Reportage (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Reportage
Type = studio
Artist = Duran Duran


Released = Unreleased
Recorded = September 2005 - May 2006 in London, England
Genre = Rock, New Wave Indie
Length =
Label = Epic
Producer = Michael Patterson [ [http://www.rollingstone.com/news/inbrief/story/10278385/duran_duran_kanye_pharrell_and_more "Forget Rio: Duran Duran Head to NOLA"] Rolling Stone, May 9, 2006]
Reviews =
Last album = "Astronaut"
(2004)
This album = "Reportage"
(2006)
Next album = "Red Carpet Massacre"
(2007)

"Reportage" is the provisional title of an album that the British band Duran Duran wrote and recorded as successor to their 2004 album Astronaut. The album was completed by May 2006 and contained 14 tracks. Duran Duran's label thought the album needed more, and so Timbaland, who has met the band on a couple of occassions was brought in to help. However, guitarist Andy Taylor left because of the label's decision on the album, as well as the new direction taken with Timbaland, and later Justin Timberlake. Duran Duran eventually decided to scrap the whole album and take their sound in a different direction.

The band went on to record an entirely new album titled "Red Carpet Massacre", released November 19 2007.

"Reportage" was never released. No recordings are known to have leaked. Fans hope one day the album gets released.

Known song titles

* Criminals in the Capitals
* Under the Wire
* Traumatised [ [http://www.duranitaly.com/corsport.htm Duran Duran new album "Gloss"] Corriere dello sport stadio, June 1, 2006]
* Judy, Where Are You
* 48 Hours Later
* Transcendal Mental
* Nobody

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