Duran Duran have released their newest collaboration, ‘Black Moonlight’, featuring the iconic Nile Rodgers and former bandmate Andy Taylor. The track is the second of three original songs on the upcoming Halloween-inspired album ‘Danse Macabre’, and is a reunion with Rodgers, who has been a close friend and collaborator of the band since producing their 1986 album ‘Notorious’.
Nick Rhodes, Duran Duran keyboardist, said of the new single: “Nile Rogers is a force of nature. When we get into a room, we start playing, and magic happens. Nile always says that CHIC is his first band, and Duran Duran is his second. Thematically, I personally prefer the moon to the sun. Simon took the idea and ran with it.”
Frontman Simon Le Bon added: “‘Black Moonlight’ is this classic Duran Duran-Nile Rodgers collaboration. When Nile started playing his guitar in the studio, he really inspired everyone with his riff, and the song just kind of wrote itself.”
This reunion between the band and Nile Rodgers is especially poignant as guitarist Andy Taylor was unfortunately unable to join the band in person when they were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame due to a setback in his treatment for stage 4 metastatic prostate cancer.
Duran Duran’s upcoming album ‘Danse Macabre’ is due out on October 27th via Tape Modern and BMG. It’s a mix of new original songs, reworkings of songs from the band’s catalogue, and covers of other artists such as Billie Eilish, The Rolling Stones, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and Cerrone.
Speaking of the album, Rhodes commented: “The idea was born out of a show we played in Las Vegas on October 31st, 2022. We had decided to seize the moment to create a unique, special event…the temptation of using glorious gothic visuals set to a dark soundtrack of horror and humour was simply irresistible.” He went on to add: “Emotion, mood, style and attitude have always been at the heart of Duran Duran’s DNA, we search for light in the darkness and darkness in the light, and I feel we have somehow managed to capture the essence of all of that in this project.”
Fans of the band can now pre-order ‘Danse Macabre’ and get ready for the spooky vibes of Duran Duran’s latest release.
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