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  Simon Le Bon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Simon John Charles Le Bon (born October 27, 1958) is the lead singer and lyricist of the pop band Duran Duran.
Le Bon's ex-girlfriend Shane Gray (a barmaid at the Rum Runner nightclub where Duran Duran was rehearsing) introduced him to the band in May of 1980, recommending him as a potential vocalist.
Simon agreed to "try them out for the summer"; within six weeks the band was playing steadily around Birmingham and London, and a national tour supporting Hazel O'Connor led to a record deal with EMI Records in December.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Simon_Le_Bon   (1198 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Simon Le Bon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Vocalist Simon Le Bon of Duran Duran in concert at the Pacific Amphitheatre in Costa Mesa, California on July 16, 2003.
Le Bon was a member of his church choir from a very young age, but primarily trained as an actor.
Simon John Charles Le Bon (born October 27, 1958) is the lead singer of the pop band Duran Duran.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Simon-Le-Bon   (2936 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Simon Le Bon Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Le Bon's ex-girlfriend Fiona Kemp (a barmaid at the Rum Runner club where Duran Duran was rehearsing) introduced him to the band in May of 1980, recommending him as a potential vocalist.
That year Le Bon also wooed the young fashion model Yasmin Parveneh, after seeing her face in a magazine and calling the modelling agency until he tracked her down.
They married on December 27, 1985 and Yasmin Le Bon has gone on to a supermodel career of unusual longevity, spanning twenty years despite the births of their three daughters: Amber (born 1989), Saffron (1990) and Tallulah (1994).
www.ipedia.com /simon_le_bon.html   (832 words)

  
 Simon_Le_Bon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Le Bon was a member of the local church choir from a young age, but was also trained as an actor.
Le Bon's ex-girlfriend Fiona Kemp (a barmaid at the Rum Runner nightclub where Duran Duran was rehearsing) introduced him to the band in May of 1980, recommending him as a potential vocalist.
While Duran Duran was on hiatus in 1985, Le Bon drew media attention when his maxi-yacht ''Drum'' lost its keel and capsized during the Fastnet race, trapping him and other crew members inside the hull for forty minutes.
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 Simon Le Bon in Wandsworth
Lead singer Simon Le Bon andNick Rhodes had toured together as Duran Duran over the years but this was the first gig they had all done since the 1985 Live Aid concert.
It's been rumoured that Wandsworth resident Simon Le Bon and the other original members are working in a studio recording material for a new album and tour...
Simon wasn't the only star to strut his stuff in Prada - joining him were ex-Boyzone Keith Duffy, with Naomi Campbell and Jerry Hall to show him how its done - that is if Yasmin didn't give him a few pointers first.
www.mywandsworth.co.uk /wandsworth/celebs&gossip-simon_bon.htm   (630 words)

  
 Simon Le Bon
Simon is the eldest of three brothers, coming from a showbiz background, his Grandmother was one of the original Tiller girls, his mothers aunt once danced before the Queen with the famous Ziegfeld Follies and his Grandfather was part of the respected Ernest Read Choir.
Simon used to fear demons when he was a child and used to protect himself by putting toy soldiers on his window sill, he also had an off white teddy bear with a stern expression called Shockermoler who wore an eye patch and had a saftey pin through his ear who was his best guard!
Simon appeared in several amateur stage productions such as The King and I when he was 7, Bless the bride with the Harrow light opera company, Little Lord Fauntleroy (where he got his first taste of the frilly shirts!) and A man for all seasons.
www.angelfire.com /pop2/connections/Biographies/simonbio.htm   (653 words)

  
 Yasmin Le Bon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yasmin Le Bon (nee Parvaneh) (born October 29, 1964) is a British supermodel.
She was born in Britain of Iranian and English descent.
Although she was a successful model long before they met, she attracted popular attention by marrying Simon Le Bon of the electronic pop/rock group Duran Duran during the height of their fame in 1985.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yasmin_Le_Bon   (136 words)

  
 Love Her Back To Life - SD-1.net: Alias Discussion
Le monde s’arrêta autour d’elle, et elle se trouva comme transportée dans une autre dimension, où tout tournait autour s’elle ; ou plutôt, elle se trouvait au beau milieu d’une tornade.
Le problème était qu’elle venait de se perdre entre un baiser censé éviter de la mettre en danger et le partage de son être le plus profond avec un homme qu’elle connaissait depuis à peine quatre jours.
Simon entrelaça les doigts de main dans les siens, et posa son autre main sur son épaule gauche.
www.sd-1.net /index.php?showtopic=31681&st=40   (9096 words)

  
 Simon Le Bon revisits accident race - PittsburghLIVE.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Le Bon, 46, piloted his 77-foot yacht, Drum, off the Isle of Wight Sunday, starting the 600-mile race with the same crew that was with him in 1985 when the boat capsized during bad weather and trapped them under the hull for 40 minutes.
Le Bon said he was excited to be back after 20 years and considered the Fastnet race to be "unfinished business," the Telegraph reported Monday.
Le Bon sold Drum to Scottish tycoon Arnold Clark after the accident and got it back on loan for the race, the Telegraph said.
www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/entertainment/s_361408.html   (252 words)

  
 Simon Le Bon to set sail again | This is London   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Simon Le Bon is to compete again in the yacht race which almost killed him 20 years ago.
Formerly owned by Le Bon, the boat is now the property of Scottish car magnate Arnold Clark, who has loaned it to the singer to compete in the race.
Le Bon and his team narrowly cheated death when Drum capsized in bad weather off the coast of Falmouth at the height of the band's popularity.
www.thisislondon.co.uk /showbiz/articles/18607827?source=Evening%20Standard   (186 words)

  
 Mirror.co.uk - News - All News Archive - SIMON LE BON ON FAMILY, MUSIC AND THE BRITS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Simon, 45, fell for the stunning supermodel, now 39, in 1985 when he saw her picture and "pursued her like a wolf".
For Le Bon and band members Nick Rhodes and Roger, Andy and John Taylor, it is "better than a lifetime achievement award".
Simon is now more likely to be seen running round Richmond Park with his kids than hanging around Bond Street praying to be snapped.
www.mirror.co.uk /news/allnews/content_objectid=13958186_method=full_siteid=50143_headline=-OUR-9-YEAR-OLD-COMES-HOME-IN-TEARS-BECAUSE-SHE-THINKS-WE-LL-SPLIT-UP-name_page.html   (829 words)

  
 Sky News: UK News, breaking news from around the UK.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The original line-up - Simon Le Bon, John Taylor, Roger Taylor, Andy Taylor and Nick Rhodes - were reunited for the comeback concert at the Forum in Kentish Town, north London.
Frontman Simon Le Bon, who turns 45 later this month, leapt around the stage with the energy of a man half his age.
Le Bon's model wife Yasmin was in the audience along with celebrities including Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, Mark Owen and Stephen Fry.
www.sky.com /skynews/article/0,,30100-12826210,00.html   (347 words)

  
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SIMON LE BON motions for one of the ROBOTS to move to the centre of the room, and he then turns the box to face it.
SIMON LE BON raises his hand to quell their fears and, once again, presses the button on the side of the box.
SIMON LE BON and his gang are nowhere to be seen.
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 BBC NEWS | Scotland | Le Bon to face yacht race demons
Le Bon, who owned the 77-ft boat during the height of his 1980s pop career, cheated death when it capsized off the Falmouth coast after being caught up in bad weather in the 1985 Fastnet race.
Speaking on the deck of Drum, Le Bon said: "We felt we ought to prove to ourselves that we could finish the race given a sound boat, which we've got now.
Le Bon saved a woman from Northern Ireland 18 years ago when he answered her Mayday call in the Atlantic Ocean.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/scotland/4552303.stm   (369 words)

  
 Simon Le Bon
Simon is the eldest of three brothers, coming from a showbiz background, his Grandmother was one of the original Tiller girls, his mothers aunt once danced before the Queen with the famous Ziegfeld Follies and his Grandfather was part of the respected Ernest Read Choir.
Simon used to fear demons when he was a child and used to protect himself by putting toy soldiers on his window sill, he also had an off white teddy bear with a stern expression called Shockermoler who wore an eye patch and had a saftey pin through his ear who was his best guard!
Simon's first performed with a punk band called Dog Days when he was 17, at one gig they were fourth on the bill and were not allowed to play on the stage, they had to play on the floor!
www.ibismay.com /DD/simonbio.htm   (665 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | UK | Northern Ireland | Rescued woman reunited with pop star   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Karen McCracken was rescued by Duran Duran's Simon Le Bon in his boat 'Drum' in the Atlantic Ocean.
Simon was on a yacht with his wife off the coast of Venezuela 17 years ago when he heard Karen's Mayday.
Simon was on a yacht with his wife off the coast of Venezuela
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/3609603.stm   (289 words)

  
 Sunday Mirror: INTERROGATION: Simon Le Bon - 'I think I'd enjoy having plastic
Simon Le Bon: It's tough to say because I have a great relationship with all of them.
SLB: I had one recently which read, 'I'd like to tell you your son is at university now.
SLB: I was flicking through a photographer's portfolio and saw an extremely beautiful girl looking back at me. She had a warm and honest smile which was just what I was looking for at the time.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_20040919/ai_n12906275   (1183 words)

  
 icTeesside - Simon Le Bon backs remake   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Simon Le Bon himself has heaped praise on boyband Phixx's cover version of the 1984 Duran Duran smash hit Wild Boys.
Chris, from Benton, Newcastle, one fifth of the group formed by rejects from the ITV show Popstars: The Rivals, revealed Le Bon had even dished out advice on how to make their version, which was released on Monday, sound even better.
Simon Le Bon heard what we were doing and got in touch.
icteesside.icnetwork.co.uk /0300entertainment/0500music/tm_objectid=14359146&method=full&siteid=50081&headline=simon-le-bon-backs-remake-name_page.html   (812 words)

  
 Simon LeBon/Celebrity Skin
Simon is usually a pretty physical "flirty" person with fans, friends, etc when he's not in one of his moods hence there's no real way to intrepret his actions by just seeing him say hello to someone, only he and Yas can (and of course, the someone).
Simon also spent the weekend in Spain because of the Formula One race in Barcelona and was seen celebrating in the Nou Camp stadium, Barcelona, after Man United won the European cup.
Pop star Simon Le Bon has admitted that before a pioneering eye operation he could not see his fans when he was on stage.
www.geocities.com /Hollywood/2578/SLB.html   (2412 words)

  
 Simon Le Bon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
For the girls at my school who were too cool to cover their study notice-boards with pictures of Simon Le Bon, this Neo-Classical calendar boy was the pin-up...
Galactic bassist Robert Mercurio and guitarist Jeff Raines team with jazz drummer Simon Lott and keyboardist Brian Coogan at Le Bon Temps Roule.
Meanwhile, the band can count Duran Duran's Simon Le Bon among their celebrity fans after they supported the legendary British pop act's European tour.
www.wikiverse.org /simon-le-bon   (921 words)

  
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 sail-world.com -- Simon Le Bon to give Fastnet another go   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Simon Le Bon, the lead singer of Duran Duran, a pop band at the height of its popularity in the 1980s, is about to announce plans to race the maxi yacht Drum once more — twenty years after surviving a capsize aboard the same yacht.
Le Bon was due reveal — at a press conference in Glasgow on Monday (16 May) — that he has entered the Rolex Fastnet Race — two decades after Drum lost her keel and capsized in the same race.
The 2005 event will reunite Le Bon with the original crew members from Drum for the first time since their fated voyage that finished with crew members sitting on the upturned hull waiting to be rescued.
www.sail-world.com /news.cfm?Nid=17356&RequestTimeOut=180   (317 words)

  
 Simon Le Bon - DeathList Forum
According to the Scotsman Simon Le Bon is again to participate in the Fastnet race.
Simon Le Bon has attack of common sense.
He's unarguably globally famous, relatively young, his passing would be massive news, and although I quite like SLB if he died in a yachting race it would go down as an all-time great death.
www.deathlist.net /forums/index.php?showtopic=1405   (436 words)

  
 The Ridiculous Life of Simon Le Bon
A decade and a half later, they remain married, kids in tow, despite regular tabloid claims that Le Bon’s belief in monogamy is purely theoretical.
Rhodes and Le Bon are doing better than that, but not much better.
Le Bon grins sheepishly, and holds up his hands as if a gun were suddenly drawn.
www.lizardkingduran.com /qsimon98.htm   (1803 words)

  
 Ananova - Simon and Yasmin Le Bon deny marriage rift
Simon and Yasmin Le Bon have spoken out to deny reports of a rift in their 18-year marriage.
Friends said that while Duran Duran's comeback tour had caused strain due to Le Bon's absence, they were happy and looking forward to their weekend wedding anniversary.
Simon, 45, returned to London at the end of last week after spending three months on tour.
www.ananova.com /entertainment/story/sm_849776.html   (175 words)

  
 eBay - simon le bon, Photographic Images, Magazine Back Issues items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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Simon Le Bon, John Taylor and Andy Taylor of Duran Duran
Simon Le Bon, John Taylor and Andy Taylor of Duran Duran The quintet received the outstanding contribution award and performed a medley of their hits.
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