
Duran Duran were pioneers of the music video, stars of the New Romantic scene and found fame around the world. I'll never forget it." According to Duran Duran's bassist John Taylor in his book " In the Pleasure Groove," the footage of Le Bon gasping for air after being released appeared in the final video and "made for scintillating viewing. Simon Le Bon has been a pop star for 40 years, ever since his band Duran Duran’s debut single Planet Earth rocketed into the Top 20. He has been married to Yasmin Le Bon since 27 December 1985. It was awful, waiting to see if he was okay. Simon Le Bon was studying drama and theater arts at Birmingham University when an ex-girlfriend came to visit. He is an actor and composer, known for The Saint (1997), Donnie Darko (2001) and Layer Cake (2004). He was stuck there and they had to send divers in to rescue him. In a 2011 interview with Birmingham Live, she stated, "The windmill stopped when he was under the water and he couldn't breathe. While Le Bon downplays the situation's seriousness, the video's choreographer, Arlene Phillips, remembers it being quite terrifying to witness. Simon,I’m a big Duran Duran fan but even if I wasn’t I agree with you.i hope things get better.You got 5 people to support and a family is expensive. As part of Duran Duran, Simon has been awarded six Lifetime Achievement Awards, two Ivor Novello awards one for the song Ordinary World, and one in 2005 from The PRS for Outstanding Contribution to British Music, a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, two Grammy Awards, two MTV Music Awards (Music. The harrowing scenario became all too real when the windmill malfunctioned, trapping the singer underwater. Simon Le Bon is the lead singer of the iconic British band Duran Duran. The video's director, Russell Mulcahy, loved it and intensified the concept by having the windmill plunge Le Bon's head into a pool of water as it turned. Duran Duran were fantastically preposterous during their prime. In a 2020 interview with the BBC's Saturday Live, Le Bon revealed that he came up with the idea of being strapped upside down to the sail of a rotating windmill and forced to perform while in the stressful situation. Duran Duran: Simon Le Bon on stage at 3Arena with John Taylor, Nick Rhodes and Dom Brown.
