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Simon le bon8/28/2023 “It was such a great experience for us and it was such a great opportunity. In 1985, the band recorded the title track of Roger Moore’s final James Bond film “A View to a Kill,” becoming the only Bond song to reach No. I was flying to Canada the next day to see my girlfriend, I took that cassette with me and I thought, ‘This is going to be something special.'” We did it in one night in central London and we came out and I just knew. “I think it was kind of like suddenly we had come to a point of doubt, self doubt, and it expressed that,” Le Bon said. 1 in the UK, becoming only the third song in music history to do so. ![]() The same year as their third album “Seven and the Ragged Tiger” (1983), Duran Duran also released the stand-alone single “Is There Something I Should Know?” It went straight to No. “It’s quite a sinister lyric, but it does have that ‘doo-doo-doo-doo’ and the ‘ha-ha-ha’ at the beginning … It has an incredible rhythm track. “It’s the wolf inside all of us,” Le Bon said. Their second album “Rio” (1982) featured several hit singles with “Say a Prayer,” “Rio” and their instant classic “Hungry Like the Wolf,” arguably their most recognizable tune. What a coincidence! You might even call it serendipitous.” We made our first video because we were told that they wanted something to show on the Australian chart show called ‘Countdown.’ … Around the same time, MTV started. “Lucky dogs we were! We had no idea that MTV was going to start. “We had a meteoric rise to success,” Le Bon said. Duran Duran exemplified the new-wave sound of the Second British Invasion. ![]() ![]() Their debut album “Duran Duran” (1981) arrived the same year as the founding of MTV. “I had heard through somebody at university where I was studying drama in theater arts that there was a band looking for a singer and I turned up and I was the missing link. “They were looking for a singer for ages,” Le Bon said. Business & Finance Click to expand menu.
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