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Issue 21, July 1993

I stayed the cold day with a lonely satellite

Back on May 15th 1993, Duran Duran played a concert at the Tower Records store in L.A., which was broadcast live by satellite to Tower Records stores in London, Tokyo, Sydney and Cologne. Then-TDGD editor Iris was in London to witness this unique event.

Because the concert started at 8.30am, I had to get up at 5.20, 6.19 in the underground, 7.00 at Leicester Square and five minutes later I was at Tower Records. But as a Duran fan you don't complain about things like that, you just do what you have to do.

When we arrived at Tower Records there were about 15 fans waiting outside and I had expected at least 50 people there, so that was a bit disappointing. When the concert started there were not even a hundred people! I don't know if it was because it was too early in the morning, or that the people just weren't interested in a concert like that.

Well, they showed the concert on some crappy slide screen or other somewhere in the corner of the store. The presenter of Top of the Pops was there to present the happening.

First Duran was to play, answer some questions in between songs and after that we would really get the chance to ask some questions, you could ask whatever you wanted!

The show itself was okay, but to me it was nothing special. It was just like watching some videotape instead of a live concert. I mean, you just don't dance, sing and clap in front of a screen! They did their 'normal' semi-acoustic show, it wasn't bad and it wasn't spectacular, it was just okay.

When the concert was finished there was the possibility to ask Duran questions via satellite and I was really looking forward to that. I expected some great, refreshing questions, this time asked by the fans instead of some journalists who ask the same questions over and over again...

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