Timeline:2004
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| The REUNION Tour continues | |
| Jan 30 | Duran Duran: Laurie Auditorium, San Antonio TX, USA. |
| Feb 1 | Duran Duran: Superbowl XXXV111 Tailgate Party, Reliant Center, Houston TX, USA. The band perform "Wild Boys" and is broadcast to over one billion people worldwide. |
| Feb | Duran return to the Studio in London, where they work with Producers Don Gilmore and Dallas Austin, and re-mixer Jason Nevins. |
| Feb | The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) honour the band at their February Awards show, The Brits, with the Outstanding Contribution to Music Award. The Award is presented to the band by Justin Timberlake. |
| Feb | An after party is thrown for Duran Duran in honour of the win at The Brits. The bash is held at the Adam Street private members’ club, and is attended by Justin Timberlake, Gwen Stefani, Scarlett Johansson, Alicia Keys, Philip Treacy, Jamelia, The Queens of Noize, Stephen Fry, Badly Drawn Boy, Timbaland, and others. Harpers & Queen magazine covers the event with a pictorial. |
| Feb 10 | A new track, "Sunrise" mixed by Jason Nevins, is included on Capitol Records' Queer Eye for the Straight Guy (soundtrack). |
| ? | Duran announces four UK arena shows, which sell out almost immediately. They perform 17 shows to over 200,000 people across Britain. The last two shows, at London’s Wembley Arena, are filmed. |
| ? | NASA sends a second Mars Exploration Rover into Space called Opportunity, whose main task is to investigate whether Mars ever had environments that were suitable for sustaining life. Each morning the Rover is awoken by a song, and in early February NASA chooses Duran Duran’s "Is There Something I Should Know?" in hopes of encouraging opportunity to find some more answers. |
| Apr 7 | Duran Duran: Odyssey Arena, Belfast, UK. |
| Apr 8 | Duran Duran: Point Theatre, Dublin, Ireland |
| Apr | A group of Duran fans attend every UK show of the tour, sponsored by the automobile company KIA, who provide the women with a KIA Rio as transportation. |
| ? | Deep Visual develops a projection for the Duran Duran UK Tour, featuring a Manga cartoon during the song "Careless Memories". |
| Apr 11 | Duran Duran: Nottingham Arena, Nottingham Arena, UK. |
| Apr 13 | Duran Duran: Wembley Arena, London,UK. |
| Apr 14 | Duran Duran: Wembley Arena, London, UK. |
| Apr 15 | Duran Duran: S.E.C.C., Glasgow, UK. |
| Apr 17 | Duran Duran: M.E.N., Manchester, UK.(with Goldfrapp) |
| Apr 18 | Duran Duran: N.E.C., Birmingham, UK.(with Goldfrapp) |
| Apr 19 | Duran Duran: N.E.C., Birmingham, UK. (with Goldfrapp) |
| Apr 21 | Duran Duran: M.E.N., Manchester, UK. |
| Apr 22 | Duran Duran: Telewest Arena, Newcastle, UK. |
| Apr 24 | Duran Duran: Wembley Arena, London, UK. |
| Apr 25 | Duran Duran: N.E.C.,Birmingham, UK. |
| Apr 27 | Duran Duran: Hallam FM Arena, Sheffield, UK. |
| Apr 28 | Duran Duran: Cardiff International Arena, Cardiff, UK. |
| Apr 30 | Duran Duran: Wembley Arena, London, UK. |
| May 1 | Duran Duran: Wembley Arena, London, UK. |
| Jun 1 | The classical music tribute album The String Quartet Tribute to Duran Duran released by Vitamin Records. |
| ? | Simon, Nick and Roger visit the BRIT school in Croydon, England, where they inspect the dance studio, theatre, recording studio and technology labs before facing a grilling in a Q&A session from 50 students. Duran Duran plays to more than a quarter of a million people on their UK tour and break the house record on May 1st at their final UK Wembley Arena show. Wembley Arena is subsequently demolished, so the record will remain. |
| ? | Greatest CD re-enters the UK chart at #3. |
| ? | Nick is asked to Oxford University for their annual debate. He is partnered with U2 Manager Paul McGuiness as they discuss “This House believes that reality T.V is killing real music.” Nick & Paul believe this to be true, but do not win the debate. |
| ? | Duran attends the FIFA 100 Charity Auction & Tribute Ceremony, honouring the top 100 living football (soccer) players, at the Natural History Museum in London. The band allows FIFA to use "Beautiful Colours" as an accompaniment to a video clip showing great football moments of the last fifty years. |
| ? | Due to the success of the Singles Box Set 1981-1985 and Greatest DVD, which was certified Platinum, EMI releases the Sing Blue Silver documentary and Arena The Making of Arena live concert film on DVD as well as a mini box set of the albums Rio and Seven and the Ragged Tiger. |
| Jun | The band signs a worldwide deal with Epic Records. |
| ? | Official Duran Duran ringtones become available for the first time, featuring songs "Rio", "Girls on Film", "Planet Earth", "Wild Boys", "Ordinary World" and "Notorious". |
| Aug | Duran attend the MTV'S Music Awards and are surprised when Justin Timberlake tells the band what a big influence they had been on him. |
| ? | John is the center of a six-page feature in The Face magazine, where he reports on how it feels to be a transplanted Englishman in Los Angeles. |
| Sep 13 | EMI releases Singles Box Set 1986-1995. |
| ? | Each band member films their “own” video of "Sunrise" with the Polish Brothers. These are later released on ITunes Internationally. |
| ? | "Sunrise" gets the re-mix treatment from Alex G, Jason Nevins, Eric Prydz, Ferry Corsten & Full Intention. |
| ? | Nick is asked to photograph guests attending the Serpentine Gallery’s Annual Summer Party. His work appears as a spread in Tatler magazine. |
| Sep 27 | Duran’s single, "Sunrise" is released off their upcoming album in October. and quickly rises up the charts worldwide, hitting Number 1 on the Billboard. |
| Sep | Duran appears at In Store appearances at Saturn (Berlin), HMV (Birmingham and London) and Virgin MegaStore (New York and Los Angeles) to rapturous crowds who camp out overnight to meet the band. |
| Sep | "Sunrise" is used on a commercial for TIM Mobile phones in Italy, as well as the theme song for the UK version of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and the Australian Morning Show, Sunrise. |
| Sep | The band embarks on endless promotion for their single, appearing on the television shows Top of the Pops, The Lottery, Time Lovejoy’s All Stars, The Jonathan Ross Show, TRL in the UK and Italy, The Tonight Show Featuring Jay Leno, The Late Late Show, Last Call with Carson Daly, Good Morning America, Live! With Regis and Kelly and many others. |
| ? | World Idol winner Kurt Nilsen covers Duran Duran’s "Ordinary World" on his debut album, released by BMG. |
| ? | Boy band PHIXX covers Duran Duran’s "Wild Boys". |
| Oct 1 | The song "Ordinary World" is used in the Matthew Vaughn film Layer Cake. |
| Oct | Astronaut is released in the following formats: CD, CD with Bonus Track (Japan), CD/DVD (with footage of the band’s Wembley performances and behind-the-scenes footage), Double 12” Vinyl. |
| Oct 3 | Duran Duran:Columbiahalle, Berlin, Germany. |
| Oct 11 | Epic releases Astronaut, the first album of new material featuring the original line up since Seven and the Ragged Tiger. |
| Oct 11 | Top US morning show, Good Morning America, shut down 44th Street, in New York, for the first time in the show’s history, for a three song performance by Duran Duran on the day of the album’s release. |
| Oct | Astronaut hits #1 on the Billboard Download chart the first week of release. |
| Nov 1 | "Hungry Like The Wolf" is used in the DVD release of Shrek 2. |
| Nov | Duran is honoured with the Ondas Award for Musical Achievement in Barcelona, Spain. |
| Nov 18 | Simon and Nick attend the MTV Europe Awards in Rome and present the Best New Artist Award to Maroon 5. |
| Dec 2 | Duran Duran: Jingle Jam, Gwinnet Arena, Atlanta GA, USA. |
| Dec 3 | Duran Duran: Jingle Ball, Cox Arena, San Diego CA, USA. |
| Dec 5 | Duran Duran: VH1 Bailey's The Set, Sony Studios, Culver City CA, USA. |
| Dec 6 | Duran Duran: Not So Silent Night, The Theatre At The Pond, Anaheim CA, USA. |
| ? | The video for "What Happens Tomorrow" is filmed in Los Angeles with Directors Smith N Boran. |
| ? | Nick Rhodes participates in the Guy Oseary book On The Record: Over 150 Of The Most Talented People In Music Share The Secrets Of Their Success. |
| ? | Duran appears on the cover of the Radio Times in London with respected Newscasters dressed up as "The Wild Boys" to support the Children in Need charity. |
| ? | Kelis mixes the Duran Duran song "Notorious" in to her single "Trick Me". |
| ? | The band tapes a performance on the hit NBC Television show Las Vegas, which airs in January, 2005. |
| ? | "What Happens Tomorrow" remixes done by Peter Rauhofer, Reconstruction Mix and Reconstruction Dub. |
| Dec 28 | A 60 minute interview album Maximum Duran Duran released by Chrome Dreams. |
| ? | Nick Rhodes is given a football after his appearance on Tim Lovejoy’s Allstars TV program in the UK. He then has the football signed by many celebrities for the Lighthouse charity to auction off. |
| ? | "Nice Remixes" done by Lindberg Palace, 456 Productions, Mike Greig, JD aka Dready, Pablo La Rosa, Johnson Somerset and Eric Prydz.
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