The band, now comprising Le Bon, Nick Rhodes (keys), John Taylor (bass), Roger Taylor (drums), were arguably the most popular band on the planet in the first half of the ‘80s, thanks to a string of hits including “The Reflex,” “Save a Prayer,” “Hungry Like The Wolf” and the James Bond theme, “A View to a Kill,” all of which were turbo-powered by music videos that towered above others from that period, and coincided with the dawn of MTV. It wouldn’t be the first time Duran Duran changed the game with music video.
“Invisible” arrives with a cutting-edge clip created by an Artificial Intelligence dubbed Huxley. Le Bon highlines one lyric from it, “And the voiceless crowd ain’t backing down.” In the light of COVID-19 and “everything that’s been going on in the last year and a half really, with all the different public movements and all the noise people have been making,” he continues, “it suddenly sounded relevant in a much bigger way.” The song’s arc started out as “a slightly disfunctional relationship,” he notes, where the person who never gets a word in figures… “maybe I’m just invisible.”