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San Jose, CA Music Saved My Life
It is not a joke when I say 'music saved my life'. Actually I should say Duran Duran saved my life.I met my father when I was 8 when he took me out of a...
Read Memory Topeka, KS Our Song!
This is the song that played at the club when we just started dating. We loved it and still do...
Read Memory Columbia, SC Duran Duran,...
When all five original Brummies got back together for 2004's Astronaut, the results were anything but cosmic. Then, when founding father Andy Taylor left...
Read Memory New York, NY Hungry Like The Wolf
I'm sitting on a bench that overlooks the Pacific Ocean at Santa Cruz. The day's over and I'm waiting for my sullen older brother to pull up in his car....
Read Memory Loveland, OH rockin' on the beach
I remember when I was a kid, my sisters had a friend whose parents owned a beachhouse in Panama City, FL (before spring breakers ruined it.) Every summer, we...
Read Memory Douglasville, GA The Song With the Funny Sound
I think this has to be the weirdest way I have ever been introduced to the music of a popular artist or band. One day in 1997 my father had purchased a Duran...
Read Memory Racine, WI The Chauffer
Duran Duran has a song on the Rio album called The Chauffer. It is the very last track on the first side(I had the tape) and the song is a mechanic's wet...
Read Memory Racine, WI The Reflex
Duran Duran took their name after a character in the campy sci-fi sexy Jane Fonda movie Barbarella(the group later had a single called Electric...
Read Memory Vancouver, BC Negotiations
I lived in an apartment building in downtown Calgary and there was a little room with a chute for tenants to put their garbage in. In this room people would...
Read Memory Neptune Beach, FL Stepfather Memory
This was a classic song to listen to around my preteen age. My step dad was pretty much a music fiend and my mom was too, and Duran Duran was one of the MANY...
Read Memory Roseland, NJ The Night I Dissed Keith Richards
Why does the worst Duran Duran song of all time remind me of Keith Richards? It was 1984 and I was insane about Duran Duran. They were coming to the...
Read Memory Port Angeles, WA Is Anybody Hungry?
This song kickstarted my adolescence. Before Duran Duran, I had normal preteen crushes...Ricky Schroeder, Luke Skywalker. Yes, Luke Skywalker. So...
Read Memory Doing "The Reflex"
When I was a teen it often became customary for my friends and I to "create" new dances to our favorite songs. One of my favorites became...
Read Memory New York, NY leaving school
knew it was time to leave Lycoming. my time there ran it's course. played this on my last radio show. was constantly playing it thinking of going home again...
Read Memory Jerseyville, IL The River's Edge
My cousin Lisa is two years younger than me, and when we were growing up we were more like sisters than cousins, with her almost always at my house, or vice...
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