![]() ![]() Īfter listening to the songs the band had already composed together, Le Bon spent some time fitting one of his poems ("Sound of Thunder") to one of the instrumentals, and found they had a good match. As band legend has it, he turned up for the audition wearing pink leopard-print trousers, and carrying a notebook containing a large collection of poems he had written-several of which would later become tracks on the early Duran Duran studio albums. ![]() Le Bon's ex-girlfriend, Fiona Kemp (a bartender at the Rum Runner nightclub where Duran Duran were rehearsing), introduced him to the band in May 1980, recommending him as a potential lead vocalist. The band had a powerful pop sound flavoured with disco, funk, and electronics, built on a solid rock rhythm section, and all they needed was a charismatic singer with a distinctive voice. The band went through a long succession of line-up changes after Duffy's departure, but finally settled on a guitarist and drummer. Duran Duran Le Bon (centre), with Duran Duran, 1983ĭuran Duran was founded by childhood friends John Taylor and Nick Rhodes along with singer-songwriter Stephen Duffy in 1978, but Duffy left a year later, convinced that the band was not going to be successful. Le Bon worked on a kibbutz-an Israeli collective community-in the Negev desert in Israel in 1978, and then returned to England to study drama at the University of Birmingham before meeting the fledgling band Duran Duran in 1980. He appeared in a few television advertisements and also in several theatre productions including Tom Brown's School Days in the West End of London. Career Before Duran Duran įor a time Le Bon worked as a theatre porter at Northwick Park Hospital Accident and Casualty, and also sang in a punk band called Dog Days at Harrow School of Art. In 1978, he completed an art foundation course at Harrow School of Art, before studying drama at the University of Birmingham. Le Bon went to Pinner County Grammar School and Nower Hill High School. He was a member of the local church choir from a young age, and was trained as an actor. His mother encouraged his artistic talent when he was six years old by entering him in a screen test for a Persil washing powder TV advertisement, which proved successful. Le Bon was born on 27 October 1958, on his father's birthday, in Bushey Maternity Hospital in Bushey, Hertfordshire, the first of three boys for John and Ann-Marie Le Bon, followed by his younger brothers, David and Jonathan. Le Bon has received three Ivor Novello Awards from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, including the award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music. He is best known as the lead vocalist and lyricist of the new wave band Duran Duran and its offshoot Arcadia. Simon John Charles Le Bon (born 27 October 1958) is an English singer.
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