![]() ![]() “I didn’t know what on earth would happen to it, whether it would be a hit or a flop or whatever, but I knew when I was listening to it: ‘Yep, this has got really strong songs on it, and this one just feels right.’” But when we finished the Rio album, I looked around and I knew we’d done something special,” recalls Duran Duran keyboardist and co-founder Nick Rhodes. “Obviously with every new album we make, we always have to believe in it and feel we’ve gone in the right direction. The album, impeccably produced by Bowie/Iggy engineer Colin Thurston, still holds up, from the primal pop of the jungle-love breakthrough single “Hungry Like the Wolf,” to the wistful, whistling one-night-stand ballad “Save a Prayer,” to the harrowing, noir-ish, David Lynch-approved outro “The Chauffeur.” And its sound has been replicated and revered by everyone from the Killers to Mark Ronson to new AFI/No Doubt supergroup Dreamcar. And the nightclub-meets-Club-Med classics contained within were as slick as a Vogue magazine cover or a shiny new lip gloss.īut Rio - which celebrates its 40th anniversary this week, just days after Duran Duran celebrated their long-overdue induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame - was never about style over substance. ![]() Was there ever any album that embodied all things grand and glamorous about the escapist, excessive, exotic, erotic, aspirational ’80s more than Duran Duran’s Rio? The vivid cover art alone - its pale Patrick Nagel creature, with her beguiling cherry ice-cream smile, a sort of Mona Lisa for the New Romantic Age - lent the album instant icon status. Duran Duran’s ‘Rio,’ released May 10, 1982.
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