Duran Duran – New Moon On Monday
On January 23, 1984, now forty years ago, one of the strangest and most bizarre songs of the ’80s was released. But if you think that the authors were an equally bizarre group, you are wrong, because we are talking about the absolute symbols of the 80s in Europe: Duran Duran.
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Posted in 1982, 1982 October, November, December, United Kingdom
Duran Duran – Rio
November 1, 1982 was a very important day for the pop musical iconography of the 80s, thanks to the release of a single and a video that really marked the culture and imagination of us teenagers of the time, and we are of course talking about Duran Duran’s Rio.
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Duran Duran – Notorious
October 20, 1986 was a highly anticipated day in the teen pop world. A new song was being broadcast on the radio with the related video, announced for days. Strange feeling, very high expectations also because we had been waiting for a long time,
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Duran Duran – Meet El Presidente
#quotefromthe80s
You may not like it
You may not be scared,
But hell has no fury
Like a young girl’s ego
#DuranDuran #MeetElPresidente
The president is always a somewhat mythological figure,
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Duran Duran – The Wild Boys
#quotefromthe80s
They tried to tame you, looks like they’ll try again
Wild boys never lose it
Wild boys never chose this way
Wild boys never close your eyes
Wild boys always shine
#DuranDuran #TheWildBoys
The golden period of the 1980s,
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Posted in 1981, 1981 April, May, June, United Kingdom
Duran Duran – Careless Memories
We know that songs make us travel through time, but this is a special song. Not only because it takes us forty years back (I don’t want to think about it!), but also because this song has really lived twice!
We are in 1981.
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Duran Duran – All she wants is
It definitely takes courage to release a single on the day before Christmas, especially if the song has nothing to do with the Christmas mood, and actually is as far as possible from it. But Duran Duran did this as well: it was December 24,
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Posted in 1982, 1982 July, August, September, United Kingdom
Duran Duran – Save A Prayer
In August 1982, in the top period of Summer loves and star-lit beach nights, the release of the single and video of “Save a prayer” seemed to mark the highest possible point of romance for teenagers. After the release of “My Own Way”
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Posted in 1981, 1981 July, August, September, United Kingdom
Duran Duran – Girls On Film
July 13th has always been an important day for the 80s music, maybe because of summer, or maybe the heat. In 1985 on that day there was the famous Live Aid, the highest point of the 80s, the watershed between the first and second parts of this fantastic decade.
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