2019 sees the wild boys (mostly) from Birmingham claim their 40th year in pop. Celebrate differently with these deeper cuts from the cannon. You can get the more obvious choices elsewhere!

At their peak, I couldn’t much stand Duran Duran. They were too good looking and ubiquitous, and besides, I was a rocker. In the mid 80’s peak Duran time I was a northern council estate kid into the LA rock scene - Van Halen, Ratt, Motley Crue, that kind of stuff. Duran Duran was literally, music for girls. Then something strange happened. Read more.