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In 1982, music video director Russell Mulcahy, who had directed the band's first video, "Planet Earth", was brought back to make the music video for "Hungry Like the Wolf" and two other songs for the band's 1983 video album. [20] The band had a vision of jungles and exotic women, and Mulcahy suggested Sri Lanka, a country he had just visited. [5]
In November, [54] Capitol issued the remixed Rio and "Hungry Like the Wolf" single in the US, the latter charting at number three by Christmas. With the music videos garnering heavy airplay on MTV and nationwide chart success, marketing executives pushed radio DJs to refer to Duran Duran as "the Fab Five".
The first one had the "clean" or "day version" of "Girls on Film" alongside "Hungry Like The Wolf", while the other had the uncensored "night versions" of each. [1] In February 1984, the video album Duran Duran won a Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video, while Video 45 won the Best Short Form award.
MTV placed "Hungry Like the Wolf" and several other Duran Duran videos into heavy rotation, pushing the single and album into the US top twenty in early 1983. The ballad "Save a Prayer" also did well. [35] "The band was a natural for music television," noted Rolling Stone. "They may be the first rock group to ride in on a video wave."
Duran Duran Video 45 (or technically just Duran Duran, as Video 45 was the format) is a two-track video EP by Duran Duran. It was released in 1983 by PMI in the UK and Sony in the US. The release was originally intended to be like a video single, hence the Video 45 nomenclature. The EP was released in both the VHS and the Betamax format.
The music video shows Scherzinger performing in a pink dress in front of a crowd, with flowers appearing all around her as she sings on stage. [39] Of the cover, Duran Duran singer Simon Le Bon said, "When we were first approached about Nicole doing a version of 'Rio' for this campaign, we thought it was the perfect fit. She's exotic and ...
Wolf Alice — also comprised of guitarist Joff Oddie, bassist Theo Ellis and drummer Joel Amey — the band has been the opener for 17 of the European Love on Tour shows, which saw Styles travel ...
In 2001, Claudia Schiffer appeared in the music video for Westlife's cover version of "Uptown Girl". ... YouTube: 1982 "Hungry Like the Wolf" Duran Duran: YouTube [284]