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‘I’d love to be a kung fu master like Bruce Lee. I did it for ten years and got pretty good but I never had the six-pack – just a one-pack!’

sunset on Palm Island in the Grenadines. definite I’d end the day dining with the girls at the Faviken Magasinet restaurant in Sweden. I’d order whatever the chef rec- ommended with a bottle of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti La Tache red wine. article The happiest moment you will cherish forever... The band getting the MTV We ask a celebrity a set of devilishly VMA Lifetime Achievement Award in probing questions – and only accept New York in 2003. It meant so much. The saddest time that shook your THE definitive answer. This week: world... When Yasmin’s mum Patricia died in 2001 from cancer aged just 60. Duran Duran singer Simon Le Bon To see the family so sad was awful. The unfulfilled ambition that continues The prized possession you value above The pet hate that makes to haunt you... To be a kung fu master all others... I’m not that materialistic but I your hackles rise... I can’t like Bruce Lee. I did it for ten years and adore my Riva speedboat. I bought her in stand bullies at work, or in rela- got pretty good, but I never got the six- 1984 and she’s my only ‘rock star’ indul- tionships, who force people to do pack. It was only ever a one-pack! gence. I love the pleasure she gives others. things they don’t want to do. I’m

not violent but bullies make me The piece of wisdom that The event that altered the course of The philosophy that underpins your The biggest regret you wish you could so angry I want to punch them. you would pass on to a your life and character... Auditioning for life... Never complain, never explain amend... I wish I’d shown more gratitude child... Don’t be fright- Duran Duran in 1980 when I was study- – and always mix your drinks! to my old choirmaster Michael Turvey The person who has influenced ened. When you’re nerv- ing drama at Birmingham University. and the Pinner Parish Church choir when The order of service at your funeral... I you most... My mum Ann. She ous it’s only adrenaline The lads needed a lead singer and we I wrote the sleeve notes to an album they want a huge choir to sing Fauré’s Req- was an opera singer and I’m eter- you’re feeling, and it’s just clicked. That day changed my life. made in the 80s. I sang in that choir as a uiem, followed by the song 2000 nally grateful to her for making preparing you to do some- kid and it did so much for me. music part of my life. She put a radio The song that means most to you... Blacks Got To Be Free by Fela Aniku- thing extraordinary. Come Undone. It’s cheesy to choose one lapo Kuti & Roy Ayers. The drama The temptation you wish you in my bedroom when I was tiny and I of mine, but I wrote it for Yasmin [his queen in me wants my body pushed could resist... Throwing myself used to sleep to classical music. She’s The figure from history for whom wife, model Yasmin Le Bon] on her 28th out in a boat on a Norwegian fjord into supporting the England 80 now and lives in a house at the you’d most like to buy a pie and a . Mahatma Gandhi. I’d like to birthday in 1992 and it means a lot to me then set alight – Viking-style! rugby team and Man Utd. I’d end of our garden in London. pint.. know how he found the strength to go because it just says, ‘I love you darling’. avoid a lot of disappoint- The way you want to be remembered... The film you can watch time and on hunger strike and to keep fighting ment if I held back a bit. The way you would spend your fantasy For making music that brought happi- time again... La Dolce Vita. Anita for what he believed in. 24 hours, with no travel restrictions... ness to people. The book that holds an Ekberg is so beautiful, she’s like an I’d begin the day floating over the rings everlasting resonance... ice cream with cherries on top! The unlikely interest that engages The Plug... Duran Duran’s UK tour

of Saturn while eating porridge followed Pho The Hobbit. My teacher your curiosity... I’m really into history, continues until 12 December and their

The treasured item you lost and by scrambled eggs with fried tomatoes. t Miss Bateman read it to my particularly the Dark Ages and the 100 new album Paper Gods is on Warner ogra wish you could have again... I’d then go for a swim at the Grand Hotel class when I was nine and Years War. It’s all such a mystery. Music. Visit duranduran.com.n p A biker jacket that was Quisisana on Capri, followed by a big s hs: it took my breath away. As told to Rob McGibbon nicked when I was The unending quest that drives you Italian lunch overlooking t e p The priority activity if playing with Iggy on... Making music. It’s still a thrill. the sea with Yasmin and our han i you were the Invisible Pop in New York girls – Amber, 26, Saffron, e pi

The poem that touches your soul... s

Man for a day... I’d listen in 1987. I’d left 24, and Tallulah, 21. I’d t e

Singh Song by Daljit Nagra, about a l to a bunch of five-year- it with a fan, have a few glasses of Alteni , a young Indian man working in his ll s olds talking. It would who vanished. di Brassica white wine, t father’s corner shop, is so original in shu ar, be so entertaining. She k nows then I’d go sailing around the way it talks about love.

who she is the Cyclades islands in tt Right: Anita Ekberg in and I’d like it The misapprehension about yourself Greece. I’d squeeze in a bit ers

La Dolce Vita. Above t o right: a Dark ’n’ Stormy back – with you wish you could erase... I haven’t a of skiing in New Zealand ck cocktail: Far right: Paros the £500 that clue, but don’t care because I’m not both- before having a Dark ’n’ , ge tt in Greece’s Cyclades was in the pocket! ered by what people think about me! Stormy rum cocktail at y Next week PS... l Meet the man who’s been the Angelina Jolie stars in romantic drama By The Sea with husband Queen’s official TV cameraman for l Brad Pitt – in cinemas from Friday. Guys And Dolls comes to 18 years Tom Kerridge serves up a fuss-free Christmas lunch London’s Savoy Theatre from Thursday. And Def Leppard l Monty Don on how to make the most of your Christmas kick off a UK tour with Whitesnake in Belfast on Monday tree l Britain’s best TV listings

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