Duran Duran was one of the seminal groups of the 1980s, with record sales topping 70 million. With their punk roots, state-of-the-art videos, and notoriously hedonistic lifestyle, they captivated audiences around the world. This new book traces their remarkable story: their rise to fame, their split in 1985, and the ensuing splinter groups, drug addiction, and rehabilitation. In 2001, the original five members regrouped and are enjoying a level of recognition and popularity that few serious music critics would have predicted. Their mixture of synth and swagger has ultimately triumphed due to the core friendships of the band, their flair for memorable pop hooks, and an ambition that dwarfed most of their contemporaries.

Duran Duran: Notorious

Malins, Steve

Humor & Entertainment

Andre Deutsch

In the last couple of years, Duran Duran has scooped MTV’s Lifetime Achievement Award, played sold-out stadium gigs in America, Britain, and Japan, and enjoyed feature coverage in Rolling Stone and Vogue. Not bad for a band who were at the height of their fame in the 1980s. This reference offers a look at their remarkable career, including exclusive interviews and photos.

Duran Duran: Notorious - The Unauthorised Biography

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Written with the band's co-operation, Steve Malins' biography throws light on this private, frequently misunderstood group and their lives, which have been bizarre, hilarious, extreme and destructive through nearly 20 years of constant success and excessive celebration. Now fully updated and expanded with an additional 10,000 words, new cover and enlarged format, this new edition will coincide with the band's first world tour in over 3 years as they promote their brand new album "Playing the Angel".

Depeche Mode: Black Celebration: The Biography

Revised, expanded, and updated, the tale of an enigmatic band, from humble beginnings through the destructive highs and magnificent lows to worldwide adulation as the masters of electric pop
Written with the band's cooperation, this biography throws light on this private, frequently misunderstood group and their lives, which have been bizarre, hilarious, extreme, and destructive through three decades of success and excessive celebration. It reveals three completely different personalities that form Depeche Mode: reckless, flamboyant Gahan; quiet, artistic Gore; and pragmatic, confrontational Fletcher. Since the 1980s the threesome has survived frequently colliding egos, marriages, the departure of band members Vince Clarke and Alan Wilder, and the bizarre vicissitudes of global fame, to create a working partnership that has lasted for decades—here is their story.

Depeche Mode: A Biography

An exhaustive, revelatory account of the band's tumultuous career
From their conceptual birth in Hollywood (Birmingham, England, that is) through to their current contemporary relevance, influencing such acts as the Dandy Warhols and Scissor Sisters, this is the epic Duran Duran story. It includes via encounters with Andy Warhol, Liz Hurley, Michael Jackson, Bono and many more. It covers the groundbreaking songs and music videos, the hype and awards, the ascent to playboy rockers, and the rehab, nervous breakdowns, and near-death experiences. It also discusses how the band's core friendships, memorable pop hooks, and continued ambition that has kept them thriving. The author conducted more than 50 exclusive interviews in his search for the secret to the band's longevity.

Duran Duran: Wild Boys

Gary Numan

Numan, Gary

Andre Deutsch Ltd.

Paul Weller first found fame as a member of "The Jam", the mod-suited threesome that hurtled out of Woking and into the punk maelstrom in 1977. Over the next 20 years Weller would split "The Jam", form "The Style Council", actively campaign for the Labour Party and striking miners, lose both fights and rebuild his fan base and ultimately rediscover his mod roots to become the most important elder statesman (the self-professed "Modfather") of the British pop industry. Along the way Weller gained and lost friends, married, fathered children and divorced, helped his father through illness and bankruptcy, and resurrected a career which long seemed dead. This is the story of the man's life both in and outside of music. Author Steve Mallins has talked to friends, collaborators, enemies and admirers to form this intimate portrait of one of rock's biggest come-back successes.

Paul Weller: The Unauthorised Biography

London Bridge

Bursting onto the pop music scene during the British electronic pop craze at the beginning of the 80s, and enjoying success and longevity greater than any of their kindred bands, Depeche Mode continues to bring music to the masses through their albums and world tours. In Depeche Mode: A Biography , rock writer Steve Malins goes back to the beginning, when David Gahan, Martin Gore, and Andrew Fletcher were teenagers in the suburbs of London, in a time when synthesizers were gaining ground in the wake of punk rock. Their catchy compositions would heavily influence much of the electronically-driven popular music that followed-and their albums Black Celebration and Violator would ignite a storm of worldwide adulation. Malins reveals the union of three completely different personalities that forms Depeche Mode: The reckless, flamboyant Gahan, the quiet, artistic Gore, and the pragmatic, confrontational Fletcher. Since the 80s the threesome has survived frequently colliding egos, marriages, the departure of band members Vince Clarke and Alan Wilder, and the bizarre vicissitudes of global fame, to create a working partnership that has lasted for decades. Depeche Mode: A Biography sheds light on the trials and tensions that the band has lived through, from the rigorous Devotional tour, during which Gahan, Fletcher, and Wilder were hospitalized at different times, to Gahan's insane adventures living in Los Angeles and his near-fatal drug overdose in 1995. Written with the band's cooperation, Depeche Mode: A Biography is a remarkable story of music, fame, and excess, a must-read for DM fans who just can't get enough.

Cooper Square Press

Duran Duran Notorious

SevenOaks

Depeche Mode - Die Biografie

Arts & Photography

Music

Hannibal Verlag GmbH

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Duran Duran: Notorious

Duran Duran: Notorious - The Unauthorised Biography

Depeche Mode: Black Celebration: The Biography

Depeche Mode: A Biography

Duran Duran: Wild Boys

Gary Numan

Paul Weller: The Unauthorised Biography

Depeche Mode: A Biography

Duran Duran Notorious

Depeche Mode - Die Biografie