Duran Duran Releasing New Album, 'All You Need Is Now' Digitally in December

Duran Duran will release its 13th album, All You Need Is Now, as an iTunes digital exclusive December 21, followed by a physical release on CD and special packages (vinyl?) in February 2011 with additional tracks.

Duran Duran 2010 - Photo by Stephanie Pistel

The nine-track digital release was produced by Mark Ronson (Amy Winehouse, Adele, Kaiser Chiefs, Lily Allen) and features four original members of Duran Duran - John Taylor, Roger Taylor, Nick Rhodes and Simon Le Bon 
The first single from the record is the title track “All You Need Is Now,” available worldwide on December 14 exclusively on the iTunes Store. 
The album is said to be a return-to-roots.  According to the band, it was born out of a special show in 2008.
Duran Duran was headlining festivals in a number of countries, playing arenas in others, and then became the first group to perform at the Louvre Museum in Paris. Two nights later in the city of lights, the band offered its most loyal Duranies there a specially created “mega-mix” one-hour set that was filmed in a tiny theatre, with long-time-fan Ronson.  Feeling there was strong chemistry between the gorup and Ronson, he agreed to produce its next album and work began in late Spring of 2009, at Sphere Studios in London. Ronson calls  “imaginary follow up to Rio that never was.”
The album features guest vocals/rap from longtime Duran Duran friend/collaborator Ana Matronic of the Scissor Sisters, while Owen Pallett of Arcade Fire contributed  string arrangements. Up-and-coming British art star Clunie Reid will oversee the album artwork and packaging. Reid’s work has been recently shown at leading UK and US spaces, including the Saatchi Gallery, The Tate and the New Museum in New York. British fashion magazine POP’s creative team will provide art direction for the project.

Rio Special Edition with Book

Before launching a Spring 2011 world tour to promote the album, the group will head to South Africa December 7 for five dates, the first time in 17 years the band has played in Africa.
Since leading the "New British Invasion" of the 1980s, Duran Duran has sold more than 80 million records scored18 American hit singles, 30 chart-toppers at home in the U.K. and numerous hits around the world. 



All You Need Is Now Digital LP tracklisting:
1. All You Need Is Now
2. Blame The Machines

3. Being Followed

4. Leave A Light On

5. Safe 

6. Girl Panic

7. The Man Who Stole A Leopard

8. Runway Runaway

9. Before the Rain


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