These were cinematic features that stuck with me, and as familiar as a song like Save a Prayer is to me, that is how familiar the Sri Lanka adventure video is, as well. Quite possibly the reason I love music videos so much, Duran Duran helped to shape what MTV once was (when they still played music on the network) and also what music videos could be, mini-films, filled with locations and plot and colorful characters. Here is something I wrote about the impact back in 2012: There were also scenes on the beaches around the island.įor me, the Video, along with others from the Rio Album, added to my young yearning for travel. The scenes were filmed among Sigiriya, the ancient rock fortress, and among the ruins of Polonnaruwa, a Buddhist temple. The Video to “Save a Prayer” was directed by Russell Mulcahy in Sri Lanka. Indie favorite, and a favorite band at Lyriquediscorde, Arctic Monkeys paid Lyrical homage to “Save a Prayer” in their Song “Teddy Picker” with the line “I don’t want your prayer, save it for the morning after.” “Teddy Picker” by Arctic Monkeys Le Bon has been quoted as saying that the song’s chorus structure is based on Gordon Lightfoot’s “If You Could Read My Mind.” Do you hear it? “If You Could Read My Mind” by Gordon Lightfoot They are said to be about a chance meeting between two people that turns into a one-night stand. Simon Le Bon, Duran Duran’s lead singer, wrote the Lyrics to “Save a Prayer” while the band was on tour. It reached #16 on the Billboard Hot 100, and yes, I have a copy of that one, too. As a teenager, I was a Duranie in the truest sense of the word and was a completest when it came to their Music, and other memorabilia.įinally, at the start of 1985, a Single for “Save a Prayer” was released in the U.S. I remember having to hunt down the import 45″, as well as the 12 inch Single, finding one at a Swap Meet that had an Import Vinyl booth, and the other at Tower Records. It hit #2 on the UK Singles Chart at its highest.Īlthough MTV played the Video to the Song continuously in the United States, it was never released stateside as a Single. At the time of release, it became Duran Duran’s highest ranking Song in the UK. It was also the sixth Single released by the band, and the third to be released from the Album. and earned plenty of airplay on MTV with a glossy video that featured the band jet-setting around the atmospheric locale of Sri Lanka.“Save a Prayer” is Track eight on Duran Duran’s 1982 Album Rio. The result was a stylish mood-piece that became a number two hit in the U.K. Duran Duran's recording places an emphasis on Nick Rhodes' swirling, minimalist synth lines and Simon LeBon's pained vocals as the rhythm section holds down a steady but subdued beat, with Andy Taylor adding a few searing bursts of electric guitar during the chorus. The lyrics revolve around a chance meeting between two people that flares into a love affair but ends all too soon: "Some people call it a one night stand/But we can call it paradise/Don't say a prayer for me now/Save it 'til the morning after." The music maintains the stormily romantic quality of the lyric by combining meditative verses with an aching chorus that swells and ebbs in a way that perfectly captures the song's heartbreak. One of the finest, perhaps the finest, was "Save a Prayer," a lilting epic from Rio that has a special place in the heart of every Duran Duran fanatic. but they were also capable of making lush ballads guaranteed to make their fan base swoon. Dance-friendly items like "Rio" and "Hungry Like The Wolf" gave Duran Duran their chart breakthrough in the U.S.
0 kommentar(er)
