Duran Duran Lights Up Hollywood With Rooftop Performance, Dedicates ‘Ordinary World’ to Ukraine

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Lily Moayeri Duran Duran treated 250 friends and family, and a few industry professionals, to a private performance on the rooftop of the Aster in Hollywood on the evening of Thursday March 17.

The performance was recorded for a feature-length concert film and documentary the Fab Five will be releasing in June, in conjunction with their world tour, which hits North America in August.On the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street, the well-appointed Aster — a private members’ club and hotel that will be opening in June — provided a picture-perfect setting for Duran Duran with both the Hollywood sign and the Capitol Records Tower as their backdrop.The balmy evening and late sunset brought a dreamy quality to the intimate performance.

The hour-long set featured songs from Duran Duran’s four-decade-long career including from their most recent album, “Future Past.” Bookended by “View to a Kill” and “Hungry Like the Wolf,” the standout moment of the evening was during “Ordinary World” when the group had the blue and gold colors of the Ukrainian flag projected onto the Capitol Tower. “We are appealing to our fans in Russia to have an open heart and to support peace,” said bassist John Taylor in a statement. “We are all hoping you can get back to an ‘Ordinary World.’ “Duran Duran have not shied away from bringing attention to the Russia-Ukraine war.

The evening prior, during Duran Duran’s appearance on “The Late Late Show with James Corden,” keyboard player Nick Rhodes sported a blue jacket and yellow shirt and tie.