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Hungry Like the Wolf: The Saturday Song That Ate America
Hungry Like the Wolf: The Saturday Song That Ate America In the summer of 1982, a cable television network barely a year old was playing a music video four times a day. It showed a pop star in a linen suit hacking through a Sri Lankan jungle, chasing a tiger-woman through temples and rivers while…
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Duran Duran: The Hearts Behind the Haircuts
They were the prettiest band in the world, and the press never let them forget it. For forty years, Duran Duran’s story has been told in yachts and videos and eyeliner — the Second British Invasion, the supermodels, the million-dollar videos. But the human story underneath is far more interesting, and far more moving. A…
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How Duran Duran Created “Rio”: The Album That Conquered the World
It is the definitive album of the New Romantic era — nine songs, forty minutes, and a painted cover of a woman with a cherry-red smile. Rio took Duran Duran from British pop hopefuls to global superstars, invented the modern music video as an art form, and gave the 1980s its soundtrack. But the album…
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The Untold Story of Duran Duran: The Fab Five Who Nearly Died — and Lived to Tell It
They were the prettiest band in the world, and for a while, the biggest. Duran Duran didn’t just ride the MTV wave — they practically invented it, turning the music video into cinema and themselves into the defining pin-ups of the 1980s. But behind the yachts, the supermodels, and the perfectly tousled hair lies a…