What is meeting Duran Duran worth?
When you work for a resort in Vegas, people will pitch all sorts of barter to get special treatment or access.
On Friday afternoon I got a call from a representative of the Hard Rock. She wanted to share a story about the oddest trade she has yet to be offered for a show happening that night.
It seems the teen girls who grew up with Duran Duran posters on the wall are now adult women with careers and childhood crushes that have yet to fully evaporate. On Friday night Duran Duran was set to play the Hard Rock, and one Duran Duran fan from the '80s reached out to the Hard Rock. She is now a prominent plastic surgeon and her offer: In exchange for meeting the band, the Hard Rock's representative could have a free work. "She said I could have anything like Botox." The twentysomething Hard Rock representative declined the offer. Of course, with Duran Duran, the surgeon may not have been a fan so much as looking to get its business.
Also, coming out that night to support the old new wavers were new new wavers Brandon Flowers and Dave Keuning, from local hit makers the Killers, who joined Duran Duran for "Planet Earth."
(Photo courtesy of Hard Rock)


