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Title: Duran Duran's Rio
Condition: New
Author: Annie Zaleski
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 150135518X
EAN: 9781501355189
ISBN: 9781501355189
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic USA
Genre: Music Dance & Theatre
Release Date: 01/07/2021
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.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 165mm
Item Length: 121mm
Item Weight: 158g
Book Series: 33 1/3
Release Year: 2021

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