List of Duran Duran concert tours

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This page includes the concert tours by British band Duran Duran.

[edit] The tours

Year Title Format
1981 The Faster Than Light Tour
1981 The Careless Memories Tour
1982 The Rio Tour
1983-1984 The Sing Blue Silver Tour VHS, LaserDisc, DVD
1987 The Strange Behaviour Tour VHS
1988 Clubland USA (Caravan Club Tour)
1988-1989 The Big Thing Live/The Electric Theatre Tour
1993 An Acoustic Evening with Duran Duran
1993-1994 No Ordinary Tour
1995 Thank You Tour
1997 Ultra Chrome, Latex and Steel Tour
1998 The Greatest and Latest Tour
1999 The Let It Flow Tour
2000 Pop Trash Tour
2001 Up Close and Personal Tour
2003-2004 Reunion/25th Anniversary Tour
2005 Astronaut the Tour DVD
2008 Red Carpet Massacre World Tour

Duran Duran typically does change the setlist around somewhat, the only songs they have never performed live:

Shadows on Your Side (7 & the Ragged Tiger) So Misled (Notorious) Proposition (Notorious) Land (Big Thing) Hothead (Liberty) All Along the Water (Liberty) My Antarctica (Liberty) Read My Lips (Liberty) Downtown (Liberty) Shotgun (The Wedding Album) None of the Above (The Wedding Album) Shelter (The Wedding Album) To Whom It May Concern (The Wedding Album) Midnight Sun (Medazzaland) Undergoing Treatment (Medazzaland) The Sun Doesn't Shine Forever (Pop Trash)

Can You Deal With It (Liberty) was performed by John Taylor solo Sin of the City (The Wedding Album) was performed by John Taylor solo Drowning Man (The Wedding Album) was performend by John Taylor solo.

Other tidbits:

- Save a Prayer has been performed and sung by Simon Le Bon, John Taylor and Andy Taylor.

- Get it On (Bang a Gong) has been performed and sung by Simon Le Bon, John Taylor and Andy Taylor.

- Election Day is the only Arcadia song ever performed live.

- Duran Duran have played more Powerstation songs live (Get it On & Some Like it Hot) and more often than Election Day which had more members perform on it.

- Come and See Me, Secret Oktober, and Late Bar are the only b-sides performed in recent history (last decade).

- On the 1993 - 1994 tour, Duran Duran radically altered Hungry Like the Wolf, Girls on Film, Save a Prayer, and several other songs.

- Prior to 2003, the band had never played The Wild Boys with all five original members live.

- On the 2003/2004 tour the band played several songs that were never released (Virus, Beautiful Colours).

- From 2003 - 2005 the band played every song off the first album at some point, including Tel Aviv (Orlando, FL).

[edit] Notable concerts

Year Title Format
1985 Live Aid: 20 Years Ago Today DVD
2005 Live 8 - One Day One Concert One World DVD
2006 Nobel Prize Awards
2006 Torino Olympics

[edit] See also