#Duran duran

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Duran Duran signing copies of their new video at the Video Shack in New York (1983)

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Duran Duran - Ordinary World 1992

"Ordinary World" is a song by English pop band Duran Duran, released in December 1992 as the first single from their seventh studio album and second self-titled album, commonly known as the Wedding Album. The ballad, written by the band and co-produced with John Jones, reached number 1 on the US Billboard Top 40/Mainstream chart, the Canadian RPM 100 Hit Tracks chart, and the Italian Singles Chart. It also peaked at number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, number 2 in Iceland and Sweden, and number 6 on the UK Singles Chart.

The song was nominated for Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically in May 1994. The music video was nominated for MTV Video Music Award's Best Cinematography in a Video in 1993. Lead vocalist Simon Le Bon sang the song with Luciano Pavarotti at a benefit concert for War Child. "Ordinary World" remains one of Duran Duran's most popular songs and, in October 2021, was their second-most streamed song in the UK. Le Bon noted the song lyrics are about "trying to get over the death of a best friend. And putting it into words freed me, absolutely. It really worked for me emotionally and mentally. Everyone who heard it could apply it to something in their life, but for a different reason."

"Ordinary World" received a total of 75,2% yes votes! 💖 Previous Duran Duran polls: #21 "The Wild Boys", #133 "The Chauffeur".

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Second Verse

Part 1

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inspiring new wave quotes to live by:

"ahyayayayaya ahyayayayayayaya" - love plus one by haircut 100

"ha ha ha ha ha hi" - true by spandau ballet

"fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa" - psycho killer by talking heads

"way oh way oh ooh way oh way oh" - walk like an egyptian by the bangles

"la la la la la la la la" - don't you (forget about me) by simple minds

"de do do do de da da da" - de do do do de da da da by the police

"uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh" - the breakup song by the greg kihn band

"whoa whoa whoa oh oh whoa whoa whoa oh oh" - things can only get better by howard jones

"whyayayaya" - the reflex by duran duran

"hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey" - and she was by talking heads

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Rio

Duran Duran

The identity of the model whose likeness graced the cover of Duran Duran’s album “Rio” has finally been revealed.

Marcie Hunt-Dinkel, the co-owner of a small winery in Napa, is the woman with the “cherry ice cream smile” who inspired Patrick Nagel’s artwork for the classic 1982 album, experts confirmed.

The band’s fans spent decades searching for the original image used by the Playboy illustrator. Over the weekend, Mark Walker, a Nagel expert, and art broker Monica Moynihan, a fan of the artist, announced their discovery on Instagram.

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John Taylor of Duran Duran ⋆ ౨ৎ ˚ ˖ ࣪ Unknown source

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I HAVE FINISHED SCANNING 8 BEAT GAG VOLUMES 4-6!!!

They are available to read for free on my google drive!

Link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-3mzepVlPwG4rfeR30khWksmvZf3PjT1

I hope you all enjoy and have fun!! i dont mind reposts/downloads, do whatever!! i do ask if you could spread my google drive around if able to so more people can discover the scans!!

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80's bedroom

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John Taylor

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It’s actually rude that I wasn’t alive in the 80s

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in touch with the ground, I’m on the hunt I’m after you, a scent and a sound, I’m lost in a crowd, and I’m hungry like the wolf. straddle the line of discord and rhyme, I’m on the hunt I’m after you. mouth is alive, with juices like wine, and I’m hungry like the wolf

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Duran Duran, Ordinary World, 1992

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Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas? 1984

"Do They Know It's Christmas?" is a charity song written by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise money for the 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia. The BBC News crew were the first to document the famine, with Buerk's report describing it as "a biblical famine in the 20th century" and "the closest thing to hell on Earth". The song was recorded by Band Aid, a supergroup assembled by Geldof and Ure consisting of popular British and Irish musical acts such as U2, Sting, Wham!, Duran Duran, Culture Club, and Phil Collins, as well as the US group Kool & the Gang. The song was recorded in a single day in November 1984, and the single was released in the UK on 7 December 1984.

It entered the UK singles chart at number one, where it remained for five weeks, becoming Christmas number one. It sold a million copies in the first week, making it the fastest-selling single in UK chart history until Elton John's "Candle in the Wind 1997". UK sales passed three million on the last day of 1984. The song also reached number one in 13 other countries. It was released in the US on 10 December 1984 and sold 1.9 million copies in its first eleven days on release but did not reach number one, due to the more complex chart system, which counted airplay as well as sales. Despite outselling the official number one by four to one, it did not make the top ten due to a lack of airplay, and reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song had sold 11.7 million copies worldwide by 1989 and 3.8 million in the UK by 2017.

Most retailers agreed to sell the record at its cost price of £1.35 including VAT. The British government donated an amount to the charity equal to the amount of tax they had collected on the single. The song raised £8 million for Ethiopia within a year, far exceeding Geldof's hopes. When Wham!, who appeared on "Do They Know It's Christmas?", reached number two with their single "Last Christmas" (poll #445), they donated their royalties to the Band Aid Trust. The success led to several other charity singles, such as "We Are the World" (1985) by USA for Africa, and spin-off charity events, such as Comic Relief and the 1985 Live Aid concert. In 2010, the BBC apologised after falsely reporting that money raised by Band Aid and Live Aid had been diverted by rebels and used to pay for weapons.

Critics objected to the song's depiction of Ethiopia and Africa as barren. Ure said the song was secondary to the purpose of raising money for the cause. It was re-recorded and re-released in 1989, 2004 and 2014. All three reached number one in the UK, and the 1989 and 2004 versions became Christmas number ones. A new mix, combining elements of the previous versions, was released in 2024 for the 40th anniversary. For the 2014 version, several contentious lyrics were rewritten, and the song was changed to focus on Ebola rather than famine. The new lyrics have also been criticised as promoting stereotypes and condescension. Criticism from Africans regarding the song remained: in 2014, African activists and Twitter users complained that the song disregarded the diversity of the continent of Africa and ultimately did more harm than good for the people.

Several publications and commentators have described the lyrics as racist and demeaning towards Ethiopians. Ethiopia is home to one of the oldest Christian communities in the world, yet the lyrics and title imply that Africans would be unaware of Christmas at all. Peter Gill, one of the few Western journalists in Ethiopia at the time, said: "As Ethiopians have pointed out ever since, they did of course know it was Christmas because the starving were mainly [Orthodox] Christian."

"Do They Know It's Christmas?" received a total of 48,7% yes votes.

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Duran Duran - My Own Way

Top of the Pops - December 3, 1981

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I'm asking you all y'all to tip one back for the biggest Duran Duran fan I ever knew, my best friend and a damned good man. He lost is fight with cancer. Just, FUCK!

I love you Rocky.