Duran Duran, L-R: Roger Taylor, Simon Le Bon, John Taylor, Nick Rhodes and Andy Taylor. The band’s original guitarist has revealed he has stage 4 metastatic prostate cancer. Photograph: David Bebber/REUTERS   During his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the original guitarist of a British new wave group discloses his illness in […]

Simon Le Bon shouts, “Number two in Birmingham!” as he kicks off a second sold-out home town performance at the 1,500-capacity Institute. The far more intimate setting than Duran’s usual stadiums provides a sense of what it must have been like to see them when they were the resident band at the Rum Runner club […]