Duran Duran

Duran Duran
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Take a cruise with us as we sit down with a couple of gentlemen who were named the Style Icons of the 20th Century - Nick Rhodes and Roger Taylor of Duran Duran! The band is in SXSW spreading the word about their album 'All You Need Is Now', and these music video pioneers are a perfect match for the BlackBerry PlayBook! Hosted by Jessica Smith.
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It's absolutely the coolest tablet. That's cool actually. Oh yeah, have you seen Just stop. Just stop here. I mean like just go to the pub. Go to the pub. Hey guys, I'm here with Duran Duran, Nick Rose and Roger Taylor and I don't know about y'all, but I heard that when you're on a boat it's all by Southwest you need a little protection, you know? Very fetching. It is. I'm glad we didn't have to wear one though. I mean, I don't know. You guys seem like, you know, you're going to be able to protect me.
We'll jump in and save you.
So you know, I'm hoping so. I really am. You guys are here at South by Southwest. You've never been able to perform here for my understanding of it. You're promoting your new album. To dance record, but with sort of rock guitars and lots of pulsing synthesizers. And you guys are also doing the American Express backstage. Tell me a little bit about that because David Lynch is going to be there.
Yeah, I mean, yeah, I mean, uh he's one of our heroes and uh it's always good to work with somebody that you admire so much. There's not that many people that can do that for us these days, that give us that, you know, that wow factor.
It seems to me like you guys are always like kind of like a pioneer because you guys are one of the first people that ever, you know, did video technology out on tour and then this right here is actually the BlackBerry playbook. So you can go do anything. This right here is one of the games, it's called Need for Speed. Need for Speed. Need for Speed. I will hold your mic and I think you need to play it. Go on. That blew your mind. I know. Oh yeah, that's right there. Yeah, all of it's touchscreen, it's absolutely the coolest tablet. That's cool actually. Oh yeah, have you seen Just stop. Just stop. I mean like go to the pub, go to the pub. And then just to get out of it, do like that and then look. Look who we have on there. Who knew? I like it so much more now. He's very cool actually. You guys are also known as like, you know, style icons and you just got awarded, you know, style icons of the 20th century. Like what does that mean to you guys?
I think it's pretty. I'm not quite sure actually. I think it's pretty cool. It was uh yeah, we were in Milan and um and the mayor of Milan gave us this um award, which I think they invented that week actually but yeah. But we're But you're sure you've never heard of. I don't nobody else has ever had it but I I think they are going to give away some more.
They also give you a key to the city. Am I correct on that one? In Milan. I heard that they gave you the key to the city. I thought that actually.
That was a skeleton key. Yeah, yeah, it's a skeleton key. Uh we didn't actually get the keys to the city. We got We have some keys to Los Angeles somewhere too, when we got the star on Sunset. I don't quite know what that means.
I don't either. But in my mind, you just walk in a bank or somebody's bedroom or
Yes. Yes, that is what I'm hoping for in my mind. It's that gate in Bel Air. Open that nobody else.
Yeah, you can just like walk in there and be like, well, I have the key to the city. So.
Hi, I'm Roger Taylor and this is Nick Rhodes. We're from Duran Duran. Thank you for watching Young Hollywood.
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PEOPLE MENTIONED
- Nick Rhodes
Member of Duran Duran, interviewed guest
- Roger Taylor
Member of Duran Duran, interviewed guest
- Jessica Smith
Host of the interview
- David Lynch
Collaborator for American Express backstage
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