Duran Duran First Pop Group to Play the Louvre

PARIS—Eighties icons Duran Duran have become the first pop group to perform at the Louvre Museum in Paris, reports the BBC.

The concert, which took place in the famous pyramid designed by I. M. Pei, was organized to raise money to restore a Louis XV drawing room, to be featured in the museum's decorative arts gallery.

"It was a great honor for us to be asked to perform at this prestigious event in one of the most beautiful and historic buildings in Paris and for such a worthy cause to the arts," said the band's lead singer, Simon Le Bon.

Le Bon said he hoped the show had "put a smile on the Mona Lisa's face."