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DVD Music Review Duran Duran

The three expansive opening songs of Duran Durans A Diamond in the Mind  concert film announce a band that really knows how to fill an arena. I dont mean in terms of ticket sales, but rather bathing their audience in a full sound best described as prog rock or symphonic rock. But once they kick into A View to a Kill and throughout the rest of the program, we are reminded why Duran Duran were known as synthpop dance beat specialists in the  and thereafter.

Filmed live in Manchester at the MEN Arena on December  the show was part of a two year tour to promote Duran Durans  studio album, All You Need Is Now. Both the album and the show featured four of the original members of the group Simon Le Bon John Taylor  and Roger Taylor (drums). Since on-again, off-again guitarist Andy Taylors last departure in  Dominic Brown has credibly filled that role as both a player and songwriter for the group.

In addition, the MEN Arena show spotlighted background singer Anna Ross, who really puts the funk in the funky for a number of the numbers, especially when she shares the front of the stage with Le Bon.

Not surprisingly we get samplings from the full band catalogue going back to their glory days of the From we get the standout Planet Earth and Careless Memories. From  we get Rio and the monster hit, Hungry Like the Wolf. is represented by The ReflexThe Wild Boys and Notorious.New on DVD