Duran Duran releases their most recent album, Red Carpet Massacre, on vinyl in a special, limited edition, numbered package. All copies sell out within a few days.

The band records in-depth interviews for the forthcoming Sky Arts Songbook show, filmed in HD.

On January 28th, Duran Duran film Sky Arts Songbook before a studio audience at the Hospital in London. They perform some lesser-known songs such as “Late Bar,” and are joined by violinist Martha Brown on “Do You Believe in Shame”.

The band returns to the Studio on February 2nd -13th to commence writing for the first time since the recording of Red Carpet Massacre.

Nick and Katy add an audio component to their annual February Oscar Picks with an “All-Academy-Awards” Katy’s Kafe.

Duran Duran contributes an exclusive live performance of their classic Bond theme, “A View to A Kill,” arranged by and performed with Mark Ronson, as a bonus track on the War Child Heroes charity CD compilation.

Simon appears on the BBC 2 programme High Altitude, where he and his brother Jonathan learn to ice-sail in northern Sweden.

In March, Roger and his DJ partner, Jake Fonique, return to the US to DJ at Cielo in New York City, as well as at Gryphon at the Hard Rock Casino in Hollywood, FL.

John participates in the Tap Water Project via Unicef to raise awareness for the world water crisis.

On February 27- March 3rd Nick and Snake Newton mix the Sky Songbook show in surround sound at Sphere studios London.

Roger offers a drum lesson for the great Ormond Street Hospital charity auction; the auction is won by a young fan named Chloe who spent an hour in the studio getting a lesson from Roger.

Duran Duran is announced as the headliners for the Lovebox Weekender Festival in Victoria Park. Other artists include N.E.R.D, Florence and the Machine, Groove Armada and Ladyhawke.

Duran Duran reveals a few summer dates in the US:

July 5th at the Marymoor Amphitheatre in Redmond

WA, July 7th at the Fillmore in San Francisco

July 8th at the Mountain Winery in Saratoga

CA, July 10th at the Pearl in Las Vegas

July 11th at The Pacific Amphitheatre in Orange County

From March 18th-26th, the band work in the Studio with Producer Mark Ronson who texts Rolling Stone magazine that the sessions are “fucking awesome!” Kaiser Chiefs drummer Nick Hodgson joins them for some songwriting.

In May, Simon crews on the yacht RIO during Antigua Sailing Week and was part of the team that won The Lord Nelson Trophy for first place.

The band returns to the studio to do more tracking with Mark Ronson from May 11th- June 1st, they work at both Eastcote and Sphere in London.

Duran Duran performs in St. Petersburg at the Palace Square. Pop singer Anastacia opens the show.

Mark Ronson appears onstage and performs with Duran Duran at their Edinburgh Castle show and their Lovebox Festival headlining gig. The band comprises a brass section and a string section who feature on some of the medleys in the show. One specifically mashing “Girls On Film” together with “La Freak” by Chic, this was discovered by the band on YouTube and re-appropriated for these performances, as far as we know, the first time this has happened. The shows were also noted as the first in which the band ever used lasers in their production.

Nick exhibits two of his artworks as part of the DNA Exhibit celebrating the influence of John Foxx’s music at the Horse Hospital in London.

The crew of the space shuttle Endeavor listens to Duran Duran’s “Reach Up for the Sunrise” on their last day in space.

EMI enthusiastically release the Deluxe Rio re-issue, including previously unheard demos, the Live from Hammersmith 82! DVD and Rio re-issue on vinyl.

Mark Ronson surprises listeners to his East Village Radio podcast by playing a snippet of a new Duran Duran song.

Simon joins Mark Ronson onstage at the Concert for Care at the Brixton Academy; they perform “Planet Earth.”

John appears at a symposium on “40 years of the Internet” at UCLA’s School of Engineering, giving a much-lauded keynote speech.

John participates with Toohey’s Extra Dry to offer an Australian band the chance of a lifetime – to work on a record with Mark Ronson, Santigold, Nick Hodgson of the Kaiser Chiefs, Sean Lennon and John. Mark Ronson chooses the winner, who then flies to New York to work with the aforementioned artists.

In December, EMI releases a digital-download-only BBC concert featuring Duran Duran at the Hammersmith Odeon, recorded November 4, 1982.

EMI announces several Duran Duran CD re-issues for 2010 including Duran Duran, Seven and the Ragged Tiger, and Arcadia’s So Red the Rose.