The lowest point of Duran Duran

In the eighties i Duran Duran the sales charts dominated, then something changed within the group Andy Taylor And Roger Taylor They left the group and the general impression was that, in some way, they had made their time.

The English band greeted the arrival of the nineties by publishing their sixth album, “Liberty”. Unfortunately, the good intentions remained on paper. After playing as turnrs, the guitarist Warren Cuccurullo and the drummer Sterling Campbell They were formally added in formation. An always optimistic Simon Le Bon By presenting the album he declared: “We do not feel limited, which is relevant for the album. I think that’s why we call it” Liberty “. I wanted to do things I could do with Arcadia and Power Station, but I want to do them with Duran Duran. This is better than anything we can do ourselves.”

In retrospect it can be said that the writing of the new songs was not a problem, the difficult was to find a coherent goal. Years later John Taylor He confessed: “I was not happy when we were recording” Liberty “. Especially when we entered the recording studio. I was not strong enough to leave. I want to say, all I could do at that point was to cling to the broken cap. When we tried it, when we wrote it, it was a great album. I really felt that it would be a great album. When we entered the studio, I collapsed and the production was not right. mediocre. “

“Liberty”
He was published on August 20, 1990, criticism crawls him. If this could not represent a problem, what mattered most were fans, and they too did not like it.
“Liberty”
reached 46th place in the standings, the worst result of their career, and just a single, ”
Violence of Summer (Love’s Taking Over)
“, he entered the sale ranking stopping in the rear, in 64th place.

The socially committed rock that emerged in the mid -1980s penalized them.
John Taylor
indicated the
Live Aid
Like the moment when they began to lose control of the spirit of time. In 1993 he explained: “From that moment on you had to have a social consciousness, and we represented the decline of the 80s. After the live AID it was like: U2 inside, Duran outside. It was so simple.”

“Liberty”
marked the lowest point of the career of the
Duran Duran
. Even the group did not present the album on tour, instead returned to the recording studio to work on new material. Three years after the flop of
“Liberty”
the band returned with
“The
Wedding Album “
the disc of the rebirth that brought them back to the American top ten after ten years, kicking off the second part of their career.

Nick Rhodes
Reflecting a posteriori on the disc he honestly admitted: “John and I are one thing in all our work that we feel we have really wrong, and is the album” Liberty “”.

Simon Le Bon
In this regard, however, it is much more understanding: “I think the problem with” liberty “was that we were in a transition phase and there were some songs in which there was not all our hearts. The album came out in a difficult moment, when much of the world said: ‘We no longer want the Duran Duran, we have enough of you’. Obviously, we refused to leave. Rather than making changes to “Liberty”.