A feel-good, disco-driven collaboration with their longtime musical partner Nile Rodgers, Duran Duran release ‘Free To Love,’ their brand-new single complete with a video directed by Jonas Åkerlund.
Co-written by Rodgers who helped shape what the band describe as a burst of positivity in a divided world, frontman Simon Le Bon said “Free To Love is disco for the 2020s. It’s up-beat and up-tempo; it’s about freedom; it’s about loving the modern world instead of hating it, and that is something we need right now. Be free! Be free to love!”
Adding to his band mates comments, keyboardist Nick Rhodes said “Every time we plug in and play with Nile, the electricity he generates could light up a whole city… Free To Love is our call to all the people out there who want peace, hope and understanding to prevail.”
Four decades since Nile first teamed up with the band, Rodgers stated “True love is free and unconditional… Whatever chaos is going on outside, inside the studio we’re free to love our peace.”
About his involvement with the video, Åkerlund said “Working with Duran Duran again, it’s clear the instinct is still there… Always bold, always pushing for more.”
One of pop’s longest-running creative partnerships, Duran Duran and Nile Rodgers first collaborated in 1984, when the CHIC front man remixed ‘The Reflex.’. He returned shortly thereafter to produce tracks on the British band’s 1986’s Notorious LP, and their relationship picked up again in the 1990s, with Rodgers contributing to the band’s 1993 self-titled Wedding Album era.
In the 2000s, the collective reconnected for live performances and studio sessions, including work on 2004’s Astronaut, and Rodgers subsequently appeared on 2015’s Paper Gods, and in the 2020s, Nile was featured on 2023’s Danse Macabre.
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Author: Saul Goode