, Andy and Roger
|
|
| Jun
20 |
Duran
records 'The Reflex' (with the help of a couple
of bottles of John's birthday champagne) |
|
| Jun
21 |
Jools
Holland interviews the band in Fréjus,
France for British TV special 'A Midsummer Night's
Tube'; includes a 'Faith in This Colour' promo
video |
|
| ? |
Baktabak
'Interview Disk' issued - a vinyl picture disk
containing an interview with Simon and Nick |
|
| Jul
19 |
The
band flies back to England from Montserrat via
Miami |
|
| Jul
20 |
Duran
Duran: Old
Dominion Theatre, London, England
A
command performance for Prince Charles and
Princess Diana; the show was plagued by sound
problems. It was later discovered that the
Irish Republican Army had laid plans to assassinate
the royals at this show. Bootlegged.
|
|
| Jul
22 |
'Duran
Duran' album goes gold (500,000 units sold) |
|
| Jul
23 |
Duran
Duran: Aston
Villa Football Grounds, Birmingham, England
A
benefit concert for MENCAP raises far less
money than expected; Paul, Michael and the
band each contribute £10,000 to make up the
difference. Bootlegged.
|
|
| Aug |
Band returns to Montserrat for another month
of recording; they only get one "useful"
song |
|
| Aug |
Nick suffers an attack of "paroxysmal tachycardia"
(abnormally fast heartbeat); attributed at the
time to stress and/or sun poisoning; he is airlifted
off the island in a helicopter for treatment |
|
| end
Aug |
Band
moves recording and mixing to 301 Studios, Sydney |
|
| |
John shares an apartment in Sydney with producer
Alex Sadkin |
|
| ? |
Alex Sadkin returns to the apartment to ask
John to re-do the bass on a song for which the
chords have been changed; John reacts by smashing
a glass shower door (he later claims that this
was where he began planning the Power Station
project) |
|
| Sep
? |
John's
BMW spins out of control and crashes on the
Sydney Harbour Bridge; he escapes without injury |
|
| |
When
they get homesick, Andy and John visit at Gerry
Laffy's Sydney apartment for home-cooked English
dinners |
|
| ? |
John
is hospitalized for two days with "nose
trouble" |
|
| Sep |
Band
films 'Union of the Snake' video near Sydney,
using 35mm film (a first for videos) |
|
| Oct |
Simon, Andy and Russell Mulcahy interviewed
on the set of the 'Union of the Snake' video,
for Australian TV [show?] |
|
| Oct |
The
band works at mixing the 'Union' single right
up to the last minute, leaving themselves only
24 hours to write, record and mix 'Secret Oktober'
for the b-side |
|
| |
Duran
flies in Bengal tiger for a £65,000 album
cover and tour program photo shoot |
|
| Oct
10 |
'Union
of the Snake' video released to MTV a week before
radio receives the single, amid much protest
from radio stations, who feared that video would
supplant radio in the promo game |
|
| Oct
17 |
'Union
of the Snake' single released worldwide {b/w
'Secret Oktober'} |
|
?
[a Tues] |
Duran does an interview in Sydney for the 'Peter
Powell Down Under' special on Radio 1 ['Union'
was #8 on the Australian charts at the time] |
|
| ?
|
John, Roger and Nick accept an award for "most
popular international act" in Australia;
Molly Meldrum interviews |
|
| Oct |
Rehearsals
for Sing Blue Silver tour begin at Sydney Showgrounds |
|
| Oct
27 |
'Top
of the Pops' airs Duran's lip-synch performance
of
'Union of the Snake' |
|
| Oct
29 |
'Union
of the Snake' single peaks at #3 in UK |
|
| Nov
5 |
'Union
of the Snake' single peaks at #3 in US |
|
| Nov |
John and Roger tape intro to 'Hungry Like The
Wolf' video for US TV show 'Friday Night Videos'
|
|
| Nov |
Simon, Nick and Roger interviewed by Molly Meldrum
for 'Countdown Australia' TV show |
|
| |
The
SING BLUE SILVER Tour
The
tour begins with sold-out shows in Australia
|
|
| Nov
12 |
Duran
Duran: National
Indoor Sports Centre, Canberra, Australia
|
|
| Nov
16 |
Duran
Duran: Sydney
Entertainment Centre, Sydney, Australia
(with
The Little Heroes)
INXS attended the show with
their girlfriends
|
 |
| Nov
19 |
Duran
Duran: Festival
Hall, Brisbane, Australia
bootlegged |
 |
| Nov
20 |
Duran
Duran: Festival
Hall, Brisbane, Australia |
|
| Nov
21 |
'Seven
and the Ragged Tiger' album released worldwide |
|
| Nov
22 |
Duran
Duran: Melbourne
Sports and Entertainment Center, Melbourne,
Australia |
|
| Nov
23 |
Duran
Duran: Melbourne
Sports and Entertainment Center, Melbourne,
Australia |
|
| Nov
24 |
Duran
Duran: Memorial
Drive Tennis Courts, Adelaide, Australia |
|
| Nov
27 |
Duran
Duran: Entertainments
Centre, Perth, Australia |
|
| Nov
|
Simon
(27) and Canadian
model and actress Claire
Stansfield (20) buy an apartment together in
her hometown of Toronto |
|
| ?
|
Nick
buys house in London |
|
| ?
|
John tries and fails to get a date with model
Yasmin Parveneh |
|
| fall
? |
Simon and Nick interviewed on UK TV show 'London
Calling' |
|
| Dec
3 |
'Seven'
enters UK charts at #1 |
|
| Dec
6 |
Duran
Duran:
Apollo, Manchester, England |
|
| Dec
7 |
Duran
Duran:
Apollo, Manchester, England |
|
| Dec
8 |
Duran
Duran: Queens
Hall, Leeds, England |
|
|
?
|
'Oxford Road Show' in UK shows behind-the-scenes
clips from the tour
|
|
| Dec
9 |
Andy
opens a wine bar named 'Rio' in Whitley Bay,
near his hometown |
|
| Dec
10 |
'Seven'
peaks at #8 in US |
|
| Dec
10 |
Duran
Duran: Royal
Highland Exhibition Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland |
|
| Dec
11 |
Duran
Duran: Queens
Hall, Leeds, England |
|
| Dec
12 |
Duran
Duran: National
Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, England
one of the two NEC shows
was taped for 'The Tube' TV show, along with
interviews with Simon, Nick and John [anyone
know which one was filmed?] |
|
| Dec
13 |
Duran
Duran: National
Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, England |
|
| Dec
? |
A live clip of 'The Reflex' from the Birmingham
NEC show is aired on German television |
|
| Dec
15 |
Duran
Duran: Brighton
Centre, Brighton, England |
|
| Dec
16 |
Duran
Duran: Brighton
Centre, Brighton, England |
|
| Dec
18 |
Duran
Duran: Wembley
Arena, London, England |
|
| Dec
19 |
Duran
Duran: Wembley
Arena, London, England |
|
| Dec
20 |
Duran
Duran: Wembley
Arena, London, England |
|
| Dec
22 |
Duran
Duran: Wembley
Arena, London, England |
|
| Dec
23 |
Duran
Duran: Wembley
Arena, London, England |
|
| Dec
24 |
On
the strength of the British tour, 'Union' re-enters
the UK charts and peaks at #66 |
|
| Dec
25 |
'Top
of the Pops' airs Duran's lip-synch performance
of
'Is There Something I Should Know' |
|
| ? |
John
(a devoted James Bond fan) begins dating actress
Janine Andrews (best known for her role in 'Octopussy') |
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