BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS
Full Name: Warren Bruce Cuccurullo
Description: Guitarist, Electric Sitarist, USA
Known For: Longterm member of – Duran Duran
Instruments: Guitar
Music Styles: Alternative rock, Electronica, Synth-pop
Location: Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia
Date Born: 8th December 1956
Location Born: Brooklyn, United States of America
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BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE
Warren Cuccurullo
An American rock musician who has worked with Frank Zappa, been a longterm member of Duran Duran, and was a founding member of Missing Persons.
He also has some notoriety in the porn industry after making nude appearances in a magazine and self-released films for a few years in the early 2000s. Most recently, he has gained attention for being a 911 Truth activist.
In his teen years, Cuccurullo became a devoted fan of Frank Zappa and began traveling to every show within 500 miles of his Brooklyn home.
During the mid-1970s, he befriended several members of Zappa’s band, including Terry Bozzio and Patrick O’Hearn.
Over the next three years, he appeared with the band on stage at a couple of shows as well as in the 1979 Zappa film Baby Snakes filmed October, 1977. He impressed Frank Zappa by knowing the guitar parts to every Zappa song.
In December 1978, at the age of 22, Cuccurullo was invited to audition as a guitarist for Zappa’s new road band, in which many members were replaced (including Bozzio and O’Hearn).
Zappa asked Cuccurullo to play on his 1988 tour, but the latter’s involvement with Duran Duran had begun by then and so he declined.
In 1980, Cuccurullo and the two Bozzios formed Missing Persons, added Patrick O’Hearn and Chuck Wild, recorded a 4-song EP called Missing Persons, toured, promoted the EP, and appeared in the movie Lunch Wagon.
As Missing Persons fell apart, Bozzio and O’Hearn were approached by Duran guitarist Andy Taylor in Los Angeles for work on a solo album.
In this way, Cuccurullo learned that Taylor did not intend to rejoin Duran in England to work on their next album, even before the rest of Duran Duran knew. Cuccurullo sent a tape and a request for an audition, but was turned down.
Duran Duran hired Cuccurullo as a session guitarist to complete the album Notorious. He went on to tour with the band, and returned to contribute his increasingly experimental guitar work to the album Big Thing. At the end of the grueling ten-month Big Thing world tour (in June 1989), Cuccurullo was made an official member of the band, and moved to London.
Tentative plans for a Missing Persons reunion in 1994 were shelved over remaining tensions between former band members.
Cuccurullo and Rhodes continued to hold Duran Duran together during the band’s lean times in the 1990s.
In early 2001, Cuccurullo was asked to leave the band so that the original members of Duran Duran could reunite. At first the split was amicable, hinging on a financial settlement which granted him compensation from the band’s forthcoming reunion album.
Cuccurullo was largely responsible for Duran Duran’s change of image. The band had once been regarded solely as a pop band; however, Cuccurullo helped to move them into a more serious image, and helped to create some very powerful alternative rock and synth-pop.
For many years Cuccurullo was a vegan, and also shunned alcohol, tobacco, drugs, and sugar. Cuccurullo was very health-conscious, taking extremely good care of his body, and encouraging others to do so as well.
In mid-2002, Warren purchased a Santa Monica, California, Italian restaurant called Via Veneto. It has become a Los Angeles-area hotspot and a favorite with celebrities.
In September 2007, the Warren Cuccurullo Band took part in a concert event in New York City, supporting the 9/11 Truth group WeAreCHANGE.
Solo albums include.
Thanks to Frank (1995)
Machine Language (1997)
Roadrage (1998)
The Blue (2000)
Trance Formed (2003)
Playing in Tongues (2009)