Hey sweety, you must be almost my same age. I love you for that. Something to confess: I never had a woman cos my mental problems. Neverdeless I love those times.
I’m a child of the 80’s and was about 10 years old when this came out. There was no better time to have music like this on everyday, all day, on the radio and on TV. Duran Duran really was a huge part of the soundtrack to my childhood.
This song, this band, their music. Timeless. How can it be 40 years since Rio? I was a fan when I was 14. I'm 54 now and still think they're wonderful.
I'm with you, Tracer. I am 54 years old as well and I loved this song when I first heard it. Also big on "Rio", "New Moon On Monday", "The Reflex", and many others!
Just saw these guys in Dallas a few days ago. I'm an 80's metal head but secretly grew up listening to these guys and many others during the second wave of the British invasion. These guys are very talented musicians. They killed it at the AAC.
Metal head here too. Had to secretly listen to these guys every now and then, definitely not in front of my metal friends! Oh and my brother drove Simon in Portland, Oregon a few years back, said he was nice. ☮️💜
What are you expecting, weekly national newspaper headlines? He's always getting praise from what I've seen. Read more comments I'd say mate., people are always saying how good he is.
After watching this and The Reflex, you gotta realize how important John Taylor was to all of this. His bass lines carried this band. And this coming from a drummer.
21stCenturySchizoid-D yes but I disagree. John has great bass lines but the sounds that Nick creates enhances the songs to a higher level. Take this song as an example. I think he is the true difference maker that made good songs great.
This is from John Taylor’s book “In The Pleasure Groove”. JT was actually still playing guitar when Roger Taylor joined - the new drummer’s technique forcing him to adopt a more rhythmic funky style. And then he heard ‘Everybody Dance’ by Chic. The singer at the time ‘Andy Wicket’ just so happened to have a bass lying around... and the rest is history!
I'm 25 years so unfortunately didn't grow up in this generation but I'm recently discovering Duran Duran music. I wonder what it was like in this time. Such great songs! Rio, Hungry Like The Wolf & this 1! There's probably more!
Wow, surreal to hear this. I bought my first DX2 album when I was 12, in 1982. You have loads of great music to explore. Check out the track Secret Oktober, Late Bar, Planet Earth...endless amazing tracks.
It was great. Ronald Reagan was president, just alot of Russia scare of nuclear war. You see in some 80s films like Arnold did , no not terminators. James bond films. Others. Gas was cheap for a time. No cell phones. People were connected, not disconnected like now. Cell phones face book doses not help or work. People were pro America not against it. Cus these people are not Americans.
I'm only 22 but I've been listening to Duran Duran off-handedly since I was around 16 up until this year actually. They've now quickly become one of my favorites and I've gotten my mom back into them too since I got some of the CDs. This past August, me and her had gone to see them both for the first time! She was a big fan when she was around 14, but was never able to see them then, so it truly was one of the coolest times of my life ever, it meant alot. (Neat coincidence that it was also the Future Past/40th Anniversary tour too)
My older brother used to make fun of me when I was a kid for being a Duranie. Tried to say they weren't talented and would not last 5 years in the industry. Whose laughing now? These guys are iconic!
philaman1972 how true. the songs and the times match. these kids will never understand. this is our music! no negative comments! just enjoy! or go listen to your generation talent. oh I forgot yours didn't have any. rap rap.
I didn't fully appreciate Duran Duran in the 1980's. I was more Punk, Powerpop, and Rockabilly. Then I heard Roxy Music and finally understood Duran Duran's vibe.
I still have my DD album from 1981 on vinyl. I still want JT so much. I gotta meet him before he or I go to heaven. Its infatuation I know but 40 years of it? Or a yearning love for a man I've never met but want to. Oh god please let me meet him.
In my opinion this is Duran Duran's definitive song. It just feels like the song that best represents them in the 1980's. O.k., and maybe The Reflex as well
This is the first song where I realised that Simon is amazing at harmonies. I tend to love all their songs where I hear Simon harmonising with himself. Genius.
I think so. Although in the documentary, he said that he learned the technique from church in Pinner. They even played a recording of him singing that hymn about the wings of a dove. Bless him. So talented. They all are.
I've been a loyal fan of theirs for nearly 40 years and I don't see that changing. They were such a huge part of my childhood. A View To A Kill is still the greatest Bond theme song!!!
When I was a cynical young boy I used to hate the fact that I loved Duran Duran. They were mainstream pop music. I was a punk rock fiend. As I grew older I only loved them more. I grew away from genres and grew to love good music in general. Duran Duran, regardless of how you've made me feel at times the 80s and 90s would have been nothing without you.
Back in the day of songs, bands, albums, instruments. Synthesizers were new, analog, warm, magic. Videos, music stores, album covers, 12” remixes. Dreaming, searching, discovering, collecting. Clothes, concerts, mix tapes, posters, fun. Friends, not phones. Creativity, not content. Smiles, silliness, cool to be young, not grown up too soon. Up late, land lines, waiting until midnight tickets going on sale and speed dialing to get floor seats. Going with best friends at 15 and sneaking wine coolers and dancing. Wouldn’t trade being a teen in the eighties for anything-once in a lifetime experience that truly was better than any other time before or since and this takes me back as if time stopped…
When it came to Duran Duran, there was nothing music fans should know other than the fact this U.K band rocked the music scene worldwide in the Eighties and early Nineties. Four decades ago this song and video were released. It was never fully appreciated for its intrinsic value.
First of all. I am a 55 year old man living in the US and I have been a DD fan since 1982. These guys are brilliant. People can say what they want but the video version of this song carries a different mix of the song than what was released on the single or album, I believe this version is the Bob Clearmountain mix. The version released on the 7" single and LP was the mix they decided to go with after deciding Clearmountain's mix was to soft. Both mixes are great but anyone else see the difference?
Which LP had the studio version? Arena had the live version which was way different. I have an EP with this one, don't recall how many versions though.
I don't remember there being another mix, this is the original that was released in 1983 and went straight to number 1 in the UK charts I remember it well, I was 14 and a big Duran fan already. This song originally didn't appear on any Album until the first album was released in the USA and then this song was added to it, which to us in the UK would have found very odd because in our minds it really didn't belong there. Still a big fan now and always have been with all their ups & downs.
In the early Spring of 1983, I was 18 and I remember the telephone rang and when I picked it up a music survey company asked me to listen to 20 second clips of different songs and then asked if I had ever heard them before or if I knew who the artists were. Out of the 10 or so songs, I distinctly remember that this one stood out. So much so, that I wrote it down. After the call I went out on a search to find out where I could get it. The search ended at The House of Guitars with a fresh piece of vinyl! Fantastic to see that Duran Duran is still around creating relevant well-crafted music. We need to clone the 80's and have another run!Cheers!
Here after watching the Netflix documentary on them. Very underrated and underappreciated band . They were and still are great musicians and songwriters. I remember being almost 9 and this video being on heavy rotation on MTV in the summer of 1983. Such a great time to be a kid!
This song invokes so many memories. Riding about on my Raleigh Bmx, McDonald's was a rare treat, risk of nuclear war , Thatcher, Reagan, breakfast tv still in its infancy, roads were empty, top of the pops had anything from Duran Duran to shakin Stevens.
Back when bands wrote their music , played their instruments , paid their dues before making it on the scene - fantastically talented trend setting group so proud of them and proud that I was a fan of a band who played real music back then and are still going strong doing the same now. Brilliant!
Wow!! This sure brought back happy memories. I was in my early 20s when they made this video back in the early 80s. I had all of their albums and cassettes. They were my favorite group.
Being just 10yrs old in 1983 & watching this video on MTV at the time in Los Angeles. Then switching the TV to play my Atari 2600. It was all too magical!😉😎
I discovered this song watching the vH1 behind the music episode in HS (late 90's early 2000's) . So, I added it to download in college and put it on a mix CD in the fall of 2001. It was on my computer playlist and a mix CD I loved to listen to while doing cardio. At the time (freshman year of college) there was a guy I met my first semester of freshman year who I wasn't sure if he was in to me or not (he gave me mixed signals the whole semester) this song always made me think of him. Lol, at the end of the semester he asked me out on what I THOUGHT was a date to a fast food restaurant and didn't pay for my food, so I finally got my answer😂. I think of that back and forth every time I hear this song. The burned CD from college with this song was one of my favorites and now it's on my Spotify playlist. Long story but this song will forever make me think of my freshman year of college first semester, wandering if someone liked me or not. After months of mixed signals I'm pretty sure they didn't 😂
Love that period of the 80s when synths were integrated into bands. That new wave era, Depeche Mode, Gary Newman, Yazoo, Ultravox and Duran Duran will always be a period I look back fondly. Duran Duran were just so damn good at writing and performing. Roger Taylor's bass tracks really do it for me - he has the funk alright.
You mean John Taylor 😊. BTW, Roger Taylor was was hot AF when he would pound those skins (drums) and was smokin’ hot looking doing it too. Definitely the hottest looking of DD
The minute I hear this I'm transported back to the 80s. It's amazing how strong auditory memories are! I remember feeling so young and so far away as an American fan. I remember the fan letter I wrote to Duran Duran but given the era never got a response. It just goes to show how much the world has changed.
Duran Duran were all four of them ridiculously handsome, not to mention talented. But John Taylor was my crush, esp. in HLTW, which kinda goes with the idea of this song.💕
Just saw these guys last night at the Hollywood Bowl! They were amazing! My favorite band growing up. Wish they sang this song last night. One of my favorites!
Ah yes! Everytime i hear this song it takes me back to 1983! (Very few songs have this affect!) "You're about as easy as a nuclear war!" Wagging my finger at you! Thankyou for posting!
I was a huge Duran Duran fan in high school but I couldn't tell my friends because we all were into Metalica, Rush and Van Halen! I Love Duran Duran! There, I said it.
Most beautiful men to ever form a band, write their own songs, perform those songs and be brilliant at it. Music critics wanted to portray them as a "boy band" because they just could not stand the fact that they were that talented and also incredibly hot. Sorry haters, they are that good! And if you've never seen them live, I just don't know what to say. Cheers!
I know...don't you let anyone call them a "boy band". Get 'em! (that made me think of that crazy video with the Irish family chasing the bat crying, "get 'em, get 'em, Derry!" LOL).
Well, musically, the band Japan wrote and performed better music and did the makeup thing better, having true Bowie influence. Yes, they do deserve "boy band" as a label.
Wow, hearing good music is so refreshing and nourishing. I was in the gym today working out, and the music they play is 95% today's current hits :-( This song came on and my whole nervous system breathed a sigh of relief :-) I hadn't heard this song in ages. Classics like wine grow sweeter with time.
When you think of every Duran Duran song, there is always a great guitar riff. This song is no different. Andy is SO underrated guitarist for no reason.
So classic 80s. The band was getting double centuries then... the concerts were crazy. And they continued and continue to bring job to my life. There is something more people should know - how good these guys are...
This song scared the shit out of me when I was a kid. Pop the cassette in, press play, 10 seconds of silence when the tape first starts, then all you hear is "PLEASE PLEASE...". no gradual instrument intro, just hits you in the face.
One of my favorite Duran Duran songs and video. I saw them in concert, April 5, 2017, and they played this song. It was so unexpected, and I was SO happy to hear it again!! LOVE Duran Duran, they are the best and are still around for a reason or actually many!!
Duran Duran could have been the biggest band in the world. And still be today. They wanted to change their formula and that's how history went... But from 1981 to 1985, boy, they were kings.
It's not uncommon for musicians to want to do something else. They move in and out of a lot of bands, and they're often as surprised by the one that hits as big as anyone, lol. Their late 80s and early 90s stuff was still solid, and both Power Station and Arcadia were amazing side projects.
This is one of Duran Duran's best tracks and I remember it well entering the British singles charts straight in at number one in March 1983.Thank you!!
I bumped into the guitarist in a city nearby a few years ago. h He was impeccably dressed. I got talking to him about music since I like playing guitar. He said he used to play guitar in a band. I never knew who he was until someone told me after he had left the building.
This song is an Anthem for sure, especially the chorus. I remember this song from Kindergarten, which is when I first started to listen to Duran Duran. I have been a dedicated fan ever since. I love the 80's, but I can go on and on about that.
This hit the charts when l had my first breakdown. At first I thought great , then l listened to the words a bit more closely. Well.!! " Please , please tell me now.? " A kick in the groin with the very first words. St Michael.😤.
When I was very young, maybe 7 or 8 years old, I always viewed Simon as a sort of a male role model for me because I viewed him as someone that I could look up to and admire. Actually, I used to look at Simon and think to myself "I want to do that! I want to be a great rock musician and travel the world just like he does!"! I was, and still am, really quite in awe of him because my dad wasn't an especially great role model and anybody that I wanted to model my life after. My mom at first didn't really understand the attraction but she now knows that her daughter is a Duranie and will stay Simon Le Bon's #1 fan and ardent admirer.
Here in June 2024. This song never ever gets old. Still makes me turn it up and dance my ass off. It makes me go back to my 14 year old self. I'm 53 now! Duran Duran is such a huge part of my lifes soundtrack. God bless them all.
These videos might seem "cringe" to today's teens and college students, but many of the visual techniques in DD video like this (the framing, coloring, montages, wipes, use of shadow/light, non-linear micro-speed editing, split screening, etc.) combined to create something entirely new at the time and were a massive influence on videos to come. Granted, Thriller took videos to even greater prominence, but these guys paved the way. And the music still holds up, video or no video.
It's a huge part of the Duran Duran experience! These videos made us fly to another world! Boy I miss the "new romanticism" of the 80s and I'm a fan of realism!
I was obsessed with this song and video in 1983 and I am STILL completely obsessed with this song and video in 2022 and I still have the same visceral reaction as I did in 1983. I'll NEVER get tired of hearing this track.
And was a little bit racist…. Godley and Cream had to make that mechanical legs video thingy for Herbie Hancock because mtv didn’t want to play anything showing him.
This song is awesome! They achieved stuff with bass which others could not even think of. Our school days were spent raving about the Fab Five from Birmingham. Got up at 3am to catch Duran Duran being played in Australian Radio.
I was a kid 6 years old when Duran Duran hit it big. They summed up my uneasiness and also attracted me with their musical abilities like Simon Lebon's vocals and the layering of instruments. I have both funny and painful memories of the years when they were so popular, but I still love their music in fact now more than ever before since those days. Their videos and songs are breathtaking. It's hard to believe what has happened to music and how bad it has become in the mainstream. Nowadays if you want quality it's all independently done. Back then music was still young and it appeared to be growing fast rock music I mean we all know classical and jazz go back way longer not to mention folk traditions. I knew I was gay then. Think of how scary that is- 6 or 7 and you know all this fucking deep stuff about yourself and people around you and I think that was what eventually demolished my childhood. I was so completely different from other kids and yet we all on the subject of music could be united. Those days have gone. Now I'm pretty much a hermit and an outsider. Looking backwards I believe I knew it was gonna end up like that.
Andy Morris How true. And I'm always asking why??? The charts used to be full of creative and and inspiring music what happened for the sake of the world after the early 90s!!!!??? The last few with integrity are bands that now are ignored. Pearl Jam won't fill arenas anymore and we all know what happened to Kurt Cobain although he is a bit too depressing for me despite his very big talents. Duran Duran got usurped by other things and now all we have in the charts is sleazy slutty trashy shit!!!
+Benjamin Blake Mitchner A lot of today's music is angry and depressing. I'll always love the '80s and the music. I was in college and then starting my career. The soundtrack of my 20s. Yay!
Lisa Cunningham I agree. The 80s and before it was much more positively written had much more real energy and excitement. It was until the late 90s/mid 90s a great world for music, but then the long downward slide happened and it was no returning from there it seems. Unfortunately.
IN 1983, this was a very rare instance (apart from The Beatles), where a song went immediately to #1 in the U.K. when it was released. I think The Jam had also achieved this. An amazing song. I had always thought that the line: "You're about as easy as a nuclear war" was dumb. Now, I love it!
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Life was perfect when Duran Duran was playing daily on the radio. Love being a teenager in the 80's! Best times ever.
Hey!.....Yeah, the only downside to being a teenager in the 80's is that u r really old now......
I could not agree more, we should get together lol
Yes Very Very True. Life Sucks Now.
Hey sweety, you must be almost my same age. I love you for that. Something to confess: I never had a woman cos my mental problems. Neverdeless I love those times.
Especially in the UK..The Annie Nightingale Show...x
I’m a child of the 80’s and was about 10 years old when this came out. There was no better time to have music like this on everyday, all day, on the radio and on TV. Duran Duran really was a huge part of the soundtrack to my childhood.
We are about the same age, bought a VHS tape of theirs, COD. let the youngsters chomp on that
This song, this band, their music. Timeless. How can it be 40 years since Rio? I was a fan when I was 14. I'm 54 now and still think they're wonderful.
Time sure flies by.
I was 8 years old when Rio came out and i still remember. Now,im almost 48 and im sure it were the best years of my life.
I have always loved Duran Duran too since I was 12, I had posters all over my bedroom walls. I am now in my 50's and I still love them
Me too 51 hungry like the wolf got me into them.
I'm with you, Tracer. I am 54 years old as well and I loved this song when I first heard it. Also big on "Rio", "New Moon On Monday", "The Reflex", and many others!
Congrats to them for being induced into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Oh yeah? Finally! Congrats to them :)
I know Right!!
Shame that Andy wasn't there. Sadly, he has stage 4 metastatic cancer.
@@dorothypozi543 Andy gave a recent update on his Health and said his Cancer was in Remission! The Video is on RUclips somewhere.
@@dorothypozi543Sad to hear that. 😔
Roger is so adorable at the end. He seems uncomfortable to be looking into the camera and turns away, which has always been so endearing to me. Bello.
I’m sure I saw an interview a while back where he says how much he hates that part of the video for that reason, or words to that effect
My favourite Duranie! Had a massive crash on him when I was a teenager! ❤
Roger is a overlooked Duran Duran member but I love him
Just saw these guys in Dallas a few days ago. I'm an 80's metal head but secretly grew up listening to these guys and many others during the second wave of the British invasion. These guys are very talented musicians. They killed it at the AAC.
They did!!!!
Metal head here … going to see DD in a month
Saw them tonight in Sacramento!
Metal head here too.
Had to secretly listen to these guys every now and then, definitely not in front of my metal friends!
Oh and my brother drove Simon in Portland, Oregon a few years back, said he was nice.
☮️💜
The bass player is a god
John Taylor never gets enough credit for his skills. One of the best bassists to ever pick up the instrument.
True indeed!! The licks at the end of this jam are superb!
What are you expecting, weekly national newspaper headlines? He's always getting praise from what I've seen. Read more comments I'd say mate., people are always saying how good he is.
Totally agree 👍
Yed
actually between bass players he is finally getting the credit he deserves. Anyway he play bass and not everyone knows what it is....
Simon Leon is one of the best front men/lead singers of all-time. Such prescence, such attitude, such a great voice! There I said it.....
LeBon.🙄
@@emmarae4322 Damn, it was probably autocorrect. Give Tom a break. He's really a great guy if you'd just get to know him.
This Mr Leon certainly assassinates the competition
@@johnewell4446 John, why don't you give Emma a break about Tom... You are no spring chicken either
@@storiesreadaloud5635it's LeBon, dude!
After watching this and The Reflex, you gotta realize how important John Taylor was to all of this. His bass lines carried this band. And this coming from a drummer.
Great comment. There are a few docs that showcase this fact. It's awesome the way he progressed from their DJ/Club days.
Heavily agreed!!!
21stCenturySchizoid-D yes but I disagree. John has great bass lines but the sounds that Nick creates enhances the songs to a higher level. Take this song as an example. I think he is the true difference maker that made good songs great.
This is from John Taylor’s book “In The Pleasure Groove”. JT was actually still playing guitar when Roger Taylor joined - the new drummer’s technique forcing him to adopt a more rhythmic funky style. And then he heard ‘Everybody Dance’ by Chic. The singer at the time ‘Andy Wicket’ just so happened to have a bass lying around... and the rest is history!
The bass part in "Rio" is nuts. It's like if the manic energy of cocaine had a sound. 😂
Who else would wait for Duran Duran to play on MTV?
HAHA! Yes indeed! 7 year old kid listening to MTV just waiting for a Duran Duran video!
Yes!! And what about when a new DD video was just being released! ❤❤ Ahhh, those were the days.
Waited for hours.. When it was finally on, my folks turned off the tv😢
I'm 25 years so unfortunately didn't grow up in this generation but I'm recently discovering Duran Duran music. I wonder what it was like in this time. Such great songs! Rio, Hungry Like The Wolf & this 1! There's probably more!
Wow, surreal to hear this. I bought my first DX2 album when I was 12, in 1982. You have loads of great music to explore. Check out the track Secret Oktober, Late Bar, Planet Earth...endless amazing tracks.
Trust me you would've loved it music video's dancing and staying up late on the weekends waiting for you favorite video's to play on T.V.
It was great. Ronald Reagan was president, just alot of Russia scare of nuclear war. You see in some 80s films like Arnold did , no not terminators. James bond films. Others. Gas was cheap for a time. No cell phones. People were connected, not disconnected like now. Cell phones face book doses not help or work. People were pro America not against it. Cus these people are not Americans.
we had sooo much more than they have now too!@@blue6940
I'm only 22 but I've been listening to Duran Duran off-handedly since I was around 16 up until this year actually. They've now quickly become one of my favorites and I've gotten my mom back into them too since I got some of the CDs. This past August, me and her had gone to see them both for the first time! She was a big fan when she was around 14, but was never able to see them then, so it truly was one of the coolest times of my life ever, it meant alot. (Neat coincidence that it was also the Future Past/40th Anniversary tour too)
Finally. I'm surrounded by people who actually have good taste in music! This is HEAVEN!!!
Skull Head that's why i sometimes rather am in a comment section then in my class
Skull Head It's simple. We're turning into our parents..Somehow that's a good thing..lol
Alright I love Duran Duran but who are you to judge other people’s taste in music?
yes! you are not alone appreciating very good music!
Heck yea, Duran Duran rocks. Just as good today if not better in my opinion.
My older brother used to make fun of me when I was a kid for being a Duranie. Tried to say they weren't talented and would not last 5 years in the industry. Whose laughing now? These guys are iconic!
Nobody made videos as good as Duran Duran 😍
@@Resgerr...Duran Duran elevated music videos to a Art form !
I'm a Bluesman and I say they ruled the 80's . ( so there!)
Untalented? John Taylor's basslines are some of the most terrific in pop music!
My family use to tease me too. They would say they were a bunch of gay no talent pretty boys who wouldn't last 2 years. Well who's laughing now?!
If you were not around in the 80s when this song first came out, you have no idea how fun a time it was to have grown up in!
Hahahahahaha!!! You've said it there my friend!!!!! Absolutely no clue what so ever!!!! God knows I miss this kind of music than now😁😔😬😕😳😖😫😩😤
I was 14 when this song came out .. love it the 80's!
I wish I was around then LOL
philaman1972 how true. the songs and the times match. these kids will never understand. this is our music! no negative comments! just enjoy! or go listen to your generation talent. oh I forgot yours didn't have any. rap rap.
"No negative comments!" *gives negative comment right after*
I didn't fully appreciate Duran Duran in the 1980's. I was more Punk, Powerpop, and Rockabilly. Then I heard Roxy Music and finally understood Duran Duran's vibe.
Simply the best group of the 80s, music stands up even today.
i have loved duran duran for 35 years now
The best band in the world
Make it 36.
I still have my DD album from 1981 on vinyl. I still want JT so much. I gotta meet him before he or I go to heaven. Its infatuation I know but 40 years of it? Or a yearning love for a man I've never met but want to. Oh god please let me meet him.
In my opinion this is Duran Duran's definitive song. It just feels like the song that best represents them in the 1980's. O.k., and maybe The Reflex as well
eribalsch yes . Clever video, great song and great fashion. It’s all there
They’re more known for Hungry Like The Wolf
Nah...Rio...RIO is their definitive song....no doubt
And 'New moon on Monday'.
Yeah and it also contains a bit of Swing (Japan, v=flHWJoDt3Yo ) so consider it a bonus :D
This is the first song where I realised that Simon is amazing at harmonies. I tend to love all their songs where I hear Simon harmonising with himself. Genius.
Choirboy training in high school may have helped...he learned classical harmonies then in the UK..
I think so. Although in the documentary, he said that he learned the technique from church in Pinner. They even played a recording of him singing that hymn about the wings of a dove. Bless him. So talented. They all are.
this has to be the most beautiful band EVER!!!
I always thought LeBon looked slightly goofy among the others. A bit of a big baby.
AGREED!! GORGEOUS!!
Nick Rhodes is an orange-haired angel on Earth. Simply gorgeous!
As a duranie since 1983 i agree..he was and still is my favorite
and a blonde haired one, and black haired one!
I was IN LOVE with him!
kimerie tate me tooo
Exactly 👍👍👍👍
I've been a loyal fan of theirs for nearly 40 years and I don't see that changing. They were such a huge part of my childhood. A View To A Kill is still the greatest Bond theme song!!!
no, that honor goes to "live and let die" by Paul McCartney.
I love DD, but I can't agree with that one. 'Live and Let Die' is probably the best. Sheena's 'For Your Eyes Only' is my fav.
I love the video to A View to a Kill. Absolutely legendary.
When I was a cynical young boy I used to hate the fact that I loved Duran Duran. They were mainstream pop music. I was a punk rock fiend. As I grew older I only loved them more. I grew away from genres and grew to love good music in general. Duran Duran, regardless of how you've made me feel at times the 80s and 90s would have been nothing without you.
They're new wave so kinda post-punk
Probably their best song to capture the feel and energy of the early 80's. This song is all vibes and emotion.
One of the BEST bands of all time!!!
Back in the day of songs, bands, albums, instruments. Synthesizers were new, analog, warm, magic. Videos, music stores, album covers, 12” remixes. Dreaming, searching, discovering, collecting. Clothes, concerts, mix tapes, posters, fun. Friends, not phones. Creativity, not content. Smiles, silliness, cool to be young, not grown up too soon. Up late, land lines, waiting until midnight tickets going on sale and speed dialing to get floor seats. Going with best friends at 15 and sneaking wine coolers and dancing. Wouldn’t trade being a teen in the eighties for anything-once in a lifetime experience that truly was better than any other time before or since and this takes me back as if time stopped…
FACTS WELL SAID ❤ ❤ ❤❤❤❤
So true😉😉
I love the vocal harmonies in this song, and the way that it makes me feel like it’s the 80s again
When it came to Duran Duran, there was nothing music fans should know other than the fact this U.K band rocked the music scene worldwide in the Eighties and early Nineties. Four decades ago this song and video were released. It was never fully appreciated for its intrinsic value.
"Don't say you're easy on me, you're about as easy as a nuclear war" great line
One of favorites ❤.
At the time, I used to think Love is a Battlefield, marriage is a nuclear war, and divorce is "The Day After".
First of all. I am a 55 year old man living in the US and I have been a DD fan since 1982. These guys are brilliant. People can say what they want but the video version of this song carries a different mix of the song than what was released on the single or album, I believe this version is the Bob Clearmountain mix. The version released on the 7" single and LP was the mix they decided to go with after deciding Clearmountain's mix was to soft. Both mixes are great but anyone else see the difference?
Which LP had the studio version? Arena had the live version which was way different. I have an EP with this one, don't recall how many versions though.
@@ev9466 i think this song was later added to Duran Duran LP. Very rare version.
I’m a 50 year old woman and these are my idols since 1983
I don't remember there being another mix, this is the original that was released in 1983 and went straight to number 1 in the UK charts I remember it well, I was 14 and a big Duran fan already. This song originally didn't appear on any Album until the first album was released in the USA and then this song was added to it, which to us in the UK would have found very odd because in our minds it really didn't belong there. Still a big fan now and always have been with all their ups & downs.
@@MrPt7 they did some extended mixes
In the early Spring of 1983, I was 18 and I remember the telephone rang and when I picked it up a music survey company asked me to listen to 20 second clips of different songs and then asked if I had ever heard them before or if I knew who the artists were. Out of the 10 or so songs, I distinctly remember that this one stood out. So much so, that I wrote it down. After the call I went out on a search to find out where I could get it. The search ended at The House of Guitars with a fresh piece of vinyl! Fantastic to see that Duran Duran is still around creating relevant well-crafted music. We need to clone the 80's and have another run!Cheers!
I had such a crush on Simon!! Loved being in my 20s in the 80s! Best time every to grow up....great music, movies, fashion & haircuts! ;)
This went straight in at number one back in 1983, brilliant song
Yep, I was one of those who helped it get there. Still have my vinyl single.
@@SoEightiesItHurts the 80s was best decade for music, so. many great records, talented artists,
They rarely play this live.
@@stones80123 they don't, it should be played more often, there first number one
Not in U.S.A
Duran's only number 1s here were The Reflex & From A View To Kill
Here after watching the Netflix documentary on them. Very underrated and underappreciated band . They were and still are great musicians and songwriters. I remember being almost 9 and this video being on heavy rotation on MTV in the summer of 1983. Such a great time to be a kid!
This song invokes so many memories. Riding about on my Raleigh Bmx, McDonald's was a rare treat, risk of nuclear war , Thatcher, Reagan, breakfast tv still in its infancy, roads were empty, top of the pops had anything from Duran Duran to shakin Stevens.
Back when bands wrote their music , played their instruments , paid their dues before making it on the scene - fantastically talented trend setting group so proud of them and proud that I was a fan of a band who played real music back then and are still going strong doing the same now. Brilliant!
Love the lyrics "There's a dream that strings the road, with broken glass for us to hold and I cut so far before I had to say"
Wow!! This sure brought back happy memories. I was in my early 20s when they made this video back in the early 80s. I had all of their albums and cassettes. They were my favorite group.
"Don't say you're easy on me... you're about as easy as a nuclear war." Oh dear.
Being just 10yrs old in 1983 & watching this video on MTV at the time in Los Angeles. Then switching the TV to play my Atari 2600. It was all too magical!😉😎
Wife here...OMG..SOOOOO EXCITED TO SEE THESE GUYS IN ATLANTA GA 2023!!!
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Duran Duran the best of the 80s
I discovered this song watching the vH1 behind the music episode in HS (late 90's early 2000's) . So, I added it to download in college and put it on a mix CD in the fall of 2001. It was on my computer playlist and a mix CD I loved to listen to while doing cardio. At the time (freshman year of college) there was a guy I met my first semester of freshman year who I wasn't sure if he was in to me or not (he gave me mixed signals the whole semester) this song always made me think of him. Lol, at the end of the semester he asked me out on what I THOUGHT was a date to a fast food restaurant and didn't pay for my food, so I finally got my answer😂.
I think of that back and forth every time I hear this song. The burned CD from college with this song was one of my favorites and now it's on my Spotify playlist. Long story but this song will forever make me think of my freshman year of college first semester, wandering if someone liked me or not. After months of mixed signals I'm pretty sure they didn't 😂
Love that period of the 80s when synths were integrated into bands. That new wave era, Depeche Mode, Gary Newman, Yazoo, Ultravox and Duran Duran will always be a period I look back fondly. Duran Duran were just so damn good at writing and performing. Roger Taylor's bass tracks really do it for me - he has the funk alright.
John Taylor played bass; Roger Taylor was the drummer.
Don't forget MTV....
You mean John Taylor 😊. BTW, Roger Taylor was was hot AF when he would pound those skins (drums) and was smokin’ hot looking doing it too. Definitely the hottest looking of DD
Gary Newman, Depeche More, Yahoo, ultravox
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But John played the bass :(
The minute I hear this I'm transported back to the 80s. It's amazing how strong auditory memories are!
I remember feeling so young and so far away as an American fan. I remember the fan letter I wrote to Duran Duran but given the era never got a response.
It just goes to show how much the world has changed.
Duran Duran were all four of them ridiculously handsome, not to mention talented. But John Taylor was my crush, esp. in HLTW, which kinda goes with the idea of this song.💕
Just saw these guys last night at the Hollywood Bowl! They were amazing! My favorite band growing up. Wish they sang this song last night. One of my favorites!
They sang it last week at the Toronto show. It was excellent.
Ah yes! Everytime i hear this song it takes me back to 1983! (Very few songs have this affect!)
"You're about as easy as a nuclear war!" Wagging my finger at you!
Thankyou for posting!
I was a huge Duran Duran fan in high school but I couldn't tell my friends because we all were into Metalica, Rush and Van Halen! I Love Duran Duran! There, I said it.
Same bro same
I close my eyes and im transported back to the wonderful carefree days of my youth . 1980s music will always hold a special place in my heart !
For me in some shots Simon looks a lot like a young Elvis... Great song, great video, the great fab5 Duran Duran 🙏
Simon did resemble elvis around this time and especially when they did arcadia and he colored his hair black.
I just wrote the same thing. He def reminds me of Elvis in this video
THE CREATIVITY IN THEIR VIDEOS AND 80S VIDEOS IN GENERAL WAS AMAZING.... MY GROUP FOR LIFE...
Most beautiful men to ever form a band, write their own songs, perform those songs and be brilliant at it. Music critics wanted to portray them as a "boy band" because they just could not stand the fact that they were that talented and also incredibly hot. Sorry haters, they are that good! And if you've never seen them live, I just don't know what to say. Cheers!
I know...don't you let anyone call them a "boy band". Get 'em! (that made me think of that crazy video with the Irish family chasing the bat crying, "get 'em, get 'em, Derry!" LOL).
I wish I had been able to see them in the 80s. :-/
VERY well said Dawn. Summed up brilliantly. Saw them 3 times.
Yasssssssss!
Well, musically, the band Japan wrote and performed better music and did the makeup thing better, having true Bowie influence. Yes, they do deserve "boy band" as a label.
Wow, hearing good music is so refreshing and nourishing. I was in the gym today working out, and the music they play is 95% today's current hits :-(
This song came on and my whole nervous system breathed a sigh of relief :-)
I hadn't heard this song in ages. Classics like wine grow sweeter with time.
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I love it !! ^^
👍🏻👏🏻✌🏻🎶
I can imagine!!!
Total 80's child, listening to Duran Duran always on KROQ 106.7. Yeah!!!
What city?
When you think of every Duran Duran song, there is always a great guitar riff. This song is no different. Andy is SO underrated guitarist for no reason.
Jeeeeesuuus....we were so young....we were so beautiful....i miss this time
So classic 80s. The band was getting double centuries then... the concerts were crazy. And they continued and continue to bring job to my life. There is something more people should know - how good these guys are...
This song scared the shit out of me when I was a kid. Pop the cassette in, press play, 10 seconds of silence when the tape first starts, then all you hear is "PLEASE PLEASE...". no gradual instrument intro, just hits you in the face.
WaBAM! 😂
One of my favorite Duran Duran songs and video. I saw them in concert, April 5, 2017, and they played this song. It was so unexpected, and I was SO happy to hear it again!! LOVE Duran Duran, they are the best and are still around for a reason or actually many!!
Duran Duran could have been the biggest band in the world. And still be today. They wanted to change their formula and that's how history went... But from 1981 to 1985, boy, they were kings.
It's not uncommon for musicians to want to do something else. They move in and out of a lot of bands, and they're often as surprised by the one that hits as big as anyone, lol. Their late 80s and early 90s stuff was still solid, and both Power Station and Arcadia were amazing side projects.
This is one of Duran Duran's best tracks and I remember it well entering the British singles charts straight in at number one in March 1983.Thank you!!
I bumped into the guitarist in a city nearby a few years ago. h He was impeccably dressed. I got talking to him about music since I like playing guitar. He said he used to play guitar in a band. I never knew who he was until someone told me after he had left the building.
Guitar and synth! 80’s music at its best. Totally great band
This song is an Anthem for sure, especially the chorus. I remember this song from Kindergarten, which is when I first started to listen to Duran Duran. I have been a dedicated fan ever since. I love the 80's, but I can go on and on about that.
I swear to God the bass player in this band (I don't know his name) is one of the greatest of all time.
That would be John Taylor
A few tailors in this outfit. I kid, I kid...
This hit the charts when l had my first breakdown. At first I thought great , then l listened to the words a bit more closely. Well.!!
" Please , please tell me now.? "
A kick in the groin with the very first words. St Michael.😤.
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When I was a kid, my dad used to play a vhs tape with mtv videos and this was the first song. Happy brithday in heaven dear dad.
80's was a decade of great music.
These guys are absolutely effortless at conjuring up such infectious choruses.
When I was very young, maybe 7 or 8 years old, I always viewed Simon as a sort of a male role model for me because I viewed him as someone that I could look up to and admire. Actually, I used to look at Simon and think to myself "I want to do that! I want to be a great rock musician and travel the world just like he does!"! I was, and still am, really quite in awe of him because my dad wasn't an especially great role model and anybody that I wanted to model my life after.
My mom at first didn't really understand the attraction but she now knows that her daughter is a Duranie and will stay Simon Le Bon's #1 fan and ardent admirer.
One of the best 80's there is. Period.
My favorite Duran Duran song.
But they're *all* good.
no what I meant was one of my favorites not "The favorite"
Zlad! Vevo Ah, yeah it's one of my favorites too.
legoclone09 but damn they have so many great songs!
Zlad! Vevo Yes they do!
Here in June 2024. This song never ever gets old. Still makes me turn it up and dance my ass off. It makes me go back to my 14 year old self. I'm 53 now! Duran Duran is such a huge part of my lifes soundtrack. God bless them all.
Duran Duran forever defined whatvI think of as cool. I was never cool, but thanks to the boys, I know what it looks and sounds like.
These videos might seem "cringe" to today's teens and college students, but many of the visual techniques in DD video like this (the framing, coloring, montages, wipes, use of shadow/light, non-linear micro-speed editing, split screening, etc.) combined to create something entirely new at the time and were a massive influence on videos to come. Granted, Thriller took videos to even greater prominence, but these guys paved the way. And the music still holds up, video or no video.
It's a huge part of the Duran Duran experience! These videos made us fly to another world! Boy I miss the "new romanticism" of the 80s and I'm a fan of realism!
it's not cringe, most kids can recognize the technical talent that went into this video
They're works of art!
I love that you can actually hear the bass line.
Actually, I dunno if I can.
Hard to tell it from guitar, unless you see John playing.
@@resa.walters huh? It’s really easy.
@@resa.walters What? How can you not hear it?
Fabulous music ! The 80's were great ! How lucky have I been being young in those days.
these 80s videos are like a lost art form . Visually interesting .
Well said
Their videos influenced so many elements: music, fashion, art direction, etc.
Man, I was obsessed with this song the whole summer of 1983!
Thomas Patchen, I’m obsessed now.
I've been obsessed with it for nearly 40 years.
Nice!!
I was obsessed with this song and video in 1983 and I am STILL completely obsessed with this song and video in 2022 and I still have the same visceral reaction as I did in 1983. I'll NEVER get tired of hearing this track.
Me too.My mum got fed up of it!!🤣
Ahh when MTV was young...and played music.
Agreed!
And was a little bit racist…. Godley and Cream had to make that mechanical legs video thingy for Herbie Hancock because mtv didn’t want to play anything showing him.
john taylor is probably the most underated bassist ever. He is amazing.
This song is awesome! They achieved stuff with bass which others could not even think of.
Our school days were spent raving about the Fab Five from Birmingham. Got up at 3am to catch Duran Duran being played in Australian Radio.
I was there when this premiered on MTV...who remembers when vids were like movie premieres?
I remember it vividly.
"Is There Something I Should Know" - One of the first big hits by Duran Duran
Please, please take me back to the 80's!
I miss the 80's and Ronald Reagan
What do you miss, actually?
Dkenady353 right on. Reagan was the greatest.
Sorry, my flux capacitor is in the shop
Darryl Willett Please someone INVENT some APLICATION Of a. TIME MACHINE-SO WE CAN GO BACKKKKK
This song brings back a moment in my life that was so happy, 18 yrs old, parents alive and no problems, just enjoying life.
I was a kid 6 years old when Duran Duran hit it big. They summed up my uneasiness and also attracted me with their musical abilities like Simon Lebon's vocals and the layering of instruments. I have both funny and painful memories of the years when they were so popular, but I still love their music in fact now more than ever before since those days. Their videos and songs are breathtaking. It's hard to believe what has happened to music and how bad it has become in the mainstream. Nowadays if you want quality it's all independently done. Back then music was still young and it appeared to be growing fast rock music I mean we all know classical and jazz go back way longer not to mention folk traditions. I knew I was gay then. Think of how scary that is- 6 or 7 and you know all this fucking deep stuff about yourself and people around you and I think that was what eventually demolished my childhood. I was so completely different from other kids and yet we all on the subject of music could be united. Those days have gone. Now I'm pretty much a hermit and an outsider. Looking backwards I believe I knew it was gonna end up like that.
+Benjamin Blake Mitchner back in the days when we cared what was number one...todays chart stuff is bland made by faceless never will bes
Andy Morris
How true. And I'm always asking why??? The charts used to be full of creative and and inspiring music what happened for the sake of the world after the early 90s!!!!??? The last few with integrity are bands that now are ignored. Pearl Jam won't fill arenas anymore and we all know what happened to Kurt Cobain although he is a bit too depressing for me despite his very big talents. Duran Duran got usurped by other things and now all we have in the charts is sleazy slutty trashy shit!!!
+Benjamin Blake Mitchner A lot of today's music is angry and depressing. I'll always love the '80s and the music. I was in college and then starting my career. The soundtrack of my 20s. Yay!
Lisa Cunningham
I agree. The 80s and before it was much more positively written had much more real energy and excitement. It was until the late 90s/mid 90s a great world for music, but then the long downward slide happened and it was no returning from there it seems. Unfortunately.
+Benjamin Blake Mitchner I liked how men could embrace makeup and the androgynous look back then without being called gay every five minutes
IN 1983, this was a very rare instance (apart from The Beatles), where a song went immediately to #1 in the U.K. when it was released. I think The Jam had also achieved this.
An amazing song. I had always thought that the line: "You're about as easy as a nuclear war" was dumb. Now, I love it!
Simon Le Bon's beautiful face! They're all beautiful!
Lets be honest now.. Andy Taylor..uh-uh. Lol
simon was georgous, he's still alright now, just a little chubbyer
Simon was thin in this clip- no pudge at all.
ALL GORGEOUS!!!!
😍❤
The year was 1983, I was 17 yrs old and this video was playing on my tv when I got home from my summer job. I've been in love ever since.🎶❤️🎶
God this takes me back, still love it as much as I did when I was young, miss the 80's
I'm a 21st century kid born in 2002 heard one of their songs on my dad's radio now i'm hooked I wish I was born earlier this music is amazing
They returned with that all important third album!, and it was awesome! 🙌🙌🙌
Who else thinks John is too beautiful to touch?
Almost.
Kind of like precious art, you have handle so delicate, like he's fragile.
True, I used to cry over John T!! but I think Simon has aged better!!
Brings back so many happy memories, of a time where life seemed simpler, with no stress. Happy times. Great song❤💙
Still better than 99% of the pop songs on the radio at this very minute. A fucking classic! And hell, even the clothes aren't dated.
I would venture to say 100%
With this song started my love for this magnificent group. Still in my heart all these melodies from the 80's.
3:00 There is guitar in a background doin four sounds..... Masterpiece, sounds like Rush or Dream Theater :)
This is the first Duran Duran video I ever saw, and I've been hooked ever since.