Duran Duran at 40: Nick Rhodes Reflects on Group’s Evolving Fanbase, MTV’s Influence, ‘Under the Volcano’ Doc

Duran Duran’s Simon Le Bon has claimed that the band used to order drugs via room service back in the 1980s.Speaking on Alan Carr’s Life’s A Beach podcast, Le Bon said: “I’ve been going to the Sunset Marquis (a hotel in Los Angeles) for nearly 40 years. When I first went there, it was not quite so high rent…you used to be able to order ‘substances’ on room service, if you knew the right people to ask.”“And we did.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is sweating on a couple of fitness concerns after Manchester United's final training session before flying to Italy for the Champions League tie with Atalanta.

Duran Duran have recalled how their style and musical focus shifted after punk “got a bit dull” for them.Speaking in a new interview, frontman Simon Le Bon discussed how the band once found the rebellious genre exciting but after a while it became boring to them.“Punk affected our musical style, our way of dressing; it affected me lyrically massively – the single biggest lyrical influence on me was Patti Smith.

Juventus’ chairman has taken aim at Cristiano Ronaldo, telling the Manchester United star the club “comes before anyone”.

Bringing Up Bates star Lawson Bates has proposed to his 22-year-old girlfriend Tiffany Espenson.MORE: Everything you need to know about the Duggar family weddingsLawson, who had long been rumored to be courting Jana Duggar, proposed at Senuta Larnianone in Siena, Italy, secretly arranging the sunset proposal as they filmed a music video together.WATCH: Jana Duggar shares rare video of fun day out"Tiff, I don’t have a lot of words, because you’ve been taking my breath away ever since I met you,"

Kim Kardashian is opening up about Kanye West‘s influence.

Battle of the bad date chronicles! Nikki Bella and Brie Bella compared their most disastrous romantic outings, including one involving Italian food and pasta kisses.

Partying with everyone from Lady Gaga, Elton John and Daniel Craig to Kim Kardashian, Vladimir Putin and Queen Elizabeth II, Duran Duran holds the anniversary bash to end all anniversary bashes in celebration of 40 years in music.The festivities go down in the video for the band’s latest single, aptly titled “Anniversary.” But if you’re wondering just how they got the queen to do a group selfie at this shindig, well, it’s because they used celebrity lookalikes in the clip, which was released

Manori Ravindran International EditorA new film about the development, regulation and roll-out of COVID-19 vaccines from “How to Survive a Plague” director David France has scored a raft of international sales.Documentary specialists Dogwoof have sold the film — which will debut on HBO and HBO Max in 2022 — into Sky in the U.K., Germany and Italy; NRK for Norway; DR for Denmark; SVT for Sweden; Channel 8 and YesDocu for Israel; and HBO and HBO Max in Latin America.Filming on the documentary,

Manchester United are back up and running after another magical European night under the Old Trafford lights.

Sweden is sending Ronnie Sandahl’s Tigers to this year’s International Oscar race.

The CW is continuing to look abroad to solidify its schedule.

An Italian DJ has claimed Conor McGregor broke his nose with a single punch just hours after he had his son baptised in the Vatican.

Conor McGregor is once again involved in an alleged altercation.

Shirley Halperin Executive Editor, MusicAndrea Bocelli, the Italian singer whose instantly recognizable tenor has moved more than 90 million albums and generated five billion streams to date, has entered into an exclusive, expanded global recording agreement with Universal Music Group (UMG). The strategic alliance finds UMG signing Bocelli directly and covers multiple albums worldwide.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentItaly’s True Colours has taken sales on two new titles that it will introduce to international buyers at Rome’s MIA Market: “Prophets,” an ISIS-themed drama by Alessio Cremonini (“On My Skin”) and “A Breath of Life,” a doc about a 97-year-old Italian transsexual woman named Lucy, who is among the few survivors of the Dachau Nazi concentration camp. Both films are in post and will be presented as works-in-progress at MIA, the first in the “What’s Next

Massive Attack’s Robert Del Naja has made a short film for the Legacy Of War Foundation’s new No More Wars campaign, which aims to highlight the costs of the 20 years of war that followed the attack on the World Trade Center in 2001.The first in a series of collaborations with photographer and Legacy Of War founder Giles Duley, Del Naja’s film – for which he has also composed new music – focusses on the stories of civilian casualties in Afghanistan and the work of the Italian NGO Emergency at

Malina Saval Associate Editor, FeaturesThe 16th-century Dutch theologian Desiderius Erasmus famously proclaimed “Clothes make the man.” This is categorically true of James Bond, Ian Fleming’s swashbuckling secret agent, whose costumes through the years — from the Savile Row suits worn by Sean Connery in “Dr.