Duran Duran's Simon Le Bon Bombed In Front of Princess Diana | Letterman

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  • Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
  • The Duran Duran lead singer talks about break-up rumors, playing for the Princess and more
    (From "Late Night," air date: 9/10/85)
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  • @ritabb9692
    @ritabb9692 3 місяці тому +12

    He looks so much like a young Elvis

  • @bluebear1985
    @bluebear1985 10 місяців тому +54

    Not to worry, Simon is still alive.

    • @Julieroo28
      @Julieroo28 10 місяців тому +7

      Yes, but he did almost die during that sailing race!

    • @mjcosgrove
      @mjcosgrove 10 місяців тому +5

      EXACTLY why I went straight to the comments before watching the video!!!

    • @lisaannehill
      @lisaannehill 10 місяців тому

      Thank God!

    • @matmcd
      @matmcd 10 місяців тому +1

      I opened the comments looking for yours, thanks

    • @christoffesedao3579
      @christoffesedao3579 10 місяців тому

      Thanks 🙏

  • @MusicLover-yo5rs
    @MusicLover-yo5rs 10 місяців тому +24

    Simon’s eyes look so beautiful in this video! 👀 🤩

  • @karynlouisa3771
    @karynlouisa3771 5 місяців тому +8

    Is it me or does he look like Elvis?

  • @alexland74
    @alexland74 10 місяців тому +25

    Not one of Dave's best interviews, but certainly one of the best guests, Simon LeBon and Duran Duran were the Apex of the British pop '80s. Simon is so articulate and well spoken, what a beautiful message he gave regarding live aid and the true meaning behind it. So Red the Rose by Arcadia is an amazing album, everyone needs to listen to it.❤

  • @carolechaney2830
    @carolechaney2830 10 місяців тому +10

    One of my all-time favorite vocalist and his group Duran Duran.⭐️🤗

  • @LAReadyN
    @LAReadyN 10 місяців тому +15

    I miss the 80s

    • @sheilamuse4560
      @sheilamuse4560 10 місяців тому +1

      Me too! I want to go back!! Such a simpler time😊. I loved Duran Duran so much as a kid ❤

  • @marionfarrell1716
    @marionfarrell1716 10 місяців тому +9

    How does one get their eyes to sparkle like that? Outrageous.

    • @cynlev
      @cynlev 4 місяці тому

      IKR!!!

  • @derelict74
    @derelict74 10 місяців тому +7

    Saw Duran Duran in Pittsburgh in September and it was a GREAT show.

  • @RozarSmacco
    @RozarSmacco 10 місяців тому +4

    Sam Kinison: “ you live in a freaking desert! we have deserts in America we don’t live in them, cornholer!”

  • @lizmc.1031
    @lizmc.1031 10 місяців тому +9

    Talking about the sailing just makes me think of what is about to happen to him. Thankfully everything turned out well and he is still singing his beautiful heart out!❤

    • @lonelyheroine
      @lonelyheroine 10 місяців тому +2

      Coming face to face with his mortality spurred him on to propose to Yasmin almost immediately after that horror show.

    • @paulamiles9559
      @paulamiles9559 5 місяців тому +1

      His brother Jonathan saved them

    • @paulamiles9559
      @paulamiles9559 5 місяців тому +1

      ​@lonelyheroine and that sure turned out well!

  • @Julieroo28
    @Julieroo28 10 місяців тому +18

    I met Simon a little over 10 years ago, and he’s a big teddy bear.

    • @mikewhite4560
      @mikewhite4560 10 місяців тому

      Lard ASS? 😅

    • @paulamiles9559
      @paulamiles9559 5 місяців тому +3

      Andy Taylor described him as " Elvis, after a few trips to the chip shop"

  • @nicolemorley6281
    @nicolemorley6281 10 місяців тому +4

    It seems an awkwardly close placement of seating. Dave is almost in his face instead of them both having a bit of personal space.

  • @electroluxia
    @electroluxia 5 місяців тому +2

    Simon is so charming, well-spoken, intelligent, and respectful - ever the English gentleman - and dead-common-as-you-please Letterman dragging the conversation down into the gutter with the asinine “lardo” inanity. Simon was spot on saying Letterman was a bit slow. Le Bon giving Letterman the flack he’s been dishing out to his guests for years, and David not liking it one bit. Fabulous. (Just see Letterman's interview with Laurie Anderson for another cringe-worthy example of David's gross inadequacies with guests). Simon looking his usual debonaire, New Romantic / New Wave, avantgarde self. Fantastic! Love him in all black. And, indeed, Arcadia’s “So Red The Rose,” remains an unparalleled masterpiece, every song a gem.

  • @RoRiodd
    @RoRiodd 10 місяців тому +4

    Love Simon! Thanks for posting this!

  • @blakelyhall8191
    @blakelyhall8191 10 місяців тому +13

    Duran 4 lyfe!!! And thank you Dave and crew for keeping the hits coming 👍👍

  • @t23001
    @t23001 10 місяців тому +25

    Simon did a great job of simultaneously being a loyal subject and snarky rockstar. He was a couple steps ahead of Dave that night.

    • @Julieroo28
      @Julieroo28 10 місяців тому +5

      It seemed like Dave was bored.

    • @mikewhite4560
      @mikewhite4560 10 місяців тому +4

      No one is a COUPLE Steps ahead of D A V E...😅

    • @genghis_connie
      @genghis_connie 10 місяців тому +2

      I don’t remember this airing. Wild.
      Where are the other gents?
      Yeah, Dave seems like he’s trying to help Simon, and Simon started out a bit messy funny than he thought he was.

  • @groofoot
    @groofoot 6 місяців тому +3

    3:14 = at that angle, with his hair that color, he reminds one of Elvis ....

    • @paulamiles9559
      @paulamiles9559 5 місяців тому

      Andy said that was his thought on first view of Simon

  • @davidellis5141
    @davidellis5141 10 місяців тому +12

    The first two Duran Duran albums are actually pretty good.

    • @bundangkorea
      @bundangkorea 10 місяців тому +9

      Much more than "pretty good"

    • @debraberg4513
      @debraberg4513 10 місяців тому

      The other albums are actually pretty bad with maybe a few specks of good songs. One, they hired Nile Rogers. Two, they let Simon Le Bon (who is a gay man, and who used women to be under the guise of being straight) take over the music style. It’s why a lot of their recent songs are so cheesy. It’s as if he’s got a target audience among gay young males…. read the lyrics of wild boys, which is an awful song and check out the book the wild boys. He still talks about his obliterated bum in concert ffs🙄.

    • @chiefscheider
      @chiefscheider 10 місяців тому

      Stop dwelling on the gay thing and get a life, deb

    • @wishawweather5421
      @wishawweather5421 Місяць тому

      @@debraberg4513 The first couple of sentences of your comment had some accuracy. The rest is, to quote Le Bon in this interview "a load of tosh".

    • @SandeeStyles
      @SandeeStyles Місяць тому

      ​​@@debraberg4513- You are some1 who is needlessly angry and SO-O-OHH way off the path that U R effectively lost and reaching for only God knows wot !

  • @ModernGoddess81
    @ModernGoddess81 10 місяців тому +12

    So handsome 😍

  • @theresarhode4494
    @theresarhode4494 9 місяців тому +3

    Just gorgeous! Miss the 80's.❤

  • @Stopthecrazz
    @Stopthecrazz 10 місяців тому +3

    We were all younger back then lol

  • @rishdog100
    @rishdog100 10 місяців тому +4

    The lardo comment was cringe..
    Simon is a class act , really well spoken dude.

    • @chiefscheider
      @chiefscheider 10 місяців тому +1

      I love his blank reaction to the nickname question 3:26

    • @lonelyheroine
      @lonelyheroine 10 місяців тому

      And highly inappropriate, not to mention immature.

  • @benforwho
    @benforwho 10 місяців тому +6

    Wow live aid money. Where did it actually go? I suspect the wrong hands.

  • @LilaLAKEHAL-uh3kh
    @LilaLAKEHAL-uh3kh 21 день тому +1

    he looks like Elvis Presley ❤

  • @Tripper1075KZL
    @Tripper1075KZL 10 місяців тому +8

    The best interviewing the best! PS. the last 14 albums are also very good! 😊

    • @paulamiles9559
      @paulamiles9559 5 місяців тому

      Thank you

    • @LilaLAKEHAL-uh3kh
      @LilaLAKEHAL-uh3kh 21 день тому

      Ouais d'ailleurs je comprends pas que personne ne fait le rapprochement parce que c'est le chanteur qui ressemble le plus naturellement à Elvis Presley personne ne dit rien mais franchement c'est celui qui a on dirait qu'il fait partie de la même famille et ce qui est bizarre c'est qu'elle vise Presley il avait des origines françaises et Simon le bon il a un nom français il a des origines françaises si ça se trouve ils ont un ancêtre commun

  • @williamgottlieb8723
    @williamgottlieb8723 10 місяців тому +2

    Bombed in front of Princess Diana and now gone. Some people never get a break.

  • @OMGWTFLOLSMH
    @OMGWTFLOLSMH 10 місяців тому +6

    I always liked Simon. Not your typical mindless pop star.

  • @marklendhurst1193
    @marklendhurst1193 4 місяці тому +1

    I would have asked more about Arcadia. Live Aid I get it but Arcadia would have been more interesting.

  • @LourivalConceicaoSilvaJunior
    @LourivalConceicaoSilvaJunior 10 місяців тому +1

    WOW, WOW A ZILLION TIMES , SIMON simply showec , he really learnt from HER LADY DIANA. Love u even more DD, congrasts

  • @rsgabrys----
    @rsgabrys---- 10 місяців тому +1

    ---------------------------- charming chap ...thanks4sharing

  • @globalcitizenn
    @globalcitizenn 2 місяці тому

    He’s wearing makeup and earrings but no one’s questioning his sexuality or his marriage the way they did with Michael Jackson going to show the harassment of Jackson was racially motivated.

  • @angelgilreath
    @angelgilreath 10 місяців тому +2

    😍😍😍😍😍

  • @CUPCAKESUGARPIE
    @CUPCAKESUGARPIE 10 місяців тому +6

    🎼🤟♥️♥️♥️🤟 🎼
    Looove Simon

  • @scotpreston6477
    @scotpreston6477 3 місяці тому

    Obviously during Arcadia period too. But awkward interview. David seemed to be needling him.

  • @vrvaughn
    @vrvaughn 10 місяців тому +1

    They were a great video band…

  • @kstepko
    @kstepko 10 місяців тому +1

    Prince Charles and Princess Diana: a really good couple (1:06) who will get on with each other quite well (1:54).

  • @LourivalConceicaoSilvaJunior
    @LourivalConceicaoSilvaJunior 10 місяців тому

    WE R ALL HUMANS, if i have s, why not to share??????? same needs,

  • @lyndamcmullen5506
    @lyndamcmullen5506 8 місяців тому +1

    ❤❤❤

  • @ATATKDMama
    @ATATKDMama 4 місяці тому

    Dave was so condescending & rude. Simon did a great job.

  • @nutrition182
    @nutrition182 5 місяців тому

    You can understand why Yasmin and him had a very passionate and long lasting relationship.

  • @ClockwiseCat
    @ClockwiseCat 10 місяців тому +4

    I never noticed his resemblance to Elvis

    • @debraberg4513
      @debraberg4513 10 місяців тому

      there’s a video of Simon Le Bon, who turned 50 where he got a bunch of Elvis Presley records for a present. There is a card as well that calls him a queen. He is a gay man that used a beautiful model and her three daughters to be under the guise of being straight, but much of time, he would dance in a certain way to target a young gay male audience since the early 80s, ie, he would even do squats if you know what I mean. I will never listen to Duran Duran again after discovering two of them were g@y. And guess which is the other one. Google the video of Nick Rhodes and John Taylor on an elephant in Sri Lanka… that will tell you all you need to know

    • @alisonross1300
      @alisonross1300 10 місяців тому

      Who the hell cares if he is gay? With that kind of homophobia, you are going to be pretty miserably in life. @@debraberg4513

  • @Uni955
    @Uni955 4 місяці тому

    Very nice

  • @condocord7544
    @condocord7544 10 місяців тому

    Rude Dave

  • @soniabassetti7864
    @soniabassetti7864 4 місяці тому

    Favoloso!

  • @1087shotwell
    @1087shotwell 3 місяці тому

    1985

  • @lillypatience
    @lillypatience 10 місяців тому +8

    Funny, Simon thinks people are there for him…calling David slow. I was a Duranee but always knew they were all so arrogant.

    • @Stopthecrazz
      @Stopthecrazz 10 місяців тому +3

      I wish you were wrong about this but maybe not🤔

    • @debraberg4513
      @debraberg4513 10 місяців тому

      As well, they let Simon Le Bon (who is a gay man, and who used women to be under the guise of being straight) take over the music style. It’s why a lot of their recent songs are so cheesy. It’s as if he’s got a target audience among gay young males…. read the lyrics of wild boys, which is an awful song and check out the book the wild boys. He still talks about his obliterated bum in concert ffs🙄. There’s even a video of him singing hungry like the Wolf during the late 70s or early 80s doing squats, simulating you know what😂. Also, there was an Instagram video of Nick Rhodes talking about coming out but now it’s MIA apparently. There’s a video of Nick Rhodes and John Taylor on an elephant in Sri Lanka I swear to God nick rhodes looks like a bashful woman grabbing on to Taylor’s naked back and stomach😮🙄.

  • @HelixAmenities
    @HelixAmenities 10 місяців тому

    Fire starter

  • @LourivalConceicaoSilvaJunior
    @LourivalConceicaoSilvaJunior 10 місяців тому

    well, never saw this interview, ,but i saw her saying, somewhere, , i got surprised!, it was COOL! HUNGRY LIKE A WOLF, N THE REFLESSSLADY DIANA, SLL THE BEST WHISHES 4 HER SPIRIT❣❣❣❣❤❤❤

  • @MariaH.-op4zi
    @MariaH.-op4zi 10 місяців тому +4

    Fine AF..& he knows it

  • @claire-christmas-august73
    @claire-christmas-august73 10 місяців тому

    my guilty pleasure.!
    shhhh….
    🤫🤭 😉😉🤣
    ✌🏻🌏🇦🇺🤘🏻

  • @nickrachjames
    @nickrachjames 9 місяців тому

    This is from 1985 and Duran Duran did break up in 1985.

    • @Cre80s
      @Cre80s 5 місяців тому

      Eh, that's a bit false-ish. "Break up" is a term that does not fit Duran Duran. For one, the band very much obviously continued, which is something bands that "break up" don't do. Also, Roger and Andy both returned, Roger 'til this day. It was an end of an era where "all 5 being expected" ended, but calling that "breaking up" is inaccurate.

  • @Tallturk
    @Tallturk 10 місяців тому

    That barber’s cape with white socks is extremely tacky…Simon likely wishes for posterity that he went classic and wore a sharp suit to Letterman instead of this plastic tosh.

  • @BoobTube714
    @BoobTube714 10 місяців тому +2

    Snark. Two big personalities- and Dave kind of pushy. Clearly Simon was not about to opinion the Prince/Princess… would not be a good look.
    Has an EPresley look here.

  • @amf8551
    @amf8551 10 місяців тому +9

    Looks like Elvis

    • @Tripper1075KZL
      @Tripper1075KZL 10 місяців тому +7

      The new wave Elvis!

    • @amf8551
      @amf8551 10 місяців тому +4

      @@Tripper1075KZL exactly

    • @Julieroo28
      @Julieroo28 10 місяців тому +2

      I thought that at the very end!

    • @LilaLAKEHAL-uh3kh
      @LilaLAKEHAL-uh3kh 21 день тому

      Effectivement il ressemble beaucoup à elvis 'il a le même regard et le même rire il a exactement le même visage et le même nez avant que Elvis façonne le sien comme beaucoup de stars américaines et c'est surtout qu'en fait ils ont tous les deux des origines françaises si ça trouve ils ont un ancêtre commun et c'est pour ça qu'il se ressemblent ils font peut-être partie de la même famille parce que vraiment il a exactement la même tête il y a que le sourire qu'il n a pas il a le même rire que lui c'est étrange