![]() ![]() Andy Taylor ended up hospitalized as a result of filming the video for “Save a Prayer.”Ī scene in the “Save a Prayer” video which involved Andy Taylor playing air guitar while perched on a branch turned into a nightmare when Taylor, as a result of having indulged in a bit too much alcohol, fell off the branch and went face-first into the water below. Capitol had to pull out all the stops.”ģ. It got three separate releases to radio, that song did. “The London office was really able to kick their asses and tell them, ‘Listen, you’ve got to make Duran Duran happen.’ I mean, “Hungry like the Wolf,” it was sent to radio three times. “We were fortunate in that we were signed to a British record label that had a subsidiary in the United States, which was Capitol,” said Taylor. Taylor described the video for “Hungry like the Wolf” as being the moment Duran Duran became a full-fledged pop phenomenon (“We went from being sort of like a club band, an underground band, to being, like, ‘Wow!’”), but he also acknowledged that they might never have made it in the States if their label hadn’t refused to give up on the song’s commercial potential. ![]() It took three tries before “Hungry like the Wolf” was fully embraced by American radio stations. Still, you may be wondering why didn’t get it a belated release after the band became a big deal over here, and although we don’t have a definitive answer for that, it’s probably because the band themselves never liked it very much: in a 2008 interview with The Herald Sun, John Taylor said of the song – and then repeated the sentiment – that it’s “not a favorite.”Ģ. ![]() “My Own Way” served that purpose handily: in addition to hitting #14 in the UK, it went top-20 in Ireland, was a top-10 hit in Australia, and actually topped the charts in Portugal.Īt the time, however, Duran Duran hadn’t yet had their first hit in the States at the time – that wouldn’t come until “Hungry like the Wolf” – which meant that there was no rush to get “My Own Way” into US record stores, and in the end, they ended up recording a new version for Rio, anyway. The first single released from Rio in the UK – “My Own Way,” which made it to #14 on the British charts – never saw release as a single in America.Īfter the success of “Girls on Film” in the UK, Duran Duran needed a stopgap-measure single to keep them fresh in the minds of music fans while recording the Rio album. ![]()
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