Duran Duran: from left, Roger Taylor, Nick Rhodes, Simon Le Bon, Andy Taylor and John Taylor.
It looks simply ludicrous today ... worse still, on the album’s 35th anniversary. What were five limey Brummy boys doing strutting around on the mythical Sigiriya rock in Sri Lanka, and taking in the wind on a yacht in the Caribbean Sea in their coloured Antony Price suits? These celluloid snippets couldn’t be more mismatched.
But that’s where Rio was a trendsetter – it didn’t merely announce a genre-defining album, it defined a revolution, one which blasted through TV screens in all its technicolour splendour. Everything that looked and sounded 1980s was represented by the album. Its biggest singles, the title track, Hungry Like The Wolf, and the splendid Save A Prayer, formed the very foundation MTV built a platform on. The sense of mystic and carefree abandon displayed in those iconic videos have been etched in the vernacular of pop culture.
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