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A review by lizaroo71
Please Please Tell Me Now: The Duran Duran Story by Stephen Davis
3.0
I am what you call a Duranie. Without shame, I LOVE this band. The early chapters here are rehashed information from other books I've read. The author, apparently, did extensive interviews with the band and, in the early chapters, he uses direct quotes from those interviews. This gets a bit annoying as the chapter preceeding it contains all of the information in the subsequent chapter - just told in different perspectives.
Luckily, I stuck with it. This is fairly extensive. Once the band is formed, they pretty quickly begin to fall apart. John Taylor's drug use is alluded to way more than in his memoir [b:In The Pleasure Groove: Love, Death, and Duran Duran|13589176|In The Pleasure Groove Love, Death, and Duran Duran|Nigel John Taylor|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1343244415l/13589176._SY75_.jpg|19176669]. This also highlights the band's monetary woes. It seems they toured relenlessly in the early aughts to make money.
One thing that bugged me is the author indicated once that someone was gay and another time that someone was black. Why?
This sent me down a rabbit hole looking up songs and time traveling back to junior high.
The end of this one felt rushed, but it took us all the way up to 2020.
This is one of my favorites off their new album. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0j9iG8XyRQ&list=PLfiMjLyNWxeZl4lBVJRHdAV-IhMY2W24T&index=7
Luckily, I stuck with it. This is fairly extensive. Once the band is formed, they pretty quickly begin to fall apart. John Taylor's drug use is alluded to way more than in his memoir [b:In The Pleasure Groove: Love, Death, and Duran Duran|13589176|In The Pleasure Groove Love, Death, and Duran Duran|Nigel John Taylor|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1343244415l/13589176._SY75_.jpg|19176669]. This also highlights the band's monetary woes. It seems they toured relenlessly in the early aughts to make money.
One thing that bugged me is the author indicated once that someone was gay and another time that someone was black. Why?
This sent me down a rabbit hole looking up songs and time traveling back to junior high.
The end of this one felt rushed, but it took us all the way up to 2020.
This is one of my favorites off their new album. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0j9iG8XyRQ&list=PLfiMjLyNWxeZl4lBVJRHdAV-IhMY2W24T&index=7