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Zaleski Annie - Duran Duran's Rio - Paperback
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Description: In the '80s the Birmingham England band Duran Duran became closely associated with new wave an idiosyncratic genre that dominated the decade's music and culture. No album represented this rip - it - up - and - start - again movement better than the act's breakthrough 1982 LP Rio. A cohesive album with a retro - futuristic sound influences include danceable disco tangy funk swaggering glam and Roxy Music's art - rock the full - length sold millions and spawned smashes such as " Hungry Like the Wolf" and the title track. However Rio wasn't a success everywhere at first; in fact the LP had to be buffed - up with remixes and reissued before it found an audience in America. The album was further buoyed by colorful music videos which established Duran Duran as leaders of an MTV - driven second British Invasion and the group's cutting - edge visual aesthetic. Via extensive new interviews with band members and other figures who helped Rio succeed this book explores how and why Rio became a landmark pop - rock album and examines how the LP was both a musical inspiration and a reflection of a musical cultural and technology zeitgeist.
Title: Duran Duran's Rio
Author(s): Zaleski Annie
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781501355189
Pages: 184 Pages
Publication Date: 5/6/2021
Series: 33 1/3
Category: Individual Composers & Musicians, Specific Bands & Groups
Description: In the '80s the Birmingham England band Duran Duran became closely associated with new wave an idiosyncratic genre that dominated the decade's music and culture. No album represented this rip - it - up - and - start - again movement better than the act's breakthrough 1982 LP Rio. A cohesive album with a retro - futuristic sound influences include danceable disco tangy funk swaggering glam and Roxy Music's art - rock the full - length sold millions and spawned smashes such as " Hungry Like the Wolf" and the title track. However Rio wasn't a success everywhere at first; in fact the LP had to be buffed - up with remixes and reissued before it found an audience in America. The album was further buoyed by colorful music videos which established Duran Duran as leaders of an MTV - driven second British Invasion and the group's cutting - edge visual aesthetic. Via extensive new interviews with band members and other figures who helped Rio succeed this book explores how and why Rio became a landmark pop - rock album and examines how the LP was both a musical inspiration and a reflection of a musical cultural and technology zeitgeist.
Title: Duran Duran's Rio
Author(s): Zaleski Annie
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781501355189
Pages: 184 Pages
Publication Date: 5/6/2021
Series: 33 1/3
Category: Individual Composers & Musicians, Specific Bands & Groups
