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Duran Duran at The O2 Arena in London, 2023. Duran Duran are an English pop rock band who have recorded over 200 songs during their career. Since their formation in 1978, Duran Duran have credited all of their songs to all members evenly, apart from covers. [1] They emerged as members of the New Romantic scene with their debut album Duran Duran ...
Duran Duran have sold over 100 million records. [1] The band have achieved UK top-five albums in five consecutive decades (1980s to 2020s), and US top-10 albums in three decades (1980s, 1990s and 2010s).
Duran Duran Studio album by Duran Duran Released 15 June 1981 (1981-06-15) Recorded December 1980 – January 1981 Studio Red Bus and Utopia (London) Chipping Norton (Oxfordshire) Genre Synth-pop new wave Length 39: 42 Label EMI Producer Colin Thurston Duran Duran chronology Duran Duran (1981) Rio (1982) 1983 US reissue Singles from Duran Duran "Planet Earth" Released: 2 February 1981 ...
As a follow-up to the Christmas 1984 Band Aid single, Duran Duran performed in front of 90,000 people (and an estimated 1.5 billion TV viewers) at the Live Aid charity concert at John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 13 July 1985 while their Bond song held the top spot on the American charts. It was not intended to be a ...
Both the band and EMI had ambitious plans for promotion and devised the release of a full-length video album consisting of the best songs from both Duran Duran (1981) and Rio. [11] [37] Le Bon had declared the medium's importance in an interview with Smash Hits earlier in the year, stating, "I take video very seriously. I see it as an artform.
"Girls on Film" is the third single by the English new wave band Duran Duran, released on 13 July 1981. It became Duran Duran's first top 10 hit on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at number 5 in July 1981, and an international hit reaching the top 20 in several countries, including number 1 in Portugal, number 4 in New Zealand and number 11 in Australia.
The song was the fourth and final single lifted from the band's second studio album of the same name and was edited for its release. It was issued worldwide in October 1982 and became a Top 10 hit in the UK Singles Chart, peaking at number 9 on 11 December 1982. [6] As of October 2021, "Rio" is the third most streamed Duran Duran song in the UK ...
"The Wild Boys" is the twelfth single by the English pop rock band Duran Duran, released on 22 October 1984 in the United Kingdom. The song was the only studio track on the band's live album Arena (1984), and was produced by Nile Rodgers, who had previously remixed the band's previous single "The Reflex". It was recorded at the end of July 1984 ...