He may no longer take part in the round-the-world regattas, but the ocean is still very important to him. Simon is increasingly thinking about the ecology of the oceans, which confirms his status as an ambassador for the Blue Marine Foundation, a non-governmental organization that seeks to stop the fishing and biodiversity decline. He's 60 now, and not long ago Le Bon and his wife got grandchildren. Though sprung from punk, Duran Duran’s embrace of MTV boy band glamour was never going to fly with the cred police. Yeah, they definitely got to me at times, he admits. Le Bon had to agree, and Drum came in third. Singer Simon Le Bon calls his critics the Cool Nazis. It was awful, and I still haven't left." He said to me, "Simon, England is counting on you!"» «I said: "Skip, I don't think I can pull. Then he got a call from his American captain Skip Novak, who said that the organizers of Round the World were ready to postpone the race for a month until Drum was cleaned up. «You know that after a rescue»," he added in an interview with CNN Online in October, describing how the disaster affected him.Īnd although the singer agreed to participate in the 1985/86 Whitbread round-the-world regatta, he had his doubts. «It was very scary»," said Le Bon, who was asleep at the time of the crash.
The hero was the diver of the Royal Naval Squadron, who had to dive under the yacht several times. The nearest boat immediately sounded the alarm, but the boat crew had to wait about 40 minutes before they were rescued. He is best known as the lead vocalist and lyricist of the new wave band. Simon felt at home sitting on the stem of Eilean's wooden ketch. Simon John Charles Le Bon is an English singer. The famous Rio video was decided to be filmed in Antigua. At the age of 14, Le Bon joined a sailing club, but he became fond of music and yachting gradually fell into the background.Īt the height of his career the musician returned to his passion for sailing. Simon Le Bon said Duran Duran weren’t all friends when they formed but that he was lucky to be a member rather than a solo artist because of the groups grounding nature. Though sprung from punk, Duran Duran’s embrace of MTV boy band glamour was.
He often took it on small journeys and gave the future star the first lessons of sailboat management. Singer Simon Le Bon calls his critics the Cool Nazis. There he met a local priest who had a small wooden sailing boat.
I know Pool Harbor»very well," Le Bon said. 21:13, Bookmark Simon Le Bon fans claim this picture of the star with bandmate Nick Rhodes proves he is innocent of groping allegations. «For ten years in a row, every summer, every Easter and vacation, every weekend from May to October, I visited my grandmother with my whole family. The future singer was only six years old and the house at the port of Pul Harbour had a young imagination: there were many yacht clubs and the population consisted of sailors of all ages. In 1965 his grandmother moved to the south coast of England, and that changed everything. Simon grew up in Pinner, a town in north-west London.
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