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Duran Duran are an English new wave/synthpop band formed in Birmingham in 1978. They were a successful band of the 1980s and a leading band in the MTV-driven "Second British Invasion" of the US. Since the 1980s, they have placed 14 singles in the Top 10 of the UK Singles Chart and 21 in the Billboard Hot 100, and have sold over 70 million records.
While they were generally considered part of the New Romantic scene, along with bands such as Spandau Ballet, when they first emerged, the band later shed this image. The band worked with fashion designers to build a sharp and elegant image. The band has won a number of awards throughout their career: two Brit Awards including the 2004 award for Outstanding Contribution to Music, two Grammy Awards, and an MTV Video Music Award for Lifetime Achievement. They were also awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The band's controversial videos, which included partial nudity and suggestions of sexuality, became popular in the early 1980s on the then-new music video channel, MTV. Duran Duran were among the first bands to have their videos shot by professional directors with 35 mm film movie cameras, which gave their videos a much more polished look than was standard at the time. In 1984, the band were early innovators with video technology in their live stadium shows.
Duran Duran - Rio
Duran Duran - The Reflex
Duran Duran- A View To A Kill (Official Music Video)
Duran Duran - Ordinary World
Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf
Duran Duran - White Lines (Extended) (Official Music Video)
Duran Duran - Save A Prayer
Duran Duran - Come Undone
Duran Duran - Pressure Off (feat. Janelle Monáe and Nile Rodgers) [Official Video]
Duran Duran - Girls On Film
Actors: Tony Haygarth (actor), Russell Mulcahy (director), Milo O'Shea (actor), Arlene Phillips (miscellaneous crew), Stuart St. Paul (actor), Deborah Wakeham (actress), Simon Le Bon (actor), John Taylor (actor), Nick Rhodes (actor), Tim Waddell (editor), Nick Gillard (actor), Andy Taylor (actor), Robert Harman (miscellaneous crew), Roger Taylor (actor), Malcolm Dixon (actor),
Plot: Call my name, and I'll be there. Dr. Duran Duran escapes the punishment of the Matmos at the height of British rock group Duran Duran's 1980s popularity. Mistaking the cries of teenage girls at crowded concerts for devotees screaming his name, the Doctor makes his way to Earth so he can lead his faithful masses. Once he discovers the kids don't want an evil Doctor, he goes about trying to destroy the source of the real desires a rock concert taking place at the Oakland (Calif.) Colesium.
Genres: Musical, Sci-Fi,A stormy summer is rolling closer
Lighting up this holy smoker
And if this drinking could ease the thinking
I toast to my home truth with this glass
All rise, you promises broken
Call my lovers by their names
Lost hearts and words that are spoken to the wind which blows before the rain
Little pin-pricks, and how my ears bleed
On the bomb ticks that is my heartbeat
In every life-flash, in every car crash
I hear the silence waiting to fall
(Chorus)
For all I carry, are murdered secrets
The price of my blue star-eyed weakness
And so we travel, and we unravel
Towards the place where all loose ends go