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SOLO PROJECTS by members of Duran Duran

Simon Le Bon

  • Arcadia -So Red The Rose the album 1985,with Nick Rhodes and Roger taylor
  • In 1985, for the Whitbread Round the World Race, he contributed a song entitled "Grey Lady Of The Sea" and narrated a video of that year's race called Drum (1987). Grey Lady Of The Sea was released as a single in Japan in 1988.
  • In 1989, for Jonathan Elias' Requiem For The Americas project, he contributed "Follow In My Footsteps", with Bangle Susanna Hoffs on background vocals
  • In 1998, along with friend Nick Wood and wife Yasmin, he set up SYN Entertainment (Simon Yasmin Nick) in Tokyo, Japan. First conceiving the idea in 1988, Le Bon is currently described as SYN's "Founder and Chairman", while Wood is "Founder, President and Creative Director".
  • In 2000, SYN Entertainment founded SYN Records which has released a number of compilations, some of which have included Le Bon contributions. Another solo track, "Dreamboy", was featured on the SYN-released soundtrack to the Mario Van Peebles movie Love Kills.
  • In October 2005 Dutch trance DJ Ferry Corsten releases the track "Fire", with vocals by Simon Le Bon. (full credits: Ferry Corsten feat. Simon Le Bon - Fire (Flashover remix), on Flashover Recordings

Andy Taylor

  • Power Station - the album 1985, with John Taylor and robert palmer
  • with ex-Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones he made a song "Take It Easy", which was used as the theme song from the movie American Anthem.
  • This was followed by his first solo album, Thunder (1987).
  • A second solo album of cover versions, entitled Dangerous, was released in 1990
  • Taylor played as a back up musician for several other stars, including Belinda Carlisle (on her single "Mad About You") and Robert Palmer; he wrote and produced for Rod Stewart and Thunder.
  • He participated in the 1997 reunion of the Power Station,

John Taylor

  • 1985-Power Station , the album with Robert Palmer and Andy Taylor
  • 1986 - John Taylor, I Do What I Do single
  • 1996 - John Taylor, Feelings Are Good and Other Lies
  • 1996 - Neurotic Outsiders, Neurotic Outsiders
  • 1997 - John Taylor, Autodidact (EP)
  • 1997 - Various, Dream Home Heartaches....Remaking/Remodeling Roxy Music
  • 1998 - John Taylor Terroristen, 5.30.98 (EP)
  • 1999 - John Taylor/Jonathan Elias, Resume
  • 1999 - John Taylor, Meltdown
  • 1999 - John Taylor, The Japan Album
  • 2000 - John Taylor, Japanese EP
  • 2000 - John Taylor, Live Cuts
  • 2001 - John Taylor, Techno For Two
  • 2001 - John Taylor, Retreat Into Art
  • 2002 - John Taylor, MetaFour

Film credits

  • 1999 - Sugar Town: Clive
  • 2000 - Four Dogs Playing Poker: Dick
  • 2000 - The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas: cameo, Keith Rockhard
  • 2000 - A Diva's Christmas Carol: Ghost of Christmas Present (VH1)
  • 2001 - Strange Frequency: Jimmy Blitz (VH1)
  • 2001 - Vegas, City of Dreams: Byron Lord
  • 2002 - That 80s Show: cameo, Zeke
 

 

Nick Rhodes

  • Arcadia-So Red The Rose the album 1985,with Simon Le Bon and Roger Taylor
  • Throughout the 1990s, Rhodes worked on a massive side project called TV Mania with Duran bandmate Warren Cuccurullo. They created a self-described "social junk culture triptych opera" composed of music, dialogue, samples, and "found sound", and hoped to make it into a Broadway play. The music and packaging have reportedly been finished, but they have not found a label to release it.
  • Dark Circles by The Devils- 2003 the album with Stephen Duffy,the first singer of Duran Duran , based on some of the earliest Duran music the two had written together

Roger Taylor

  • Arcadia ,So Red The Rose the Album 1985 ,with Simon le Bon and Nick Rhodes
  • In 1997, after his children were grown, Taylor began flirting with the music industry again. He briefly formed the band Freebass, which produced a single but never got a record deal.