Duran Duran Giving iTunes First Crack At New Album

An expanded physical LP and various format special packages will come in February 2011. The first single from the record, title track "All You Need Is Now," will be available worldwide on December 14th exclusively on the iTunes Store.

Produced by the Grammy Award-winning Mark Ronson (Amy Winehouse, Adele, Kaiser Chiefs, Lily Allen) and mixed by Spike Stent (Madonna, Bj�rk, No Doubt), the record is a return-to-roots homage to Duran Duran's most celebrated musical panache.

Before the band embarks on their Spring 2011 world tour to promote the album, they are headed to South Africa on December 7th for a 5-date concert series marking the first time in seventeen years the band has played in Africa.

Selling over 80 million records over their three-decade career, Duran Duran certainly has a storied history, but this new tale begins in 2008. As part of a year-long run, they headlined festivals in a number of countries, playing arenas in others, and became the first group to perform at the Louvre Museum in Paris.

Two nights later, in the same city, Duran Duran treated fans to a specially created "mega-mix" one-hour set that was filmed in a tiny theatre, with long-time-fan, Mark Ronson.

This rare live performance, immediately proved that there was a powerful chemistry between Ronson and the band, and within just a few weeks, a much larger collaboration had developed, with Mark committing to produce the band's 13th studio album.

Starting out in the late Spring of 2009, at Sphere Studios in London, this much-anticipated Duran/Ronson union flourished, as writing and recording began on an exciting new body of work, which Ronson has boldly stated is the "imaginary follow up to Rio that never was."

All You Need Is Now digital LP tracklisting in full:

1. All You Need Is Now
2. Blame The Machines
3. Being Followed
4. Leave A Light On
5. Safe
6. Girl Panic
7. The Man Who Stole A Leopard
8. Runway Runaway
9. Before the Rain