Ageing pop stars and growing money on NFTrees

Ageing pop stars and growing money on NFTrees
UK band Duran Duran has climbed on the NFT bandwagon. (Image: Getty)
Peter Griffin
One of the biggest eighties bands that passed me by was Duran Duran.Apart from the soaring guitar solo in Ordinary Way, a song that was on high rotation in my house when I was a kid, I was no real fan of their glam look and polished pop hits. But you have to give credit to the British four-piece which has sold over 100 million albums. Duran Duran is still a going concern with most of its original members recording and touring decades later. The band has even climbed on the non-fungible token (NFT) bandwagon. With the release of Invisible,...

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