30 Years Ago.. Duran Duran were back! If you turned on the lights, the TV, or the radio, you could not escape the ghost of their haunting ballad, “Ordinary World.”

 

30 Years Ago… Duran Duran - long suspected to have disappeared down the dumper - were back! Back!! BACK!!! If you turned on the lights, the TV, or the radio, you could not escape the ghost of their haunting ballad, “Ordinary World.”


It looked as though the Duranies had grown up & settled down. That’s a difficult thing to do when you are a band defined by boundless quantities of youthful energy & amazing hair & sex appeal. How are you ever supposed to settle down from that?!?

If you are Duran Duran you do it with an album called, “The Wedding Album”, & sing about finding an “Ordinary World.”

I should probably point out, this is not what “Ordinary World” is about, it’s about the death of a friend.

Somethings hadn’t changed though. Their lyrics were still mystifying.

Passion or coincidence once prompted you to say "Pride will tear us both apart"”

Also: their hair – although no longer gravity-defying – was still quite amazing.

 “Ordinary World” is an 8

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