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Duran Duran: There's Something You Should Know

Celebrating Duran Duran with exclusive backstage access, interviews with the band and rare footage charting their rise to fame, and the highs and lows of their amazing career.

With exclusive access, the band open up about their extraordinary career and talk candidly about the highs and lows they have endured together over four long decades. This is the band at their most relaxed, intimate and honest. We spend time with John at his LA home, Simon pays a visit to his former choir master, Roger goes back to where it all started in Birmingham, and Nick dusts off some of the 10,000 fashion items that the band have meticulously catalogued and collected over the course of their career. Joining the conversation is fellow new romantic and singer Boy George, lifelong fan and record producer Mark Ronson, friend, fan and supermodel Cindy Crawford, and Highlander film director Russell Mulcahy.

Charting their trajectory over four decades, the story is told through seven of their albums. Each record uncovers a compelling chapter in the band’s journey - the fame, the fortune, the melt downs, the hits, the flops, the exotic videos, the tours, the fans, the partying and the supermodels.

59 minutes

Last on

Sat 17 Apr 2021 01:30
BBC Four

Music Played

Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

  • 00:01

    Duran Duran

    Is There Something I Should Know?

  • 00:01

    Duran Duran

    Girls On Film

  • 00:01

    Duran Duran, Simon Le Bon

    The Reflex

  • 00:02

    Duran Duran

    Rio

  • 00:02

    Duran Duran

    Notorious

  • 00:02

    Duran Duran

    Planet Earth

  • 00:05

    The Clash

    White Riot

  • 00:06

    Mick Ronson

    I'm The One

  • 00:06

    Duran Duran

    Anyone Out There

  • 00:08

    Duran Duran

    Shadows On Your Side

  • 00:12

    Duran Duran

    What Happens Tomorrow (Album Version)

  • 00:14

    Duran Duran

    Friends of Mine

  • 00:16

    Duran Duran

    Careless Memories

  • 00:15

    Duran Duran

    Skin Trade

  • 00:17

    Duran Duran

    My Own Way

  • 00:19

    Duran Duran

    Lonely In Your Nightmare

  • 00:21

    Duran Duran

    Sound Of Thunder

  • 00:23

    Duran Duran

    Save A Prayer

  • 00:29

    Duran Duran

    The Chauffeur (Blue Silver)

  • 00:29

    Duran Duran

    Hungry Like The Wolf

  • 00:31

    Duran Duran

    Rio

  • 00:32

    Duran Duran

    Rio

  • 00:33

    Duran Duran

    Union Of The Snake

  • 00:41

    Duran Duran

    New Moon On Monday

  • 00:45

    Duran Duran

    Come Undone

  • 00:46

    Duran Duran

    Ordinary World

  • 00:48

    Duran Duran

    Chains (Album Version)

  • 00:49

    Duran Duran

    Astronaut (Album Version)

  • 00:52

    Duran Duran

    (Reach Up For The) Sunrise

  • 00:57

    Duran Duran

    Pressure Off

Credits

Participant Simon Le Bon
Participant John Taylor
Participant Roger Taylor
Participant Nick Rhodes
Participant Boy George
Participant Mark Ronson
Participant Cindy Crawford
Participant Russell Mulcahy
Executive Producer David Notman-Watt
Producer Zoe Dobson
Director Zoe Dobson
Production Company Back2Back Productions

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