Well my plan was to get back to my hotel, the party was still going, but my guests were going home to meet nannies deadlines. So don’t ask me how I ended up at the Duran Duran concert on Friday! One moment I was waiting for a cab and saying goodbye to a friend from London, and one minute after I got whisked away to the Teatro dal Verme…
I was 11 when I first heard the Duran Duran hits on Radio Luxemburg by night. And they were the first true fashion inspiration for me and my friends at school. We would use Studio Line to make our hair, just like John Taylor. We would imitate his new romantic look. That explains why the average age of the audience at the Vogue Italia party, hosted by Franca Sozzani and Hogan, was over forty.
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The show was really good. New hits such as All you need is now (with Mark Ronson’s help) and old ones, think A view to a kill, Real, Notorius. Simon Le Bon was in great shape, looking just about right. Not pathetically youngish, nor past the sell-by date, but just about mature and probably fifty-something. His non-star look, with a Russell Crowe beard and black All Stars, was not fashionable yet it was stylish. Still, when I was 11 I was in love with John Taylor, and it could not be different, I was just fresh out of childhood and Taylor was a real-life Capitan Harlock.
That’s remember me the Duran Duran vs. Spandau Ballet competition, I was no at all into it but there were friends supporting strongly one or the other!!
My first pop album has been Whitney Houston’s one…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk83KPFvLZw&feature=related …to watch old 80′s music videos give me the same mixed feeling of watching the first videogames, naivety and melancholy
eh eh see? Tony Hadley is back with Caparezza!