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The B-side of the single was a version of the Velvet Underground's song "Femme Fatale", previously available in 1993, on Duran Duran's Wedding Album. [10] Lou Reed said on the electronic press kit that accompanied the album that Duran Duran's version of "Perfect Day" was "the best cover ever completed of one of my own songs". [11]
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).
[19] [20] Duran Duran remerged in 1993 with Duran Duran (The Wedding Album), a 1990s-style dance-pop record [21] containing songs such as "Ordinary World", "Come Undone" and "Too Much Information". [ 22 ] [ 23 ] It was followed by Thank You (1995), a covers album featuring renditions of songs by artists such as Bob Dylan , Melle Mel and Public ...
A cover version of "Perfect Day" was the first single from the Duran Duran covers album Thank You (1995). It was released in the United Kingdom on March 13, 1995 by EMI and Capitol Records, and reached number 28 on the UK Singles Chart the same month. [27] [28] The cover was also released to US radio on May 23, 1995. [29]
Duran Duran was released two months later on 15 February 1993. Its already successful lead single propelled it high onto the UK Albums Chart, debuting at number four. The album would not appear on the US Billboard 200 until the week of 13 March, where it debuted at number seven. [22]
Duran Duran premiered the video for its cover of David Bowie’s “Five Years” this morning on the band’s YouTube channel. The song was released Jan. 8, on what would have been the iconic ...
In 1993, the band released a second self-titled album: this Duran Duran album is known as The Wedding Album (for Nick Egan's cover art featuring the wedding photos of the band members' parents) to distinguish it from the 1981 release, and was produced and recorded with John Jones.
Duffy also recorded a non-stop forty-minute early chill-out / house album in 1986 called Designer Beatnik with Roger Freeman of Pigbag, released under the name Dr. Calculus mdma. The cover photo shows the "Spirit of Ecstasy" Rolls-Royce car mascot and the album's two singles were "Programme 7" and "Perfume from Spain".