Money well spent? Well, you know, actually, yes, it isn’t half as bad as I had been led to believe, and some of the tracks are really rather good. So I got me a copy sent through, all of £3 plus p&p, which currently equates to about $3. I fully confess I had never listened to Thank You until researching this piece. Today we’re thinking it about time this much derided potpourri of styles and statements had a good seeing to, via the retrospectroscope. At the time Rolling Stone described many of the selections as “stunningly wrong headed.” Ouch. The critics gave Thank You a fairly uniform hammering, with the legacy casting a long shadow over the rest of their career: Q magazine, in 2006, called it the worst record of all time, having had 11 years to make that considered opinion. The singles did less well, failing to make any stateside impression and only one of them bruising, just, their homeland top 20. To be fair, it didn’t actually fare that badly in the charts, reaching the top 20 in both the UK and the US. No charge.With Duran Duran about to be indicted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, what better time to re-examine Thank You, their eighth full-length offering, released in 1995 to a blaze of apathy. (We’ll still throw in the video for one of those tracks, though. But that, of course, is a story for another time. It just went on without him for the better part of a decade and a half.except for those couple of tracks on Thank You, that is. Well, he was right about one thing, anyway: the band didn’t break up. It controls our lives, whether we like it or not." We may do things outside the group, but Duran Duran is the most important thing in our lives. "A lot of people think this is the end of the band, but that's rubbish-we start a new album in September. "Even my mum's worried now (about the band breaking up): every time she rings up she says, 'Are you all going to split up?'" Roger laughs. 1, People did an interview with the members of Duran Duran in conjunction with the filming of the video for “A View to a Kill,” and Roger’s comments turned out to be pretty ironic in retrospect: He was working with us as virtually a sixth member of the group, but not really getting on our backs at all.”Īs far as Andy and Roger decamping from the band’s lineup for the better part of 15 years not long after the single hit No. He has a great way of working brilliant chord arrangements. “And that's why it happened so quickly because he was able to separate the good ideas from the bad ones, and he arranged them. “He didn't really come up with any of the basic musical ideas, (but) he heard what we came up with and he put them into an order,” Le Bon said. In Geoff Leonard’s Bond by Barry: The Story of James Bond Music, Simon Le Bon praised the experience of working with the composer. Barry, an Oscar-winning film composer on his 10th of 11 assignments in the world of 007. Broccoli, the bassist got a few drinks in him, approached Broccoli, and asked, “When are you going to get someone decent to do one of your theme songs?” Yes, it sounds like something out of a bad movie, but Taylor’s confirmed the story as being true, and although it wasn’t exactly the most favorable first encounter, it kicked off a discussion which soon led to the band meeting with the aforementioned Mr. Good thing, too, since Taylor was the big reason the band got the gig in the first place: after finding himself at a party with longtime Bond producer Albert R. There’s certain criteria that have to be fulfilled. You want it to be completely state of the art, but it’s always going to have the honking great radiator grill on the front. But Bond songs have to be big songs, don’t they? They have to have the grandiosity. It was a big deal, and it was a big song. “To see your song up there.I mean, I didn’t like the film, but I’ll tell you, when those titles came up.Maurice Binder was the guy who did all the early James Bond title sequences, and if I wanted to see something to do with the song, rather than watch that horrible video on the Eiffel Tower, I’d take Maurice Binder’s title sequence any day. “We were just so lucky to work with John Barry,” Taylor continued in that interview. Still, as bassist John Taylor said to The A.V. As it happens, the film’s theme song – cleverly titled “A View to a Kill” – was also a concluding chapter in another fashion: it was the last gasp of the so-called “Fab Five” lineup of Duran Duran, who wouldn’t find their way into a recording studio again for more than a decade and a half, with drummer Roger Taylor and guitarist Andy Taylor exiting the band somewhere between their performance at Live Aid and the recording of their 1986 album, Notorious.
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