Pop star Justin Timberlake has confirmed that he’ll lend a hand writing and producing the new album by aging pop stars Duran Duran.

It’s a positive development for the band after they lost founding guitarist Andy Taylor, who left the group in October.

“We’ve got some good stuff happening here,” Duran Druan front-man Simon LeBon told the CBC of their collaboration with Timberlake. “We are in a very good space.”

Also working with the band on their new album is producer Timbaland.

“We’ve done three tracks with Timbaland,” said LeBon. “We’ve collaborated in a writing and production manner on one of those tracks with Justin Timberlake.”

No release date has been set for the record, which will be the band’s first studio LP since 2004’s “Astronaut.”






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