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Then:
Adored by millions of teenagers.
Now: Adored by millions of teenagers _ plus ex-teenagers nostalgic
for 1982.
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Then: People magazine, 1983: ``Five polite and huggable English
lads with a harmless foot-twitching beat.''
Now: Details magazine, 1993: ``A lush, funk-inflected VH-1 sound.''
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Then: Actual lyric: ``Moving on the floor now babe you're a bird
of paradise/cherry ice cream smile I suppose it's very nice'' (from
``Rio,'' 1982).
Now: Actual lyric: ``Girl you're looking beat and cold'' (from ``Shelter,''
1993).
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Then: Actual lyric: ``Do do do do do do do dodo dododo dodo'' (from
``Hungry Like a Wolf,'' 1982).
Now: Actual lyric: ``Na nana na nana nana na na'' (from ``Drowning
Man,'' 1993).
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Then: Catchy, upbeat tunes bordering on maddening.
Now: Catchy, maddening tunes bordering on surreally downbeat.
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Then: Then-guitarist Andy Taylor, in Rolling Stone, 1984: ``It's
been said that we could probably go up onstage and fart and it wouldn't
make any difference.''
Now: Keyboardist Nick Rhodes, in B-Side, 1993: ``That
(recently) was the first time we had played in years, and to see
how the audience was was great! Because finally we could hear everything!
I'm not saying that people shouldn't scream, I don't care if people
scream, but isn't it better to hear the music?''
X X X
Then: Steamy videos with sexy babes.
Now: Record the Velvet Underground's ``Femme Fatale,'' perhaps the
most cynical rock song ever written about women.
X X X
Then: Singer Simon LeBon looked like Sting, only with bigger hair
and more lipstick.
Now: Singer Simon LeBon looks like Sting, only surlier.
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Then: Then-drummer Roger Taylor, to People in 1983: ``We don't want
to be has-beens by the time we're 25. It would be the worst thing
in the world to go around saying to people, `Do you know who I used
to be?' ''
Now: LeBon, in the April 1993 Rolling Stone: ``It used to be we'd
take a taxi ride, and the driver would say, `I used to be a Duran
Duran fan.' Now they're saying: `I love your band. The new record's
great.' It's wonderful to hear a lot less used-to-be's.' ''
X X X
Then: Neutered punk and new wave by mixing them with disco.
Now: Neuter rap, rave and industrial music by reminding us that
all that stuff came from disco.
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Then: Created by MTV.
Now: First words of new album: ``Destroyed by MTV.''
COPYRIGHT 1993 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service
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