The songs " Hungry Like the Wolf" and " Rio" featured cinematic music videos directed by Australian film maker Russell Mulcahy and became two of their biggest hits. The band's breakthrough second album was Rio (1982), a worldwide hit. The band's first major hit was " Girls on Film" (1981), from their self-titled debut album, the popularity of which was enhanced by a controversial music video. By 1984, the band had achieved levels of fame similar to Beatlemania. Įmerging as members of the New Romantic scene, Duran Duran were innovators of the music video and a leading band in the MTV-driven Second British Invasion of the US in the 1980s. With the addition of drummer Roger Taylor the following year, the band went through numerous personnel changes before May 1980, when they settled on their most famous line-up by adding guitarist Andy Taylor and lead vocalist Simon Le Bon. Duran Duran ( / dj ʊ ˌ r æ n dj ʊ ˈ r æ n/) are an English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1978 by singer and bassist Stephen Duffy, keyboardist Nick Rhodes and guitarist/bassist John Taylor.
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