Can you talk a little about the new album including an unexpected reference to the game Second Life?
We do like to continually develop our sound — which is one of the rules in our manifesto from day one — that we would never allow ourselves to get stuck in a rut. We always think of Duran Duran as an art school project. And every time we do a new album we think, “Okay, what can we do next?” We don’t try to think about what we’ve created over the last few decades, or what we should do. We just break it all down and do what we want to do. With this album it sort of happened almost by default. We had been talking with the producer Timbaland and Justin Timberlake for a few years, and they had wanted to work with us. And we said, “Yeah that’s great,” but you never think those things are going to happen with everyone’s busy schedules. But somehow the opportunity arose last year while we were finishing our album that we had been working on for a year, and we got into the studio with Timbaland. It was such an exhilarating experience. We got three songs done within five days which we loved —
