Duran Duran are something of a phenomenon; with over 4 decades of experience in the music industry; and delighting fans in every corner of the globe during endless world tours. Snubbed and often maligned, the band quickly learned to use humour to cope with fame and adoration.

00:00 - Pre-Titles
04:00 - Introduction
08:00 - 1980 - Cedar Club Ballroom
09:08 - 1981-1982 - DD album and Rio
19:57 - 1982-1983 - Endless Kids TV Shows
27:41 - 1983 - Escapism
37:57 - 1984 - U.S tour, Diana
59:14 - 1984 - A View To a Kill
1:04:34 - 1984 - Do They Know It's Christmas and Live Aid
1:08:14 - 1985 - Power Station, Arcadia
1:18:22 - 1986-1987 - Notorious
1:25:27 - 1988-1989 - Big Thing
1:29:48 - 1990 - Liberty
1:37:26 - 1991-1993 - The Wedding Album
1:45:13 - 1995 - Thank You
1:47:12 - 1997 - John Leaves, Medazzaland
1:53:57 - 2000-2003 - Pop Trash
1:56:20 - 2004-2005 - Reunion, Astronaut
2:13:35 - 2006 - Red Carpet Massacre
2:14:23 - 2009-2012 - All You Need Is Now
2:29:52 - 2013-2017 - Paper Gods
2:37:13 - 2021-2022 - Future Past
2:43:07 - Extroduction
2:46:48 - Encore
3:00:27 - Credits
3:01:22 - New Years Eve 2023

After my second Duran movie '40 Years of Hysteria' managed to outline the iceberg, this film was made in an attempt to fill in some the gaps a bit more. I wanted to show to an uninitiated audience what kind of legacy the band has, along with some recent highlights. Because fans love and deserve it, even if I had to make the film myself!

This is the third film in this Laughing With... trilogy. It is meant to be funny, but I always shed tears during these films, especially at the very end, with the fireworks.

**Timeline History**:
**2022

31 Jan - Started to collect clips for this project almost immediately after my second DD movie, from leftover scraps, and tons off cut scenes. This film originally had a working title of 'DD Madness'. Roger mentioned in an interview that it was the Japanese gameshow which made him go crazy, so this is shown periodically throughout; like John and Simon in the other two videos, but not as chapter points this time, because Roger left the band during the middle chunk of it. The original idea was to show the crazy moments, like Nick getting high before the Joan Rivers show, etc, but this idea was quickly scrapped.

7 Mar - Started editing the clips. Everything was mostly arranged in historical order. The main focus is on John this time, including some clips while outside of the band.

10 Oct - The V1 edit is 95% finished, although some clips will be reshuffled.

1 Nov - Created a montage of silly images for the Titles, and also a spread of magazine covers. I found a clip of George Martin talking about The Beatles, and about fame and 'the roundabout'. This was so uncanny that it went into the film, with The Reflex playing in the background. The magazine covers image was used as the backdrop, with a selection of 'Look-in' cartoon comic strips placed over the top. I used to buy 'Look-in' back in the day, and had these same comics!

21 Dec - Rendered V1 for the 3 Kickstarter backers. There were two copyright issues. One was because I used an official DD promo video at the start of the film, and the other was from the B*IT awards. Sent out V1 to Backers, and various people on DD Proboards Message Board as a PM.

31 Dec - V1.2 - Replaced the copyright DD video clip at the start with a montage of the band, but kept the audio as before. Swapped in some singing and running clips of the BR*T awards to go over the top of that interview, but kept the audio.

**2023

18 Jan - V1.3 - Added the Times Square NYC event at the end of the film. Added maybe 10 more clips, including John saying it is "too early" for sex in Japan. Rendered off version 1.3, but still one copyright issue with the BR*T awards, this time for the first clip in the film. I added another montage here, but kept the audio. So now the film opens with TWO montages of the band! The end credits still roll around the 3hr mark as intended, but now the film goes over by a few mins.

22 Jan - Rendered 1.4b. (took 5hrs 40mins to render). Replaced a clip of Nick talking about copyright theft on the end credits, with the audience singing Happy Birthday to Simon badly out of sync, which now cuts to the lip synch joke.

7 Feb - Rendered 1.4e - Changed the ending credits clips again, this time a montage of the bands videos is replaced with a young clip of Simon. Added four more sing-along clips for the encore. Various tidying up of edit points for a smoother cut. Added clip of Warren during the 2000 HBO special, complaining about having a funky speaker.

12 Feb - Rendered V1.4f, rev2. Final version. Some copyright issues remain due to using Jonathan Ross etc, but no Content Blocks anymore. Started working on the English subtitles.

18 Mar - 50% of the subtitles are now done. Working on them two hours per night.

20 Apr - Finished the subtitles and released the movie before the band's 2023 tour.

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