{"id":2385436,"date":"2026-04-23T07:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T07:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2385436"},"modified":"2026-04-23T07:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T07:08:07","slug":"duran-duran-nile-rogers-unveil-new-song-free-to-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/duran-duran-nile-rogers-unveil-new-song-free-to-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Duran Duran, Nile Rogers Unveil New Song &#8216;Free To Love&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Keyboardist Nick Rhodes called the band&#8217;s latest collaboration a &#8220;call to all the people out there who want peace, hope and understanding to prevail&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/duran-duran\/\" id=\"auto-tag_duran-duran\" data-tag=\"duran-duran\">Duran Duran<\/a> revealed their first new music of 2026 on Thursday, \u2018Free To Love,\u2019 their new single featuring longtime collaborator Nile Rodgers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cEvery time we plug in and play with Nile, the electricity he generates could light up a whole city. We share a common belief that music is a force for good and something that brings positive energy into the world,\u201d keyboardist Nick Rhodes said in a statement. The musician called the new track the band\u2019s \u201ccall to all the people out there who want peace, hope and understanding to prevail\u201d and an \u201canthem for freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cFree to Love\u201d is the latest in the band\u2019s long line of collaborations with Rodgers that first<br \/>began with a remix of the band\u2019s 1984 track \u201cThe Reflex,\u201d the group\u2019s first song to top the Billboard Hot 100.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tRodgers echoed Rhodes\u2019 words and said, \u201cMy love for Duran Duran and what our music together has<br \/>always been about is the love we share for our song\u2019s deepest meanings.\u201d Rodgers added, \u201cWhatever chaos is going on outside, inside the studio we\u2019re free to love our peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Duran Duran - Free to Love (feat. Nile Rodgers) [Official Music Video]\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W1-2XVQs46U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe song arrived alongside a music <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/video\/\" id=\"auto-tag_video\" data-tag=\"video\">video<\/a> directed by Jonas \u00c5kerlund and stars British broadcaster and personality Clara Amfo. In the video, the band delivers the nostalgic-driven track amid a glittering disco party. Last month, Duran Duran announced that they will top the bill at London\u2019s BST Hyde Park for the second time on July 5 with special guests Scissor Sister. The band previously headlined the event in 2022 and last summer, joined Sabrina Carpenter during the pop singer\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/sabrina-carpenter-duran-duran-perform-hungry-like-the-wolf-1235379506\/\">second night at BST as surprise guests <\/a>to perform \u201cHungry Like the Wolf.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/rock-hall-of-fame-duran-duran-performance-1234625392\/\">Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame inductees<\/a> are set to headline California\u2019s Beachlife Festival, followed by a multi-night Las Vegas residency at the Fontainebleau that will be followed by a month-long run through Europe.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.rollingstone.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keyboardist Nick Rhodes called the band&#8217;s latest collaboration a &#8220;call to all the people out there who want peace, hope and understanding to prevail&#8221; Duran Duran revealed their first new music of 2026 on Thursday, \u2018Free To Love,\u2019 their new single featuring longtime collaborator Nile Rodgers. \u201cEvery time we plug in and play with Nile, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2385437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[353215,21942],"class_list":["post-2385436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-duran-duran","tag-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Duran-Duran-Nile-Rogers-Unveil-New-Song-Free-To-Love.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2385436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2385438,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385436\/revisions\/2385438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2385437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2385436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2385436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2385436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}