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Creem Profiles

DURAN DURAN

(Pronounced “Boy Howdy!”)

May 1, 1983

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HOME: Planet Earth.

AGE: Too young to drink in New York.

PROFESSION: Tryirig not to smile while posing for pictures.

HOBBIES: Testing mirrors, hair dyes and natural fibers, women, reading Warhol, women, traveling to exotic locales, sumo-wrestling women, riding elephants.

LAST BOOK READ: Adrian Arpel’s How To Look Ten Years Younger In Thirty Days

LAST ACCOMPLISHMENT: Successfully taking the last chance on the stairway.

QUOTE: “ What girls?”

PROFILE: Surviving the almost now-defunct New Romanticism in the U.K., this bevy of beauties came to us first via the racy “Girls On Film” video, and have succeeded in capturing the under-18 crowd with dance hit “Hungry Like The Wolf.” With their debut album and latest album, Rio, John, Simon, Nick, Andy and Roger are enjoying more than passing success on both sides of the Atlantic.

BEER: Boy Howdy!