{"id":2385526,"date":"2026-04-23T08:39:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T08:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2385526"},"modified":"2026-04-23T08:39:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T08:39:02","slug":"duran-duran-release-new-single-free-to-love-w-nile-rodgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/duran-duran-release-new-single-free-to-love-w-nile-rodgers\/","title":{"rendered":"Duran Duran release new single &#8216;Free To Love&#8217; w\/ Nile Rodgers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Global music icons Duran Duran today unveil their first new music of 2026 with \u2018Free To Love\u2019, the brand new single featuring longtime collaborator Nile Rodgers. The song, which is accompanied by a Jonas \u00c5kerlund-directed music video starring Clara Amfo \u2013 made in association with Italian luxury perfumer Xerjoff \u2013 follows the huge news that the band will headline London\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bst-hydepark.com\/\">BST Hyde Park<\/a> for the second time on 5th July 2026, supported by special guests Scissor Sisters. \u2018Free To Love\u2019 launched on the BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show this morning and is available everywhere now.<\/p>\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<p>An uplifting, high-energy track built around a euphoric groove, \u2018Free To Love\u2019 features and was co-written by the legendary Nile Rodgers. The new single delivers an explosive strain of cyber-funk \u2013 fun, immediate and built for the dancefloor, while carrying a message of positivity, openness and love in the face of a very divided world. <\/p>\n<p>Introducing \u2018Free To Love\u2019, Simon Le Bon said: <em>\u201cFree To Love is disco for the 2020s. It\u2019s up-beat and up-tempo; it\u2019s about freedom; it\u2019s about loving the modern world instead of hating it, and that is something we need right now. Be free! Be free to love!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2018Free To Love\u2019 is the latest in a long line of Duran Duran x Nile Rodgers collaborations that first began with a remix of the iconic #1 smash single, \u2018The Reflex\u2019 more than four decades ago. <\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Duran Duran\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/artist\/0lZoBs4Pzo7R89JM9lxwoT?utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Speaking about their latest work, Nile Rodgers said: <em>\u201cTrue love is free and unconditional. My love for Duran Duran and what our music together has always been about, is the love we share for our song\u2019s deepest meanings.  Whatever chaos is going on outside, inside the studio we\u2019re free to love our peace.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The high energy music video for \u2018Free To Love\u2019 is directed by the legendary Jonas \u00c5kerlund (Madonna, Beyonc\u00e9, Metallica, Lady Gaga), with fashion direction and costume design by Bea \u00c5kerlund, and stars British radio broadcaster, TV presenter, and podcast host Clara Amfo introducing the band and Nile Rodgers before a spectacular Top of The Pops-style performance.  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/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.totalntertainment.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global music icons Duran Duran today unveil their first new music of 2026 with \u2018Free To Love\u2019, the brand new single featuring longtime collaborator Nile Rodgers. The song, which is accompanied by a Jonas \u00c5kerlund-directed music video starring Clara Amfo \u2013 made in association with Italian luxury perfumer Xerjoff \u2013 follows the huge news that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2385527,"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":[353215,464967,464968,464969,464970],"class_list":["post-2385526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-duran-duran","tag-duran-duran-new-music","tag-duran-duran-new-release","tag-duran-duran-new-single","tag-duran-duran-nile-rodgers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Duran-Duran-release-new-single-Free-To-Love-w-Nile.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385526","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=2385526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2385528,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385526\/revisions\/2385528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2385527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2385526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2385526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2385526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}