DURAN DURAN PLAYS ZAGREB FOR THE FIRST TIME

ZAGREB, Jan 29 (Hina) - British pop group Duran Duran played Zagreb's Sports Hall on Sunday evening, their first ever concert in Croatia. One of the most popular groups of the 1980s, Duran Duran played Zagreb as part of a tour of cities in Southeast and East Europe they never visited before and which they have called their eastern European vacation. The Zagreb concert was the only live appearance in this part of Europe, drawing fans from Slovenia, Italy, Austria, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The pop trio mostly played a greatest hits set of songs, including early 1980s smashes Rio, Hungry Like the Wolf, and Planet Earth, the early 1990s comeback singles Ordinary World and Come Undone, as well as songs from their latest, 12th album Pop Trash. Commenting on reports in some Croatian media to the effect that they had come to Zagreb too late, long after ruling the top of the world's charts, singer Simon Le Bon said the journalists probably said that for want of something more mean. Le Bon denied that their tour was an 1980s revival because, he stressed, Duran Duran never stopped releasing albums and playing live. Besides record sales in excess of 60 million and 45,000 pages on the Internet, the group's popularity seems not to have waned even after two decades, as seen by the warm reception of the Zagreb audience. One girl took off her brassiere during Girls on Film, the 1982 hit with the infamous video. (hina) ha