List of Duran Duran concert tours
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This page includes the concert tours by British band Duran Duran
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Other tidbits:
Duran Duran
Duran Duran are an English band, formed in Birmingham in 1978. They were one of the most successful bands of the 1980s and a leading band in the MTV-driven "Second British Invasion" of the United States...
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The tours
| Year | Title | Format |
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| 1981 | The Faster Than Light Tour | |
| 1981 | The Careless Memories Tour | |
| 1982 | The Rio Tour | |
| 1983–1984 | The Sing Blue Silver Tour | VHS, LaserDisc, DVD |
| 1987 | The Strange Behaviour Tour | VHS |
| 1988 | Clubland USA (Caravan Club Tour) | |
| 1988–1989 | The Big Live Thing/The Electric Theatre Tour | |
| 1993 | An Acoustic Evening with Duran Duran | |
| 1993–1994 | No Ordinary Tour | |
| 1995 | Thank You Tour | |
| 1997 | Ultra Chrome, Latex and Steel Tour | |
| 1998 | The Greatest and Latest Tour | |
| 1999 | The Let It Flow Tour | |
| 2000 | Pop Trash Tour | |
| 2001 | Up Close and Personal Tour | |
| 2003–2004 | Reunion/25th Anniversary Tour | |
| 2005-2006 | Astronaut Tour | DVD |
| 2007-2008 | Red Carpet Massacre Tour | |
| 2011-2012 | All You Need Is Now Tour All You Need Is Now Tour All You Need Is Now Tour is an ongoing worldwide concert tour by English New Wave band Duran Duran in support of the group's 13th studio album, All You Need Is Now, which was released exclusively on iTunes on 21 December 2010 and the expanded physical album and various format special packages will... |
Trivia
Duran Duran typically change the set list around somewhat. The only songs they have never performed live are:- Faith In The Colour (B-Side Is There Something I Should Know)
- So Misled (Notorious)
- Proposition (Notorious)
- We Need You (B-Side Skin Trade)
- Land (Big Thing)
- I Believe/All I Need To Know (B-Side All She Wants Is)
- Violence Of Summer (Liberty)
- Liberty (Liberty)
- Hothead (Liberty)
- All Along the Water (Liberty)
- My Antarctica (Liberty)
- Read My Lips (Liberty)
- Can You Deal With It (Liberty - John Taylor Played On Solo Tour)
- Downtown (Liberty)
- Drowning Man (The Wedding Album - John Taylor Played On Solo Tour)
- Shotgun (The Wedding Album)
- Femme Fatale (The Wedding Album)
- None of the Above (The Wedding Album)
- Shelter (The Wedding Album)
- To Whom It May Concern (The Wedding Album)
- Sin Of The City (The Wedding Album- John Taylor Played On Solo Tour)
- Time For Temptation (B-Side Come Undone)
- Stop Dead (B-Side Come Undone)
- Falling Angel (B-Side Come Undone)
- Watching The Detectives (Thank You)
- Ball Of Confusion (Thank You)
- Diamond Dogs (Thank You Bonus Track)
- Midnight Sun (Medazzaland)
- Undergoing Treatment (Medazzaland)
- Ball And Chain (Medazzaland Bonus Track)
- The Sun Doesn't Shine Forever (Pop Trash)
- One Of Those Days (Astronaut)
- Know It All (B-Side Sunrise)
- Cry Baby Cry (Red Carpet Massacre Bonus Track)
- Too Close To The Sun (All You Need Is Now Bonus Track)
- Early Summer Nerves(All You Need Is Now Bonus Track)
- The Lost Weekend (All You Need Is Now Bonus Track)
Other tidbits:
- Save A Prayer has been performed and sung by Simon Le Bon, John Taylor and Andy Taylor.
- Get It On (Bang A Gong) has been performed and sung by Simon Le Bon, John Taylor and Andy Taylor.
- Election Day is the only Arcadia song ever performed live.
- Duran Duran have played more Power Station songs live (Get it On & Some Like it Hot) and more often than Election Day which had more members perform on it.
- Come Up and See Me, Secret Oktober, and Late Bar are the only b-sides performed in recent history (last decade).
- On the 1993–1994 tour, Duran Duran radically altered Hungry Like The Wolf, Girls On Film, Save A Prayer, and several other songs.
- Prior to 2003, the band had never played Wild Boys with all five original members live.
- On the 2003–2004 tour the band played several songs that were never released (Virus, Beautiful Colours).
- From 2003–2005, the band played every song off the first album at some point, including Tel Aviv (Orlando, FL).
Notable concerts
| Year | Title | Format |
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| 1983 | Duran Duran`s charity concert at Aston Villa football ground 1983 | |
| 1985 | Live Aid Live Aid Live Aid was a dual-venue concert that was held on 13 July 1985. The event was organized by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for relief of the ongoing Ethiopian famine. Billed as the "global jukebox", the event was held simultaneously in Wembley Stadium in London, England, United Kingdom ... : 20 Years Ago Today |
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| 2005 | Live 8 Live 8 Live 8 was a string of benefit concerts that took place on 2 July 2005, in the G8 states and in South Africa. They were timed to precede the G8 Conference and summit held at the Gleneagles Hotel in Auchterarder, Scotland from 6–8 July 2005; they also coincided with the 20th anniversary of Live Aid... – One Day One Concert One World |
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| 2006 | Nobel Prize Awards Nobel Prize The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895... |
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| 2006 | Torino Olympics 2006 Winter Olympics The 2006 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XX Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated in Turin, Italy from February 10, 2006, through February 26, 2006. This marked the second time Italy hosted the Olympic Winter Games, the first being the VII Olympic Winter... |
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| 2007 | Concert for Diana Concert for Diana Concert for Diana was a concert held at the then new Wembley Stadium in London, England, United Kingdom in honour of Diana, Princess of Wales, on 1 July 2007, which would have been her 46th birthday; 31 August that year brought the 10th anniversary of her death... |
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| 2007 | Live Earth Live Earth concert, London The Live Earth concert in the United Kingdom was held at Wembley Stadium, London, England on 7 July 2007.-Running order:In order of appearance :... |
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| 2011 | Unstaged with David Lynch, Los Angeles, CA | You Tube |