Duran Duran

Duran Duran is an electronic pop/rock band, notable for a long series of catchy, synthesizer-driven hit singles and vivid music videos. They were part of the New Wave music explosion in the early 1980s, as well as a leading band in the MTV-driven Second British Invasion of the United States. They are still often identified as an Eighties band despite continuous recording over their twenty-plus year history. The band has sold over 70 million records, and has had eighteen singles in the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and thirty in the Top 40 of the UK Singles Chart, including "Rio", "Hungry Like The Wolf", "Save A Prayer", "Is There Something I Should Know", "The Reflex" and the James Bond theme "A View To A Kill" in the 1980s, "Ordinary World" and "Come Undone" in the early 1990s, and "Sunrise" and "What Happens Tomorrow" in the 2000s.

References

• Burns, Gary. "Music Television", The Museum of Broadcast Communications
• Carver, John. (1983) Duran Duran – An Independent Story in Words and Pictures, Anabas Publishing Ltd., UK (ISBN 1580990018)
• David, Maria. (1984) Duran Duran, Colour Library Books Ltd, UK (ISBN 0862832519, ISBN 0517460122)
• De Graaf, Kaspar and Garret, Malcolm. (1982) Duran Duran: Their Story, Cherry Lane Books, UK (ISBN 0862761719)
• Edwards, Mark. (1995) "A Reputation For Endurance; Duran Duran", The Times of London, March 26, 1995.
• Flans, Robyn. (1984) Inside Duran Duran, Starbooks/Signet Special, Creskill, NJ USA (ISBN 0451820967)
• Gaiman, Neil. (1984) Duran Duran: The First Four Years of the Fab Five, Proteus Publishing (ISBN 0862762596)
• Green, Jo-Anne. "Your Mission, Barbarella: Find Duran Duran." Goldmine, Volume 24 Issue 456 (January 16, 1998)
• Martin, Susan. Duran Duran, Wanderer Books, UK, 1984 (ISBN 0671530992)
• O'Connell, John. "Old Romantics." Sunday Herald, April 11, 2004
• Pattenden, Sian. "Blame It On Rio." Deluxe Magazine, December 1998 (pp 125-129)
• The Duran Duran Timeline - a chronology of the band's history