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5* Album Reviews
From the debut album to Future Past!
The story of Duran Duran through their music. A new retrospective review of every album written by the Cherry Lipstick team.
Plus Arcadia review and more!

The Simon le Bon Diaries

Newly discovered, here is the 'true' story of Duran Duran.

RE-IMAGINED DURAN ALBUMS

Take a good album, and make it better

Volume 3 Fanzines

Our online and print fanzines created since 2017

Volume 3: 2017-2022

Lost Treasures... Forgotten Horrors...

The songs you've forgotten - both good and bad.

Concert Reviews

Re-live shows from all the years.

Back Issues 1993-2001

All issues from 1993 - 2001 are available for digital download from the CL Store (link above)

Read where it all began.

Plus: The best of those issues

Volume 1 : 1993-1994

Volume 2: 1997-2001

The Best Of 1993-2001

EARLY DURAN 1972-1980

Our amazing 44-page fanzine tells the story of the band in their own words.

The Cherry Lipstick Fans' Poll

Past Poll Winners

Around the World in 40 Shows

Showcasing 40 special concerts from Duran's career

The Power Station

The whole story - in their own words

Meet Ivorian Doll

We now know that the track Hammerhead on Future Past will feature the British rapper Ivorian Doll. Let’s get to know her and the scene she comes from. A couple of years ago Ivorian Doll was going by her real name, Vanessa. She had a You Tube channel with her mate Renee. She was doing make up, vlogging and the usual stuff, and had a following of people who liked that sort of stuff. People heard of them when there was a falling out, possibly because someone slept with someone,

Kenny Boon

Aug 12, 2021

More Joy - snap review

“Duran Duran are awesomely clever.” So said Smash Hits on the release of Skin Trade in February 1987, referencing the leap made from the sound of Notorious. Here we are 34 years later, and they are it again, confounding expectations and developing their sound and legacy with More Joy. Late last night (Wednesday 4th August), your Cherry Lipstick team gathered again to consider the latest release from Future Past. None of us knew what the other thought of More Joy before we sta

AW / Ben Rawson-Jones / Ruth Galvin / CK Shortell

Aug 5, 2021

Give It All Up - snap review

Back in May the release of the new Duran Duran song (INVISIBLE) led to Cherry Lipstick producing a whole 32-page fanzine. This time, you...

AW / Ruth Galvin / CK Shortell

Jul 10, 2021

Credits:
Website design: J.R. Kiss (2017)
Volume 3 'Lipstick' design: Inessa Wilson (2017)
'Cherry Lipstick' logo words: Anita Eve Perez (2017)
'Cherry Lipstick mood board' for Fanzine Week 3; and print fanzine covers for Vol 3 Issues 10, 11, 13 and 15: The Paper Goddess (2018 - 2022)
Volume 1 and 2 'Cherry Lipstick' logo: Marina McCall (1994)
Mobile app design: AW (2023)

Cherry Lipstick has a long history of ending. It stopped for the first time in 1994, then started again in 1997, then stopped again in 2001. This website (which started in 2017) was only meant to last one year. And yet here we are. Then CL was planned close at the end of 2020 when the review of Rio was completed and the fanzine was sent out. A key driver was to end Cherry Lipstick before the new album came out. I had no wish to oversee a fan social media site about an album I did not enjoy - the spectre of Paper Gods II was worrying to me, Whilst the first incarnation of CL had been pretty gung ho, I have wanted this series to be more upbeat and celebratory. Hey, we all grow up. But then the unseen photo issue was planned and gave a new lease of life to things in things in to2021, by which time Invisible was so good it all carried on a bit longer. Then there was a plan to end it in 2022 because there wasn't going to be a new album for ages, and it DEFINATELY going to end in January 2023 because the website had not been renewed. I felt like I had run out of things to say a, and with Future Past being a complete triumph, it seemed like a good time to drop out. But I got talked into renewing the website for another year, and the shows were fantastic, and then Andy is coming back, and now here we are in August 2023. Anyway, as i have said on a near monthly basis since April 1994, Cherry Lipstick is ending next year. Definately. AW / 27.8.2023.