duran duran - planet earth
Back○○○ Recorded Red Bus Studios, London December 1980, writer Duran Duran & producer Colin Thurston
"Planet Earth" is the debut single by the pop/rock band Duran Duran, released on 2 February 1981. The song later appeared on the band's eponymous debut album Duran Duran, released in June, 1981.
The music video for the song was directed by future film director Russell Mulcahy, who would go on to direct a dozen more for the group.
Fairly primitive by the band's later standards, the video features the band (dressed in frilly, floppy New Romantic fashions) playing the song on a white stage tricked out with special effects to look like a platform made of ice or crystal. Interspersed with the performance are shots of the band members alongside the four elements. The video focused closely on the band's faces. The instrumental middle section features friends of the band from the Rum Runner nightclub dancing in their outlandish outfits. At the end of the video, singer Simon Le Bon leaps from the stage, caught in a freeze frame shot above an apparently bottomless abyss.
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"Planet Earth" begins with a slow synthesised sweep backed with electronic rhythm, but the real rhythm section of throbbing bass and crisp drums soon kick in. Muted guitar carries the up-and-down melodic hook of the song as the singer joins in.
The song was the first to explicitly acknowledge the fledgling New Romantic fashion movement, with the line "Like some New Romantic looking for the TV sound".
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Uploaded: October 23, 2006 at 7:56 pm
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Tags: duran planet earth 1980 rock london colin thurston russell mulcahy pop
Video Comments:
patkittycat (November 18, 2008 at 10:42 pm)
Tremenda experiencia! Lo único que me molestó fue el público que fue nada más por Maroon 5, se los respeto pero igual! Duran Duran se botó!
sag1101 (November 18, 2008 at 10:24 pm)
En CCS, yo tmabien fui!! Buenisimo!!
Fan de toda la vida de DD
Fan de toda la vida de DD
guisegretti (November 18, 2008 at 12:35 am)
DURAN DURAN in BRAZIL!
frankyputube (November 17, 2008 at 9:56 pm)
MTV when it was about the music video. Not the crap they show today. I feel sorry for you kids today. You are fed so much bullshit.
carito216 (November 17, 2008 at 6:11 pm)
I love Duran Duran they are the first band I ever seen in concert! wow I to wish I go back to 1980's great times.
patkittycat (November 16, 2008 at 9:21 am)
En vivo esta canción es tan espectacular... Tuve la oportunidad de vivirlo anoche, 5 estrellas!
incekt (November 16, 2008 at 2:07 am)
D^2 still destroy any of the manufactured boy bands of today.
Bumblebee303 (November 15, 2008 at 9:50 pm)
I love John's bass playing, he has a very unique style, and he is also very cute !!! :)
mtlgrad93 (November 15, 2008 at 2:14 pm)
it is a great song ya want another one "all she wants is"
Lanterna2008 (November 15, 2008 at 2:40 am)
Unbelievable bass line here. These guys codified the spirit of the 80s better than anyone. Gave birth to so much creativity the decade was dead by 1983.
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