Duran Duran New Single and Album

Nick remembers watching a young boy being interrogated on a news channel about his fears in this new world order at the start of the War On Terror. "It was quite profound, and I could see him trying to assimilate what was going on and how it was going to affect his life. And I felt no different. I was stunned. It made you realise how unsafe our society is."

That "cloud of darkness", accepts Nick, did hang over 'Astronaut', but it was kept at bay by Duran's innate tendency to look on the bright side. As Andy puts it: "We've always had an optimistic mantra, otherwise you'd just have one big sex party, take drugs and get fucked! You've got to hope that things are going to get better." The band worked on controlling this dark/light duality during the second wave of sessions for the album in a recording studio in Brixton, throughout 2002. "We're all natural optimists," says Nick. "There is light out there, and not everyone in the world's a baddie..."
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