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Royal Mail to release special Duran Duran stamps to celebrate five-decade career

The release is focused around the band’s album artwork as it charts their journey from the Birmingham club scene to international acclaim

The Independent UK · Sep 9

Simon Le Bon ‘fortunate’ to be part of Duran Duran as Royal Mail stamps unveiled

Royal Mail is releasing a set of stamps to celebrate Duran Duran’s almost five-decade career.

Evening Standard · Sep 9

Breakout indie band Westside Cowboy on rejecting tech and loving imperfection: ‘We’re not hermits!’

Despite their fast rise, the Manchester indie-pop band are happily going at their own pace. But what – if anything – did they learn from the advice of Duran Duran’s Simon Le Bon?

The Guardian - UK · Aug 24

'Laughably conceited': Simon LeBon slams musicians for talking politics

Simon Le Bon thinks musicians talking about politics are "laughably conceited" and looking for credibility.

BANG Premier · May 11

“Cruise Ship Designer sounded so weird, I would have been scared if you’d said it would ever become a single”: We speak to Dry Cleaning about the making of the Cate Le Bon-produced Secret Love

Post-punk indie futurists Dry Cleaning have set the bar high for 2026 albums with their masterful third album Secret Love. They tells us how they created it in cahoots with acclaimed producer Cate Le Bon…

MusicRadar · Feb 17

“The email said, ‘John Cale is looking for you.’ It absolutely terrified me. I thought I was in trouble!” How the Velvet Underground icon voiced a powerful song on Cate Le Bon’s new album

Michelangelo Dying, which she says is more of an exorcism than an album, was nearly released without Cale performing on the track Ride, because she was too afraid to ask him

Louder · Feb 4

Albums of the Year 2025: who made our top ten?

This was a tough call, but here are the best albums of the year…

Evening Standard · Dec 30, 2025

Pyres, Screams and Light: Here are the Best Albums of 2025

Join us for Euronews Culture's countdown to our favourite album of the year. How many have you heard?

Euronews · Dec 19, 2025

Culture Digest: The best things to do, hear, see or watch in Europe this week

A new Paul Thomas Anderson movie, healing from heartbreak with Welsh musician Cate Le Bon, and a meeting of medieval aesthetics and contemporary gothic. Here's what's happening this week.

Euronews · Sep 22, 2025

‘The breakup was like an amputation that saves you’: Cate Le Bon on healing from heartache and her heavy new album

After a long relationship ended painfully, the acclaimed singer-producer swapped the Californian desert for south Wales – and set to work on her most emotionally direct record yet. ‘It’s been discombobulating,’ she says

The Guardian - UK · Jun 8, 2025