Duran Duran with Nile Rodgers: watch the video for new single "Free To Love"

Duran Duran are back on the dancefloor. The new single "Free To Love", made together with a dancefloor guru like Nile Rodgers (Chic), looks explicitly to the late-Seventies dance music era, blending groove, funk and pop.

The connection with Rodgers is no isolated occurrence, but the latest chapter in a collaboration that began in the Eighties with "The Reflex", a pivotal moment in their commercial rise, followed by "A View To A Kill", both of which topped the US chart. In "Free To Love" that formula returns in updated form: bass pushed to the front, clean rhythm guitars and a sound design that directly recalls the Chic aesthetic, particularly "Good Times".

Lyrically, Simon Le Bon sticks to simple, direct language built around the idea of individual freedom. The official video matches this choice with a retro aesthetic: a performance staged like an episode of Top of the Pops, the iconic British music TV show of the Eighties that the band appeared on repeatedly during their peak years of exposure. The move plays on the audience's visual memory while keeping an ironic, self-aware tone.

With this single, the Birmingham band seem to be setting aside the more theatrical, concept-driven chapter of "Danse Macabre", released in 2023, in favor of a leaner sound built for the stage. This new phase coincides with a packed 2026 touring schedule, including residencies, festivals and dates across Europe and North America.

More than forty years since their debut, Duran Duran keep operating with a clear strategy: revisiting their own past without simply replaying it, while keeping a steady presence on the international pop circuit.

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