Meanwhile, guitarist Andy Taylor and bassist John Taylor joined with former Chic drummer Tony Thompson and vocalist Robert Palmer to form The Power Station, with an edgy but more commercial heavy pop-rock sound. Single “Election Day” became a Top 10 hit in America, follow-up “Goodbye is Forever” hit the Top 40, and subsequent singles “The Flame” and “The Promise” were modest hits in Europe. Simon LeBon, Nick Rhodes and Roger Taylor grouped as a side-project under the name Arcadia, and released the outstanding art-pop album “So Red the Rose” in November 1985. After the ginormously successful but exhausting 1984 world tour, the band decided to take a break as Duran Duran and ultimately split into two different side projects, both of which were generally successful (although nowhere approaching the levels of success enjoyed by the band collectively).
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Then in the summer of 1985 they scored another #1 single with A View to a Kill, the theme from the critically reviled but commercially successful James Bond movie starring Roger Moore, Christopher Walken and Grace Jones. “The Wild Boys,” the lone studio track from their live album “Arena,” hit #2 in late ’84 (thanks in part to a memorable video in which Simon LeBon is tied to a giant water-wheel). “Union of the Snake” and “New Moon on Monday” were both Top 10 hits, and they finally earned their first US #1 in the spring of ’84 with the third single, a Nile Rodgers remix of album track “The Reflex.” The hits kept coming. Duran Duran continued their hot streak in 1983 with third album “Seven And The Ragged Tiger,” released in November of that year. After the “Rio” album became a mega-smash, the band’s American label Capital Records reissued their self-titled debut in early ’83 with the addition of newly-recorded single “Is There Something I Should Know?” which became yet another monster hit. Over the next couple years, Duran Duran built on their success. They had the look, the sound, the talent, and the vehicle (via MTV, radio and magazines) to transmit their musical vision to teenage bedrooms all over the world. Duran Duran played to crowds of screaming fans around the world, and while some critics at the time dismissed them as mere cheap imitators of their influences and a case of style over substance, their early albums are now widely regarded as landmark recordings of the early 80s. The photogenic Simon LeBon (vocals), Nick Rhodes (Keyboards) and the three unrelated Taylors (John on bass, Andy on guitar, and Roger on drums) were on the covers of all the magazines, on nearly perpetual MTV rotation and their hits saturated the radio waves. At the peak of their success the levels of hysteria surrounding them rivaled Beatlemania. “Rio,” “Hungry Like the Wolf” and “Save a Prayer” were all major hits, and suddenly the band was everywhere. The band’s 1981 self-titled debut album and early singles like “Planet Earth,” “Carless Memories” and “Girls on Film” generated significant buzz and some chart success in their native UK, but it was their second album, 1982’s “Rio,” that made Duran Duran worldwide superstars. Five sexy and stylish Brits who were able to distill influences like Ultravox, Japan, David Bowie and Roxy Music into ultra-commercial new wave/pop anthems that, with the help of their big-budget, glamorous videos, appealed to a massive audience worldwide. They had all the ingredients for success and were a perfect partner for the fledgling music network. Duran Duran was one of the most successful bands to emerge from the early MTV era.
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