Simon Le Bon

Profession: Singer
Place/Date of Birth: Bushey, 27 October 2020
Associated with: Yasmin Le Bon

The World According to Simon
"We’ve discovered that our real strength lies in what we are and not what we want to be. It’s like a jigsaw puzzle with five pieces. But the puzzle doesn’t have curly edges. Instead, there are rectangles, and pentagons and triangles and they all have to fit together. The outside must be a perfect circle because that is strongest shape and there everything is equal. We’ve had to fill in all the gaps inside and round off all the corners on the outside and still reconcile the true shapes of what we are within."
April 1982

"I’m incredibly wealthy because I’m doing something that I want to do. Whereas some kids want to be train drivers, I always wanted to be a pop singer. And I’m getting paid for it. And I’m surrounded by people I love. I feel strong and alive and I love life. I wouldn’t want to change a thing. It’s everyone’s dream."
April 1982

"Is it hard work? Well I don’t know. Some people might think that going round different countries and making music is definitely not hard work. One of the reasons we’ve had so much success is that we’ve gone out and enjoyed ourselves. People like that."
December 1982

"I still feel like we’re a new group, especially in England. I don’t feel like we’re established at all. People think we’re a lot bigger than we are."
April 1984

"When we released the Union Of The Snake, we were getting all this bunny on how it’ll go straight in at Number One, and it just didn’t happen. It was terrible. We’d got to the point where we thought we could release a fart and it’d go to Number One. We simply rested on our laurels and we were wrong."
August 1984

"I don’t think I’ve grown particularly big-headed. What I don’t like is wasting time and that can be construed as arrogance. I mean, I don’t sit in front of the mirror and preen. I don’t love myself to death. I just don’t think I’ve got any bad points." August 1984

"It was good keeping Wham! off the top for a week. After all their boasting about how they were going to go straight in at number one, and sticking their necks out like that. There’s nothing more unattractive in an artist than a false sense of importance."
August 1984

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Biography

Don’t just think of Simon Le Bon as a has-been 80’s popstar, he is actually a rather successful 80’s pop star. As singer of Duran Duran, Simon has sold over 60 million records in his career, strangely more that 50% of those in the last 10 years. Unbelievable but true.

Full name: Simon John Charles Le Bon
Born: October 27th 1958 Bushey Maternity Hospital, Herts, England
Height: 6’2" eyes: blue brothers: Jonathon and David Education: West Lodge Junior, Pinner, Pinner Grammar School, Harrow Art College, Birmingham University
Married to: the divine Yasmin (ah, the perks of pop)
Children: Amber Rose Tamara (25/08/89), Saffron Sahara (25/09/90), Tallulah Pine (10/09/94)
June 2007