{"id":405178,"date":"2026-04-30T15:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T15:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/405178\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T15:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T15:27:07","slug":"duran-duran-and-nile-rodgers-bring-free-to-love-to-kimmel-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/405178\/","title":{"rendered":"Duran Duran and Nile Rodgers Bring &#8220;Free to Love&#8221; to Kimmel: Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/duran-duran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Duran Duran<\/a> stopped by\u00a0Jimmy Kimmel Live!\u00a0on Wednesday night perform their new song <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2026\/04\/duran-duran-nile-rodgers-new-song-free-to-love\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">\u201cFree to Love\u201d<\/a> alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/nile-rodgers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Nile Rodgers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With an empowering tone and a throwback sound lifted from Duran Duran and Rodgers\u2019 mid-\u201980s era, they gave a faithful and anthemic rendition of \u201cFree to Love.\u201d Vocalist Simon Le Bon was joined by a backing vocalist, but his booming voice alone remains expressive and earnest; Rodgers, meanwhile, vibed and sang to Le Bon as he played guitar, just looking happy to be there (Rodgers\u2019 usual demeanor). Behind the band, a display featuring rainbows, unicorns, and dancers was shown, reinforcing the song\u2019s themes of LGBTQ+ pride and being free to love beyond societal barriers. Watch their performance below.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stubhub.prf.hn\/click\/camref:1100l9Pt3\/pubref:duran-duran*free-to-love-kimmel-button\/destination:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.stubhub.com%2Fduran-duran-tickets%2Fperformer%2F8567\" class=\"button button-ticket\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Get Duran Duran Tickets Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Duran Duran revealed the collaborative track earlier this month as their first new music offering of the year; their last album was 2023\u2019s Halloween-themed\u00a0Danse Macabre.\u00a0The band will headline Redondo Beach, California\u2019s BeachLife Festival this weekend, followed by a brief Vegas residency and a European trek; get tickets to see Duran Duran <a href=\"https:\/\/stubhub.prf.hn\/l\/mVdg0lq\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Related Video<\/p>\n<p>Duran Duran 2026 Tour Dates:<br \/>05\/01 \u2013 Redondo Beach, CA @ BeachLife Festival<br \/>05\/02 \u2013 Las Vegas, NV @ Fontainebleau<br \/>05\/06 \u2013 Las Vegas, NV @ Fontainebleau<br \/>05\/08 \u2013 Las Vegas, NV @ Fontainebleau<br \/>05\/09 \u2013 Las Vegas, NV @ Fontainebleau<br \/>06\/19 \u2013 Kv\u00e6rndrup, DK @ Heartland Festival<br \/>06\/22 \u2013 Tilburg, NL @ Spoorpark<br \/>06\/24 \u2013 Praha 9, CZ @ O2 Arena<br \/>06\/26 \u2013 Stuttgart, DE @ Schleyerhalle<br \/>06\/28 \u2013 Budapest, HU @ Papp Arena<br \/>07\/01 \u2013 Sofia, BG @ Sofia Arena<br \/>07\/02 \u2013 Skopie, MK @ Arena Boris Trajkovski<br \/>07\/05 \u2013 London, UK @ BST Hyde Park<br \/>07\/07 \u2013 Verona, IT @ Arena di Verona<br \/>07\/09 \u2013 Caserta, IT @ La Reggia Di Caserta<br \/>07\/11 \u2013 Passariano, IT @ Villa Manin<br \/>07\/12 \u2013 Locarno, CH @ Piazza Grande<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Duran Duran stopped by\u00a0Jimmy Kimmel Live!\u00a0on Wednesday night perform their new song \u201cFree to Love\u201d alongside Nile Rodgers.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-405178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}