All five albums are due for release on July 19 via Warner Music and can be pre-ordered here. These albums have long been out of print and this is the first time the collection will be available in ...
On Nov. 1, 1982, Duran Duran released "Rio" as a single in the U.K. The title track of the band's 1982 LP quickly became one of the Birmingham band's signature songs, a confident mission statement ...
In the spring of 1982, the British rock group Duran Duran were working on their second album at AIR Studios in London. At the time, the five-member band of Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes, John Taylor, Andy ...
Duran Duran’s ‘Rio,’ released May 10, 1982. For bubblegum-card-carrying members of the original MTV generation, Rio will forever be inextricably linked with sherbet-colored music video scenes of sexy ...
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On May 10, 1982, Duran Duran released their second album, Rio. Issued less than a year after the Birmingham quintet's self-titled debut, Rio was a testament to the band's chemistry and ambition, and ...
In terms of musicianship and songwriting the members of Duran were frighteningly evolved for their age. Prominent among them ...
Was there ever any album that embodied all things grand and glamorous about the escapist, excessive, exotic, erotic, aspirational ’80s more than Duran Duran’s Rio? The vivid cover art alone — its pale ...