![]() ![]() And for me, it was great to have been inside that while it was happening. ![]() The band didn't realize it was gonna be like that exactly 20 years after the Beatles. "MTV had just begun, and the girls went insane when they arrived in America, which is what everyone expected. "They became huge during that tour because they arrived really as MTV stars," O'Regan says of Duran Duran. O'Regan's timing to photograph the Sing Blue Silver tour was impeccable as Duran Duran were conquering America, very similar to what another British rock band did two decades earlier. It was either do this tour or not."įrom the photo book 'Duran Duran: Careless Memories' by Denis O'Regan. , but then I joined them as soon as I could after that. Of all places, the bit that I missed was the U.K. The Bowie tour ended after the Duran Duran tour began. A lot went on that night, and they asked me to go on tour. "Towards the end of the Serious Moonlight tour, we were in Australia, which is where Duran Duran were recording Seven and the Ragged Tiger. They probably loved the fact that I had just toured with David, who is their hero. "He said, 'What are you doing after the tour?' I said, 'I'm going on tour with Duran Duran.' He said, 'You're mad.' What happened was I was friends with the band. "David thought I was insane," O'Regan remembers. Prior to joining Duran Duran on the road, O'Regan had just come off a stint photographing David Bowie's 1983 Serious Moonlight tour. Going into 1984, Duran Duran were global superstars, having taken the world by storm with such hits as "Hungry Like the Wolf," "Rio" and "Is There Something I Should Know" and their innovative music videos. So it's made everyone happy, including myself." "It's really for the fans," O'Regan says of the new edition, "and the band's really, really pleased about the idea as well because it's an affordable version for people who couldn't buy the special limited edition. First published in 2015 as a high-end limited edition book and now reprinted as a mass-market release, Careless Memories features O'Regan's fly-on-the-wall images capturing the British band at the peak of their popularity. That's just one of the unique moments that O'Regan-who has shot such rock luminaries as the Rolling Stones, David Bowie and Queen throughout his career-remembers about photographing the 1984 tour, which is the subject of his latest photo book Duran Duran: Careless Memories. ![]() From left to right: Andy Taylor, Simon Le Bon, Roger Taylor, John Taylor and Nick Rhodes. So a lot of that sort of stuck."įrom the photo book 'Duran Duran: Careless Memories' by Denis O'Regan. But as far as I know, he's fine.' That was interesting in New York, having to move around all the time. "So I'd get a phone call in the middle of the night: 'Oh, how's John?' 'Well, thanks for waking me up. "If you wanted to find the band, you'd phone the top few hotels and you asked for me," O'Regan recalls to Newsweek with a laugh. It got to the point where O'Regan himself received phone calls in his hotel room from those fans hoping to connect with a band member. That was certainly the case for renowned British photographer Denis O'Regan, who had unprecedented access to Duran Duran on their Sing Blue Silver tour in 1984.įor instance, the band-Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes, John Taylor, Andy Taylor and Roger Taylor-would be holed up in hotels under aliases and stalked by their predominantly female fans camping downstairs. For a photographer, covering the biggest rock band on the planet is not entirely an easy feat especially when it comes to encountering that group's young rabid fans. ![]()
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