{"id":2446447,"date":"2019-07-17T15:12:27","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T21:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=860344"},"modified":"2019-07-17T15:12:27","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T21:12:27","slug":"see-duran-duran-pay-tribute-to-apollo-11-mission-at-kennedy-space-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/see-duran-duran-pay-tribute-to-apollo-11-mission-at-kennedy-space-center\/","title":{"rendered":"See Duran Duran Pay Tribute to Apollo 11 Mission at Kennedy Space Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/duran-duran-apollo-50.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/duran-duran\/\" id=\"auto-tag_duran-duran\" data-tag=\"duran-duran\">Duran Duran<\/a>, a band that took its name from a science-fiction movie, celebrated one of the world\u2019s greatest achievements in science this week by performing a concert at the Kennedy Space Center to commemorate 50 years since NASA launched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/apollo-11\/\" id=\"auto-tag_apollo-11\" data-tag=\"apollo-11\">Apollo 11<\/a> for the first successful voyage to the moon. Video from the event, which featured interstellar-themed imagery, shows frontman Simon Le Bon singing \u201cThe Universe Alone,\u201d off 2015\u2019s <em>Paper Gods<\/em> album. A swarm of \u201cstars\u201d swirls overhead while CGI stars flicker behind Le Bon and the 16-piece orchestra and 40-person choir accompanying him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe indelible impact of the moon landing has been one of Duran Duran\u2019s main sources of inspiration,\u201d keyboardist Nick Rhodes said in a statement. \u201cIn the last half-century, there have been very few events that have captured the world\u2019s attention and united everyone in such a positive way. We are truly thrilled and honored to be a part of the 50-year celebration of the Apollo 11 mission, the performance tonight, at KSCVC where the launch took place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Profits from the concert benefited the <a href=\"https:\/\/aldrinfoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Aldrin Family Foundation<\/a>\u2018s STEAM education programs. The organization seeks to inspire a new generation of \u201cspace leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a video interview last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TcqBFPBFqWo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Le Bon spoke about<\/a> how meeting Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the moon, inspired him. \u201cTo actually meet somebody who stepped on another celestial body than this one was incredible,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was extraordinary. It\u2019s amazing. He had a little laptop with him. He said, \u2018I\u2019ve got to play you guys this music. And he played us this song that went, \u2018I want to go back to the moon.\u2019 \u2026 It\u2019s an incredible thing what he did. I also think it\u2019s a tough thing to have your life defined by one single event.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/duran-duran-apollo-11-video-860344\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duran Duran, a band that took its name from a science-fiction movie, celebrated one of the world\u2019s greatest achievements in science this week by performing a concert at the Kennedy Space Center to commemorate 50 years since NASA launched Apollo 11 for the first successful voyage to the moon. Video from the event, which featured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2446447","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 18:26:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}