Duran Duran’s only other work that year was an appearance on the Band-Aid charity single “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” which was recorded at Sarm West Studios in Notting Hill, London on 25 November 1984. By mid-1984, the band was ready for a break. Each album release was accompanied by heavy media promotion and a lengthy concert tour. Three more albums followed in quick succession: Rio (1982), Seven and the Ragged Tiger (1983) and the live album Arena (1984). The band’s first album, Duran Duran, was released in 1981, and they quickly became famous as part of the New Romantic movement. Le Bon agreed to “try Duran Duran out for the summer” within six weeks the band was playing steadily around Birmingham, London and Nottingham, and a national tour supporting Hazel O’Connor led to a record deal with EMI Records in December that year. As band legend has it, he turned up for the audition wearing pink leopard-print trousers and carrying a notebook containing a large collection of poems he had written-several of which would later become tracks on the early Duran Duran albums.Īfter listening to the songs the band had already composed together, Simon Le Bon spent some time fitting one of his poems (“Sound of Thunder”) to one of the instrumentals and found they had a good match. Le Bon’s ex-girlfriend, Fiona Kemp (a barmaid at the Rum Runner nightclub where Duran Duran was rehearsing), introduced him to the band in May 1980, recommending him as a potential vocalist. ![]() The band had a powerful pop sound flavoured with disco, funk, and electronics, built on a solid rock rhythm section, and all they needed was a charismatic singer with a distinctive voice. The band went through a long succession of lineup changes after Duffy’s departure but finally settled on a guitarist and drummer. Le Bon worked on a kibbutz – an Israeli collective community – in the Negev desert in Israel in 1978, and then returned to England to study drama at the University of Birmingham before meeting the fledgling band Duran Duran in 1980.ĭuran Duran was founded by childhood friends John Taylor and Nick Rhodes along with singer/songwriter Stephen Duffy in 1978, but Duffy left a year later, convinced they weren’t going anywhere. He appeared in a few television commercials and also in several theatre productions including Tom Brown’s Schooldays in the West End of London. Simon Le Bon worked as a theatre porter at Northwick Park Hospital Accident and Casualty, and also sang in a punk band called Dog Days at Harrow School Of Art. In 1978 he completed an art foundation course at Harrow School of Art, before studying drama at the University of Birmingham. He also attended Nower Hill High School, his mother’s former school. Le Bon went to Pinner County Grammar School in Pinner, London, the same school Elton John had attended some years earlier. Le Bon was a member of the local church choir from a young age, and was trained as an actor. His mother encouraged his artistic talent when he was six years old by entering him in a screen test for a Persil washing powder TV advert. Simon is the first of three boys for Ann-Marie Le Bon, followed by his younger brothers, David and Jonathan (b. His birthday fall on his father’s birthday as well. Simon John Charles Le Bon was born on Octo(age 64 years) in Bushey, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. Musician, Singer, Songwriter, Lyricist, Model ![]() Le Bon has received three Ivor Novello Awards from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, including the award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music. ![]() ![]() He is best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the band Duran Duran and its offshoot Arcadia. Simon Le Bon is an English musician, singer, songwriter, lyricist and model.
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