This year, the show comes accompanied by a new album, Free to Love: Hot Star Remixes. It’s a collection of remakes of Free to Love, a single the band released in April, by the likes of Trixie Matel, Horse Meat Disco and DJ White Shadow. The original funk-pop song stemmed from a Nile Rodgers riff left over from the Danse Macabre sessions. “We had this little riff,” Le Bon explains. “It’s got this very simple, could-be-played-on-a-thumb-piano kind of vibe to it. I was a little daunted when it was suggested we bring it up to a Duran Duran song standard because it was so tiny, it was such a small little box. Sometimes, if you’re a melody writer, it can seem like a prison cell, a little piece of music. But it’s a Nile Rodgers riff, it’s got incredible value just because of that, to us.”
