Killing at least five people, flooding towns and triggering a tsunami alert in california and hawaii. White house bound. The 14yearold arrested after teachers confused his homemade clock with a bomb accepts the president s invitation to visit. You going to the white house, my friend . Yes. This morning, that young man is speaking to us. Duran duran, one of the most successful bands of all time. Yes, the guys who adorned my room as a teenager are making dreams come true with a Live Performance today. Thursday, september 17th, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today. I didnt get much sleep. It was this Republican Debate. It was a little duran duran, too. A little jitters for meeting them. It was a long debate. There was substance, sar ccasm between the candidates. Well talk to Carly Fiorina about her performance. Lets get a blow by blow of the night from National Correspond
I believe it was Ziggy Stardust who sang
“it ain’t easyyyyyyy / it ain’t easyyyyyyyyy / it ain’t easyyy. to pull off the musical reinvention of going all electro”. What a self-fulfilling prophesy that turned out to be, as Mr Stardust discovered when he created the satirical washed-up rockstar character “David Bowie” and produced a drum ‘n’ bass album while dressed in a Union Jack overcoat.
Indeed, the act of “going electro” can so often reek of desperation, opportunism, cynicism, ineptitude, insincerity, insecurity, artificiality, charlatanism, unscrupulousness, creative constipation, etc., etc., etc. Yet there is one band who have pulled off this demanding trick with rare and enviable aplomb.