When this Duran Duran song was first released in 1984, it was the opening drum beat that infectiously caught my ear. Recognized as a "boy band", the five members of Duran Duran thought otherwise on the premise that they played and wrote their own music. Produced by Nile Rodgers, the song was the only studio track on the live album Arena.
Singer Simon Le Bon, strapped to the spinning windmill which dunked his head beneath the water with each revolution (@ 0:27 sec), supposedly found himself in real difficulty when the windmill stopped with his head underwater. He was given a tube to breathe through and the issue was promptly fixed, but the British tabloids had a field day exaggerating Le Bon's "near death experience".
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One of the few 80's pop bands that I actually could tolerate. They were actually talented, or appeared to be. Good, campy, 80's song. However, I would absolutely disagree that they were a "boy band".
Me remembers the all the lassies these lads stamped
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