Other people were singing it happily, but I can’t imagine I was the only one who felt tears welling up as the stately beauty of it rang out into the sky. But for me, the stand-out moment was ‘Ordinary World’. Weirdly, it was their debut single ‘Planet Earth’ that really kicked things on to another level and got a total school disco vibe going. And of course John Taylor was always suave and rakish. Simon Le Bon, who I always liked because he tended to a pudgy, well-fed, boozy, lived-in face, has kept the weight off and can still wear a pair of white jeans as well as a man half his age. We’ve still got it.Īnd indeed Duran Duran helped matters. We relaxed into an unspoken agreement that, yes, we are all old, but we aren’t really. I would hesitate to think the people at a Duran Duran gig are my tribe, but we were all roughly the same age, and there weren’t too many young people around judging us, so we didn’t feel uncool. When we got into the area where the gig was taking place it was like walking back 30 years. There was a bit of a walk through St Anne’s Park to where the gig was, but there were plenty of toilet blocks en route. There was no way any of the rest of the party was going to spend more time than necessary in a situation where you might have to queue for toilets and for the bar. I personally would have gone earlier to see support act Sinead O’Brien, who is my new current musical obsession, but I knew I was on a loser there. The next step in the civilised process of going to a gig in middle age was a nice meal and a bottle of wine before getting a taxi to as near as we could get to the gig. ‘Ordinary World’ sends a chill up my spine every time, especially the epic, plaintive guitar riff. The glorious melancholy probably peaked around the time of the so-called ‘Wedding Album’. And indeed they got better at it as they got older.
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I have come to accept as I get older that while I like joyous music well enough, the music I love is melancholic music, music that mines the beauty hidden in sadness.Īnd Duran Duran, when you listen without prejudice, actually made fundamentally sad music. I stuck on Duran Duran’s greatest hits for the run and I contemplated how when you take the music out of the context of Smash Hits and hysteria and pastel suits, it’s actually quite melancholy music, with atonal sounds and minor keys.
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First, I went for a run and cleared my head. Going to a gig has a different routine when you are middle-aged.
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