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Rio is the second studio album by the English pop rock band Duran Duran, released on 10 May 1982 through EMI.Produced by Colin Thurston, the band wrote and demoed most of the material before recording the album at AIR Studios in London from January to March 1982.
As of October 2021, "Rio" is the third most streamed Duran Duran song in the UK. [ 7 ] "Rio" was released as the third single from the album in Australia, and debuted on the Kent Music Report top 100 singles chart dated 6 September 1982. [ 8 ]
(Duran Duran's Rio T-Shirt) In the 2007 animated series Xavier: Renegade Angel, a character refers to Patrick Nagel's death during the time-travel sequence of the episode "World of Hurt, BC". In the 2011 American Dad! episode "Fart-Break Hotel", teenager Steve travels back in time after being enamoured by a Nagel painting. Steve discovers that ...
Music journalists have come around to Duran Duran, obviously — along with the Class of 2022 Rock Hall honor and esteemed writer Annie Zaleski's 33 1/3 book about Rio's legacy, the band's 15th ...
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Duran Duran (/ dj ʊ ˌ r æ n dj ʊ ˈ r æ n /) are an English pop rock band formed in Birmingham in 1978 by singer Stephen Duffy, keyboardist Nick Rhodes and guitarist/bassist John Taylor. After several early changes, the band's line-up settled in May 1980 as Rhodes, Taylor, singer Simon Le Bon , guitarist Andy Taylor and drummer Roger Taylor .
He also wrote that the song "provided a stylish finale for the group's successful Rio album". [11] The A.V. Club 's Stephen Erlewine described the song as a standout from Rio and ranked it the sixth-best song from Duran Duran's catalogue. [9] Gold Derby called the song "poetry and sex put to music, hypnotic and beautiful". [10]
Was there ever any album that embodied all things grand and glamorous about the escapist, excessive, exotic, erotic, aspirational ’80s more than Duran Duran’s 'Rio'?