November 24 | duranasty.com analyse some post-Red Carpet Massacre interviews to find out who might be the female vocalist on Duran Duran's 'The Man Who Stole A Leopard'.

Maybe we don't have to look too far to find out the answers to the question as we might get it just reading some Duran Duran interviews done in the latest couple of years. So while waiting an official announcement about the super special female guest vocal on 'Leopard' done last week in Los Angeles, we have time to make hypothesis based on Duran Duran's own words.

I'm sure Duran Duran will probably SURPRISE us with a totally unexpected name, so no one of the names mentioned here... but there might be also a tiny chance that the special female vocal is someone anticipated in these interviews... so check it out!

Hypothesis 1 | So here we go, candidate n°1, Gwen Stefani who was supposed to collaborate with the band on Lonely Business, an unreleased track from the 2003/04 Astronaut sessions. The collaboration never happened and we assume that the female vocalist on this demo [right click, save traget as] might be the touring backup singer or any other backing vocalist used during the recoding sessions. Not sure why it never happened.

Fact: No Doubt entered the studio in May 2010 to start recording on their sixth studio album. Gwen stated publicly that she wanted to complete the nine-song project by December 2010, the band is currently recording in Los Angeles so this might be a possibilty for Duran.

In the main picture Gwen and the guys at the Brits Awards february 2004, on the right with Simon backstage at the Roxy in New York in 2003.

Hypothesis 2 | On the Daily Record from july 3 2009, there was an article by Rick Fulton titled 'Simon aims for Amy duet' | Duran Duran legend Simon Le Bon wants to duet with Amy Winehouse, but won’t ask her pal Mark Ronson.

That would be a bit embarrassing,” he says. “I’m Simon f****** Le Bon from Duran Duran, I don’t need to be asking about any other artists do I?” he adds, deadpan, before giggling. He’s not being an Eighties diva. In honesty, Simon is a big fan of Amy and it would make perfect sense now award-winning that Brit producer Mark is recording Duran Duran’s 13th studio album and planning to make it their best since 1982’s Rio.

A Winehouse collaboration would be certainly a coup. Simon, said: “I’d love to do a duet. I don’t know if that’s up her street. Don’t know if she has even heard of the band. I haven’t met her but I’m a very, very big fan.”

Fact: Amy Winehouse and Mark Ronson have had their ups and downs: on september 18, Amy Winehouse took to her Twitter to blast super producer Mark Ronson after he appeared on the ‘Later... With Jools Holland’ show and claimed he “created the tracks” for Amy’s Back To Black album from her early demo’s. After the show an angry Amy wrote, during a 5am rant: “Ronson you’re dead to me; one album I write an you take half the credit – make a career out of it? Don’t think so BRUV” – POW!"

Fact: There might be no love between these two anymore... sad!