![]() Tallulah gave me a few starting points and I loved falling down those rabbit holes on Spotify. It’s very easy to go “modern music isn’t what it used to be” – you know, that Jeremy Clarkson attitude. I realised I need to open my ears up I need some new music. She instilled a love of performance and music in her eldest son. Pretty soon you find that you’re only listening to the music you’re working on and the music that got you into a band in the first place: Patti Smith, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, the Sex Pistols, The Doors, a few things from the ’90s and a few things that I picked up along the way. Le Bon claimed that his mother was on track to become a professional singer but married young and raised a family instead. It starts with you coming out of a studio after an eight-hour session, getting into the taxi at 2am and the driver goes, “What do you want to listen to?” And you say, “You know what, you might just leave it off, I’ve been listening to music all day.” I do like music, but I know what she means. I remember coming downstairs one morning and my daughter had BBC Radio 6 on and I’m like, “Oh, I can’t have breakfast with this sort of thing on.”Īnd she said, “Dad, call yourself a musician. I think the year of lockdown made us all re-evaluate the job, really. I understand your daughter Tallulah (Le Bon’s youngest daughter with his wife of 35 years, former model Yasmin Le Bon) had an accidental influence on that. The album bridges the Duran Duran of the 1980s with the sound of now. ![]() Simon Le Bon at the height of Duran Duran’s fame in 1984.
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