{"id":1898179,"date":"2026-04-23T07:04:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T04:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1898179"},"modified":"2026-04-23T07:04:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T04:04:55","slug":"duran-duran-and-nile-rodgers-bring-back-the-good-times-with-free-to-love-stream-it-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1898179","title":{"rendered":"Duran Duran and Nile Rodgers Bring Back the Good Times With \u2018Free to Love\u2019: Stream It Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tDark days are in the rearview, the mirrorball is back. Duran Duran\u2019s new era is all disco, baby.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe British new wave legends return with \u201cFree to Love\u201d (via Tape Modern), an ode to the era of party music that exploded from the late \u201870s, when tight rhythm sections collided with funk and glitter on the dancefloor. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIf it evokes Chic\u2019s \u201cGood Times,\u201d there\u2019s a reason for that. \u201cFree to Love\u201d is a collaboration with Nile Rodgers, the latest in a working relationship that stretches back to 1984\u2019s \u201cThe Reflex,\u201d the first of Duran Duran\u2019s two songs to hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 (\u201cA View to a Kill\u201d also topped the singles chart in 1985).<\/p>\n

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\n\tOn it, frontman Simon Le Bon sings: \u201cBe free to win or lose \/ do what you want to do \/ be free to see it through \/ out there I\u2019m free to love.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFree to Love\u201d is accompanied by an official music video, that dropped in the small hours of Thursday, April 23. The live performance clip is framed like a throwback episode of Top of the Pops<\/em>, the seminal British weekly music chart show on which Duran Duran were regulars in the 1980s. It all plays out with tongues planted firmly in cheeks, though the sight of founding bass player John Taylor with blonde spiky hair would\u2019ve blown Duranie minds back in the day.<\/p>\n

\n\tWith \u201cFree to Love,\u201d Duran Duran appear to have moved on from their Halloween era, which dawned with their 16th<\/sup> and latest album, Danse Macabre<\/em>, a collection that opened and peaked at No. 4 on the Official U.K. Chart in 2023.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Rock Hall-inducted British band is locked in for\u00a0a run of 2026 shows, including a residency next month at Bleaulive at the Fontainebleau Las Vegas, arena and festival spots in North America and across Continental Europe, and a headline date July 5 at BTS Hyde Park.<\/p>\n

\n\tRodgers, too, has a\u00a0busy itinerary\u00a0in the months ahead with concerts booked for the U.K. and Europe, North America and elsewhere.<\/p>\n

\n\tDuran Duran was arguably the biggest band in the world in the first half of the \u201880s, and have survived, and at times, thrived, when so many of their contemporaries were shafted by the changing sands of music. Along the way, the group has collected every conceivable award, including the Brit Awards\u2019 Lifetime Achievement, two Ivor Novellos, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, two Grammy Awards, and,\u00a0in 2022, long-overdue induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. In 2024, Le Bon was been named a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) by\u00a0King Charles, a salute to his services to music and charity.<\/p>\n

\n\tWatch the music video below for Duran Duran\u2019s \u201cFree to Love\u201d featuring Nile Rodgers.<\/p>\n

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