It was a fun if inauspicious beginning to a mostly slick and often triumphant show. The band was all but inaudible other than singer Simon Le Bon, whose vocals were essentially a cappella. The shrieking crowd was there for it, but the music wasn’t. The first act inducted at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles after a memorable speech from a shaven-headed Robert Downey Jr., Duran Duran took the stage and launched into their 1981 breakthrough hit “Girls on Film.” So are Carly Simon, Eurythmics, Harry Belafonte, Judas Priest and Dolly Parton, who gave the honor an enthusiastic embrace after temporarily turning it down. The four acts found very different ways to celebrate on Saturday night, but all can now forever say they’re Rock & Roll Hall of Famers.
Duran Duran stumbled but stayed sophisticated.
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