The band’s first new music of 2026 gets a late-night airing, backed by a long collaborative history.
Duran Duran performed “Free To Love” on a recent Jimmy Kimmel Live, turning the late-night stage into a disco-lit party with rainbow and unicorn visuals, backup singers, and Rodgers on guitar. The single, out earlier this month, is the band’s first new material of 2026—an uptempo track that picks up a thread they first pulled with Rodgers in 1984.
Rodgers’ remix of “The Reflex” pushed the band to their first Billboard Hot 100 number one, and the two have circled back to each other ever since. Keyboardist Nick Rhodes noted the enduring charge of their sessions: “Every time we plug in and play with Nile, the electricity he generates could light up a whole city.” The performance leaned into that history without nostalgia, keeping the focus on a groove that feels built for now.
The appearance doesn’t signal a larger album announcement yet, but it places “Free To Love” squarely in the lineage of a collaboration that has outlasted most pop cycles.
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