He tried out some of the songs the band had already composed together, then spent some time fitting one of his poems ("Sound of Thunder") to one of the band's instrumentals, and found they had a good match. As band legend has it, he turned up for the audition wearing pink leopard-print trousers, carrying a book of poetry he had written. Le Bon's ex-girlfriend Fiona Kemp (a barmaid at the Rum Runner nightclub where Duran Duran was rehearsing) introduced him to the band in May of 1980, recommending him as a potential vocalist. All they needed was a charismatic singer with a distinctive voice. The band had been through a long succession of lineup changes since, but had recently settled on a guitarist and drummer and built a powerful pop sound flavored with disco, funk and electronics but built on a solid rock rhythm section. He worked on a kibbutz -a farm- in the Negev desert in Israel in 1978, and then returned to England to attend drama school at the University of Birmingham before meeting the fledgling band Duran Duran.ĭuran Duran had been founded with singer/songwriter Stephen Duffy in 1978, but Duffy left a year later, convinced they weren't going anywhere. He appeared in a few television commercials and also in several theatre productions. Le Bon was a member of the local church choir from a young age, but was also trained as an actor.
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