Parents' Guide to Duran Duran: There's Something You Should Know

The movie's subtitle comes from the band's eighth single and first number one record, the 1983 Is There Something I Should Know. DURAN DURAN: THERE'S SOMETHING YOU SHOULD KNOW features the band's catchy bops from albums Rio, Notorious, and Paper Gods. The overall picture is a Cliff Notes review of their humble Birmingham origins with cursory notes on the members' bios. Nick Rhodes and John Taylor found each other as youths through an enthusiasm for music and glam rock. Drummer Roger Taylor expected to be a manual laborer like his dad until music steered him elsewhere. Vocalist Simon Le Bon, ex-choirboy, visits his old parish and listens to his angelic prepuberty recorded voice. The group had a blast on stage in ruffled shirts, lipstick and eye makeup, matador jackets, displaying a swaggery adherence to the beat that made every concert a dance fest. The group members were close until they weren't and Andy Taylor left to be with his family. A reinvention of sorts occurred when producer-guitarist Nile Rodgers joined the collaboration and altered their sound. Success came despite critical bashing. One critic noted, "Duran Duran are going to be huge, and they really don't deserve any of it." But as one member looks back at their endurance, he says, "We accept each other's faults and quirks," and "after 40 years, we're still here."