In 1995, Duran Duran released an album of cover tunes. The one that got the most attention was this cover of Grand Master Melle Mel’s anti-cocaine anthem, White Lines. Listen as Duran Duran raps! The 90s were a wondrous time that we will never know again.
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This song and video were both a part of Duran Duran’s early 90s comeback. Backing vocalist Tessa Niles is both heard in the song and seen in the video as she struggles to escape from the underwater chains that bind her. The majority of this video was shot in Los Angeles but the giant aquarium scenes were filmed at the London Zoo.
Director Julien Temple needs no introduction. He is, of course, best known for his work with the Sex Pistols.
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For today’s music video of the day, we have the second video for Duran Duran’s Lonely In Your Nightmare.
Both videos were directed by Highlander’s Russell Mulcahy.
This is one of two videos for Duran Duran’s Lonely In Your Nightmare. In this one, Simon Le Bon finds old photographs and remembers a past relationship that might have just been someone’s dream. Lonely In Your Nightmare appeared on Rio, one of the defining albums of the early 80s.
Before he made a little film called Highlander, director Russell Mulcahy was Duran Duran’s video director of choice in the early 80s and, of course, he worked with many other bands as well. His stylish music videos dominated MTV and set the template for which most subsequent videos would come.
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Directed by Russell Mulcahy, the video for Wild Boys cost over a million pounds, which was considered to be an astronomical sum in 1984. Both the video and the song is based on the William S. Burroughs novel, The Wild Boys. Mulcahy had long-wanted to adapt the book into a film and the song was written to serve as a part of the soundtrack of the proposed film. (The film itself was never made.)
The costumes in the video were left over from The Road Warrior. The video, featuring all of the members of Duran Duran being tortured in different ways, was controversial but ultimately very popular.
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When I was a kid, I lived in Perry County, Arkansas, and we didn’t have cable TV or MTV, but what we did have was Friday Night Videos on one of our 3 channels. I’d stay up late on Friday nights in hopes of seeing a video for one of my favorite songs. This would have been somewhere around 1983 or so. I distinctly remember one night being excited that the song “Hungry Like the Wolf” was coming on. Sitting on my porch tonight and feeling a little nostalgic, I think I’ll share that song with all of you!! Enjoy!
Today’s music video of the day is for the title track of Duran Duran’s 2023 Halloween-themed album. It’s a good video, one that gives off a definite Tim Burton Before He Want Hollywood sort of feel.
All bands should put out special Halloween albums and videos. It would certainly make my job a lot easier.
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More bands need to put out Halloween videos. Thank you, Duran Duran, for remembering the season!
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Directed by Russell Mulcahy, the video for Wild Boys cost over a million pounds, which was considered to be an astronomical sum in 1984. Both the video and the song is based on the William S. Burroughs novel, The Wild Boys. Mulcahy had long-wanted to adapt the book into a film and the song was written to serve as a part of the soundtrack of the proposed film. (The film itself was never made.)
The costumes in the video were left over from The Road Warrior. The video, featuring all of the members of Duran Duran being tortured in different ways, was controversial but ultimately very popular.
Enjoy!
For today’s music video of the day, we have the second video for Duran Duran’s Lonely In Your Nightmare, to go along with the first.
Both videos were directed by Highlander’s Russell Mulcahy.
