Timeline:1994

{{Timeline page header|1993|1994|1995|

{{Timeline year header}} {{C| |The Dilute Your Mind Tour continuesThe band finishes the North American tour, picking up some of the dates postponed from October|headliner=dd}} {{C|Jan 2|Duran Duran: Target Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA (with James)|headliner=dd}} {{C|Jan 4|Duran Duran: The Palace, Auburn Hills, MI, USA (with James)|headliner=dd}} {{C|Jan 6|Duran Duran: Hartford Civic Center, Hartford, CT, USA (with RuPaul and James)|headliner=dd}} {{C|Jan 9|Duran Duran: The Patriot Center (George Mason University), Fairfax, VA, USA (with James)|headliner=dd}} {{C|Jan 10|Duran Duran: [venue], West Point, NY, USA (with James)|headliner=dd}} {{C|Jan 11|Duran Duran: Radio City Music Hall, New York, NY USA (with James)|headliner=dd}} {{E|Jan 12|Simon: appears again on the Z100 Morning radio show (New York, NY); answers callers questions Nick and John interviewed on the Larry King radio show; take callers questions|}} {{C|Jan 12|Duran Duran: Radio City Music Hall, New York, NY, USA (with James)|headliner=dd}} {{C|Jan 13|Duran Duran: Radio City Music Hall, New York, NY, USA (with James)|headliner=dd}} {{C|Jan 15|Duran Duran: Elliott Hall, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA (with James)|headliner=dd}} {{C|Jan 16|Duran Duran: McGaw Hall (Northwestern University), Evanston, IL, USA (with James)|headliner=dd}} {{E|Jan 17|John: interviewed on Fritz Radio, Germany|}} {{C| |The DILATE YOUR MIND Tour in the UK Band returns to England to perform dates rescheduled from 1993; opening act is World Service, with early Duran Duran member Andy Wickett|headliner=dd}} {{C|Jan 22|Duran Duran: G-Mex Centre, Manchester, England (with World Service)|headliner=dd}} {{C|Jan 24|Duran Duran: Sheffield Arena, Sheffield, England (with World Service) The only UK show John doesn't wear a kilt|headliner=dd}} {{C|Jan 25|Duran Duran: National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, England (with World Service)|headliner=dd}} {{C|Jan 27|Duran Duran: Cardiff International Centre, Cardiff, Wales (with K-Passa) the opening act is a Bristol-based "cajun/folk/headbang" band fronted by Simon Le Bon's cousin, Simon Edwards; IWERKS film crew does preliminary shots in preparation for a full-scale filming in London|headliner=dd}} {{C|Jan 28|Duran Duran: Wembley Arena, London, England (with opening act Paris Working, and guests Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five)''Show is filmed in widescreen IWERKS format, directed by Kevin Godley; this footage has never been released. Amanda De Cadenet's TV show The Word has a live broadcast from the backstage after-show party''|headliner=dd}} {{E|Jan 31|Simon is "god for a day" on BBC Radio 1; he decides who he would like on his cloud, who he would make a saint, and who he would hit with a thunderbolt}} {{C|Jan 31|Duran Duran: Bournemouth International Centre, Bournemouth, England (with World Service)|headliner=dd}} {{E|Feb 1|Simon interviewed while lying in bed, by Paula Yates, on London TV show Big Breakfast}} {{C|Feb 1|Duran Duran: Brighton Centre, Brighton, England cancelled so that the band can attend a record company meeting in France|headliner=dd}} {{C| |The DILATE YOUR MIND Tour in Europe|headliner=dd}} {{C|Feb 4|Duran Duran: Forest National, Brussels, Belgium (no opening act)|headliner=dd}} {{C|Feb 5|Duran Duran: Le Zénith, Paris, France|headliner=dd}} {{C|Feb 6|Duran Duran: Sports Centre, Grevenmacher, Luxembourg|headliner=dd}} {{E|Feb 21|Extraordinary World documentary released on laserdisc and on video; includes all the videos from the Liberty album and The Wedding Album)|}} {{C| |The DILATE YOUR MIND Tour in the Middle East|headliner=dd}} {{C|Feb ?|Duran Duran: [venue?], Tel Aviv, Israel|headliner=dd}} {{C|Feb ?|Duran Duran: [venue?], Haifa, Israel|headliner=dd}} {{E|Feb 11|Duran Duran: Pepsi Dance Nights 1, Istanbul, Turkey broadcast live on Turkish T.V.|}} {{E|?    |Duran works on the Thank You album in Entibe}} {{E|?  |Simon calls from Los Angeles to do phone interview during Q101 Retro Flashback Weekend in Chicago, IL, USA (during recording of the Thank You album)}} {{E|? |Simon meets Michael Hutchence; it's difficult to pry Simon away from his new friend to get him into the studio - Nick Rhodes (Deluxe Magazine 12/98)}} {{E|? |Simon falls out a first floor window, but lands without injury}} {{E|? |Nick arranges for John Jones to help the band set up a studio in a villa on the Cap d'Antibes in the South of France; a truckful of equipment is driven in from London.}} {{E|? |Roger joins Nick and Warren in France to work on "Perfect Day", "Watching the Detectives", "Ball and Chain" and "Jeepster" (later scrapped) }} {{E|?|"Perfect Day" and "Watching the Detectives" sent to Dave Richards in Switzerland for mixing.}} {{E|? |Duran records Bob Dylan's "Lay Lady Lay", and an Alice Cooper song.}} {{E|? |John Jones works for three months in Los Angeles mixing and overdubbing the Thank You album.}} {{E|Mar 22|Cover of Led Zeppelin's "Thank You" (demo version) released on With Honors soundtrack from Madonna's Maverick Label}} {{E|Mar 29 |Duran's live version of "Come Up and See Me (Make Me Smile)" available on CD for the first time on the Threesome movie soundtrack from Epic Soundtrax }} {{C|Apr 12 |Duran Duran: Blaisdell Arena, Honolulu, HI, USA|headliner=dd}} {{E|May |"Ordinary World receives Ivor Novello award for Most Performed Work.}} {{E|Jun 2|"Girls on Film" appears on the Rhino compilation New Wave Hits of the 80s: Volume 4 }} {{E|end June|Warren goes back to New York, works for ten days with his brother and ex-Kajagoogoo bassist Nick Beggs on some new solo material.}} {{E|? |John announces the Power Station reunion on Larry King's Open Mike America programme, as he goes back into the studio with the band.}} {{E|?|Warren does phone interview on Z100 radio (New York, NY) }} {{E|Jul 18|Duran's Dilate Your Mind tour stage manager Don Burton marries Cranberries lead singer Dolores O'Riordan.}} {{E|Aug|Warren records Thanks 2 Frank album over the course of two days.}} {{E|Sep|Anthony J. Resta mixes "911 Is a Joke" at Sound Techniques studios in Boston, adding new drums and samples of conch shells, a cowboy lady, and more}} {{E|Sep 10|Tallulah Pine LeBon born to Simon and Yasmin.}} {{E|Sep |Nick appears on Modern Roots radio show in UK }} {{E|Oct |Anthony J. Resta and his partner Bob St. John are invited to London to do post-production and mixing on the rest of the Thank You album}} {{E|Oct-Nov|Anthony and Bob work at Metropolis Studios in London on much of the Thank You album, and two remixes of "White Lines" }} {{E|Dec ?|John chats with fans on AOL }} {{E|? |Anthony and Bob work on a new mix for Dylan's "Lay Lady Lay" at Longview Farm Studios in Boston, but the track is deemed too "way out there" by the band.}} {{E|? |Tim Palmer remixes "Lay Lady Lay" again, using some of Anthony's work.}} {{E|Dec 30 |John reports on AOL that the record company is holding up the release of Thank You over the arrangements for "Lay Lady Lay"}}

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