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Duran Duran Crown an Afternoon of Crowd-Pleasing Pop Bangers in Hyde Park
The band opened with “Is There Something I Should Know?” and played 65,000 fans as they mixed classics with newer songs.
- On Sunday, Duran Duran headlined BST Hyde Park with a two-hour set spanning their extensive catalog of hits, delivering precision-tooled pop that has endured long beyond the band's 1980s era.
- Frontman Bon recently asserted the band deserves headliner status at Glastonbury, noting they have refused inferior offers over their more than 45-year career amid critic skepticism about competing at pop's top table.
- The set featured OTT The Reflex and a performance of Ordinary World dedicated to the England football team, accompanied by fire dancers and high-tech production values that defined the show.
- Supporting acts including Nile Rodgers, The Scissor Sisters, and Mel C provided a lineup of 'wall to wall crowd-pleasers' for the sunny afternoon event, creating an arm-waving singalong atmosphere.
- With over 100 million album sales and 15 million monthly Spotify listeners, the band demonstrates enduring commercial relevance, justifying their aspirations for top-tier festival billing at pop's highest level.
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In the run up to Duran Duran’s second British Summer Time show at Hyde Park in five years, Simon Le Bon caused something of a stir online when he said that the band want to play Glastonbury – but only if they headline. “We shouldn’t be below anybody on the bill,” he said, revealing over the years they have refused inferior offers. There was a bit of scornful pushback (something they’ve long been used to), which tended along the lines of: does th…
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