Duran Duran’s Simon Le Bon: ‘I’ve always refused to play Glastonbury’
”A 21st-century rock and roll epitaph if ever there were one. But Le Bon and the lads have no plans to ease up. For now they are planning 2024, which will include appearances at festivals – although (appallingly!) not the only festival that matters: Glastonbury.
“I believe they have our telephone number, we haven’t changed it” quips Rhodes. Le Bon elaborates that they have been approached to play but the offer has never been quite right: “3pm in the Disco Tent isn’t really where we see ourselves.”
“A long time ago I vowed I would never set foot in Glastonbury unless it was on the Pyramid Stage at a decent hour of the night,” he says. “So although I’ve been asked to camp, to glamp and invited to fly in and out by helicopter, I’ve always refused on principle.”
It does seem to be a glaring omission, but the Rolling Stones, whose debut album came out in 1964, waited half a century to get the call, in 2013. All the same it would be an outrage if Duran Duran’s Wild Boys were kept waiting much longer.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/artists/duran-duran-simon-le-bon-interview-danse-macabre/