STARING ONCE AGAIN INTO THE EYES OF THE BIG D

It really is an all hands comeback - Duran Duran haven't just done a new single, and a new album, and a new tour; now, Simon LeBon is going to take part in the Fastnet Race. He's even - and this is really tempting fate - using the same boat, Drum, as he used in 1985. That was the time he almost drowned to death (not the time he almost drowned making the Wild Boys video, trussed up like a Tory in a S&M sex dwarf bar). Rather splendidly, the boat is now owned by Arnold Clark, the car rental people, so if he damages it he'll not only come face-to-face with death but he'll have some explaining to do when he comes to return it.

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