On Nov. 1, 1982, Duran Duran released "Rio" as a single in the U.K. The title track of the band's 1982 LP quickly became one of the Birmingham band's signature songs, a confident mission statement ...

In the spring of 1982, the British rock group Duran Duran were working on their second album at AIR Studios in London. At the time, the five-member band of Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes, John Taylor, Andy ...

Duran Duran's 1982 album Rio is one of the definitive pieces of '80s pop. The hit record features classic singles like the title track and "Hungry Like the Wolf" and the Rio album cover is instantly ...

I grew up with Marcie Hunt-Dinkel smiling at me. She was pinned to my wall as a teen. There are three copies of her picture on my living-room shelf today. Two more in a drawer below where the CDs are ...

Was there ever any album that embodied all things grand and glamorous about the escapist, excessive, exotic, erotic, aspirational ’80s more than Duran Duran’s Rio? The vivid cover art alone — its pale ...

Duran Duran released their second album, Rio, on May 10, 1982. The LP featured three future classics — “Hungry Like the Wolf,” “Rio” and “Save a Prayer” — but also moodier fare such as the aching ...

Duran Duran is a band that is stubbornly timeless. They are a musical conundrum: Are they admired for once being ahead of their time or because they are a band forever stuck in an era? The New Wave ...

Duran Duran are an English pop rock band formed in Birmingham in 1978 by keyboardist Nick Rhodes, guitarist John Taylor and ...

This past Saturday, one of the overwhelming bright spots on the Life Is Beautiful lineup was Duran Duran. It was the promise of seeing an iconic synth-pop group, and it was the promise of a Saturday ...