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Duran Duran (1981 album), the Glossary

Duran Duran is the debut studio album by the English pop rock band Duran Duran, released on 15June 1981 through EMI.^[1]

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Albums produced by Colin Thurston
Duran Duran albums

Abbey Road Studios

Abbey Road Studios (formerly EMI Recording Studios) is a music recording studio at 3 Abbey Road, St John's Wood, City of Westminster, London.

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AC/DC

AC/DC are an Australian rock band formed in 1973.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.

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André Deutsch

André Deutsch (15 November 1917 – 11 April 2000) was a Hungarian-born British publisher who founded an eponymous publishing company in 1951.

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Androgyny

Androgyny is the possession of both masculine and feminine characteristics.

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Andy Taylor (guitarist)

Andrew James Taylor (born 16 February 1961) is an English guitarist, best known as a former member of Duran Duran and the Power Station.

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Angst

Angst is fear or anxiety (anguish is its Latinate equivalent, and the words anxious and anxiety are of similar origin).

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Annie Zaleski

Annie Zaleski is an American music journalist and writer.

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Associação Fonográfica Portuguesa

The Associação Fonográfica Portuguesa (AFP; English: Portuguese Phonographic Association) is the recording industry association of the major labels in Portugal.

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Associated Independent Recording

Associated Independent Recording (AIR) is an independent recording company founded in London in 1965 by record producers George Martin, John Burgess, Ron Richards, and Peter Sullivan.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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BBC Radio 1

BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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Billboard charts

The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of songs and albums in the United States and elsewhere.

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Blondie (band)

Blondie is an American rock band formed in New York City in 1974 by singer Debbie Harry and guitarist Chris Stein.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

Bloomsbury Publishing plc is a British worldwide publishing house of fiction and non-fiction.

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Brian Eno

Brian Peter George Jean-Baptiste de la Salle Eno (born 15 May 1948), also mononymously known as Eno, is an English musician, songwriter, record producer and visual artist.

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British Phonographic Industry

British Phonographic Industry (BPI) is the British recorded music industry's Trade association.

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Buoy

A buoy is a floating device that can have many purposes.

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Call Me (Blondie song)

"Call Me" is a song by the American new wave band Blondie and the theme to the 1980 film American Gigolo.

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Capitol Records, LLC (known legally as Capitol Records, Inc. until 2007), and simply known as Capitol, is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group through its Capitol Music Group imprint.

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Careless Memories

"Careless Memories" is the second single by the English new wave band Duran Duran, released on 20 April 1981.

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Carlos Alomar

Carlos Alomar (born 7 May 1951) is a Puerto Rican guitarist.

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Cause célèbre

A cause célèbre (pl. causes célèbres, pronounced like the singular) is an issue or incident arousing widespread controversy, outside campaigning, and heated public debate.

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Chic (band)

Chic (stylized CHIC), currently called Nile Rodgers & Chic, is an American disco band that was formed in 1972 by guitarist Nile Rodgers and bassist Bernard Edwards.

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Chipping Norton Recording Studios

Chipping Norton Recording Studios was a residential recording studio in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England, which operated from 1971 until October 1999.

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Chord progression

In a musical composition, a chord progression or harmonic progression (informally chord changes, used as a plural) is a succession of chords.

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Colin Thurston

Colin Thurston (13 July 1947 – 15 January 2007) was an English recording engineer and record producer.

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Courtney Taylor-Taylor

Courtney A. Taylor (born July 20, 1967), known as Courtney Taylor-Taylor, is an American singer-songwriter from Portland, Oregon.

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Cover band

A cover band (or covers band) is a band that plays songs recorded by someone else, sometimes mimicking the original as accurately as possible, and sometimes re-interpreting or changing the original.

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Dance music

Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing.

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David Bowie

David Robert Jones (8 January 194710 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer, songwriter, musician, and actor.

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Disco

Disco is a genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the late 1960s from the United States' urban nightlife scene.

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Duran Duran

Duran Duran are an English pop rock band formed in Birmingham in 1978 by singer Stephen Duffy, keyboardist Nick Rhodes and guitarist/bassist John Taylor.

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DVD

The DVD (common abbreviation for digital video disc or digital versatile disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format.

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Dynamic range compression

Dynamic range compression (DRC) or simply compression is an audio signal processing operation that reduces the volume of loud sounds or amplifies quiet sounds, thus reducing or compressing an audio signal's dynamic range.

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Edinburgh University Press

Edinburgh University Press is a scholarly publisher of academic books and journals, based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Electronic music

Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation.

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EMI

EMI Group Limited (formerly EMI Group plc until 2007; originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries, also referred to as EMI Records or simply EMI) was a British transnational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London.

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EMI Records

EMI Records (formerly EMI Records Ltd.) is a British multinational record label owned by Universal Music Group.

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Extended play

An Extended Play (EP) is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single but fewer than an album or LP record.

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Extraterrestrial life, alien life, or colloquially simply aliens, is life which does not originate from Earth.

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Fame (David Bowie song)

"Fame" is a song by the English singer-songwriter David Bowie.

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Foghorn

A foghorn or fog signal is a device that uses sound to warn vehicles of navigational hazards such as rocky coastlines, or boats of the presence of other vessels, in foggy conditions.

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Four on the floor (music)

Four-on-the-floor (or four-to-the-floor) is a rhythm used primarily in dance genres such as disco and electronic dance music.

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Future Past (Duran Duran album)

Future Past is the fifteenth studio album by English rock band Duran Duran, released on 22 October 2021. Duran Duran (1981 album) and Future Past (Duran Duran album) are Duran Duran albums.

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Gallup, Inc.

Gallup, Inc. is an American multinational analytics and advisory company based in Washington, D.C. Founded by George Gallup in 1935, the company became known for its public opinion polls conducted worldwide.

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Gary Numan

Gary Anthony James Webb (born 8 March 1958), known professionally as Gary Numan, is an English musician.

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George Davis (robber)

George Davis (born 1941) is an armed robber, born in Bletchley, England and active in England.

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Giorgio Moroder

Giovanni Giorgio Moroder (born 26 April 1940) is an Italian composer and music producer.

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Girls on Film

"Girls on Film" is the third single by English new wave band Duran Duran, released on 13 July 1981.

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Godley & Creme

Godley & Creme were an English rock duo formally established in Manchester in 1977 by Kevin Godley and Lol Creme.

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Grand Central Publishing

Grand Central Publishing is a book publishing imprint of Hachette Book Group, originally established in 1970 as Warner Books when Kinney National Company acquired the Paperback Library.

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Guitar synthesizer

A guitar synthesizer is any one of a number of musical instrument systems that allow a guitarist to access synthesizer capabilities.

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Hachette Books

Hachette Books, formerly Hyperion Books, is a general-interest book imprint of the Perseus Books Group, which is a division of Hachette Book Group and ultimately a part of Lagardère Group.

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Harvest Records

Harvest Records is a British-American record label belonging to Capitol Music Group, originally created by EMI in 1969.

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Hazel O'Connor

Hazel Thereasa O'Connor (born 16 May 1954) is a British singer-songwriter and actress.

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Heaven 17

Heaven 17 are an English synth-pop band formed in Sheffield in 1980.

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Iggy Pop

James Newell Osterberg Jr. (born April 21, 1947), known professionally as Iggy Pop, is an American singer, musician, songwriter, actor and radio broadcaster.

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Imgur

Imgur (stylized as imgur) is an American online image sharing and image hosting service with a focus on social gossip that was founded by Alan Schaaf in 2009.

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Irony

Irony, in its broadest sense, is the juxtaposition of what on the surface appears to be the case and what is actually the case or to be expected.

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Is There Something I Should Know?

"Is There Something I Should Know?" is the eighth single by English new wave band Duran Duran, released on 14 March 1983.

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Japan (band)

Japan were an English new wave band formed in 1974 in Catford, South London by David Sylvian (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Steve Jansen (drums) and Mick Karn (bass guitar), joined the following year by Richard Barbieri (keyboards) and Rob Dean (lead guitar).

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Jeff Beck

Geoffrey Arnold Beck (24 June 194410 January 2023) was an English guitarist.

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Jimmy Page

James Patrick Page (born 9 January 1944) is an English musician and producer who achieved international success as the guitarist and founder of the rock band Led Zeppelin.

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John Lennon

John Winston Ono Lennon (born John Winston Lennon; 9 October 19408 December 1980) was an English singer, songwriter and musician.

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John Sykes (American businessman)

John Sykes (born May 14, 1955) is an American entertainment executive and the President of Entertainment Enterprises for iHeartMedia since 2011.

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John Taylor (bass guitarist)

Nigel John Taylor (born 20 June 1960) is a British musician who is best known as the bass guitarist for new wave band Duran Duran, of which he was a founding member.

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Kantar Group

Kantar Group Ltd. is an international market research company based in London, England.

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Kent Music Report

The Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums which was compiled by music historian David Kent from May 1974 through to January 1999.

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Kraftwerk

Kraftwerk ("power plant") are a German electronic band formed in Düsseldorf in 1970 by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider.

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Lou Reed

Lewis Allan Reed (March 2, 1942October 27, 2013) was an American musician and songwriter.

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Magazine (band)

Magazine were a British rock band formed in 1977 in Manchester in England by singer Howard Devoto and guitarist John McGeoch.

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Malcolm Garrett

Malcolm Leslie Garrett (born 1956) is a British graphic designer, and Creative Director of Images&Co, a communications design consultancy based in London, UK.

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Martyn Ware

Martyn Ware (born 19 May 1956) is an English musician, composer, arranger, record producer, and music programmer.

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Melody Maker

Melody Maker was a British weekly music magazine, one of the world's earliest music weeklies; according to its publisher, IPC Media, the earliest.

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Midge Ure

James "Midge" Ure (born 10 October 1953) is a Scottish musician, singer-songwriter and record producer.

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MTV

MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable television channel.

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Multi-Coloured Swap Shop

Multi-Coloured Swap Shop, more commonly known simply as Swap Shop, is a British children's television series that aired on BBC1 from 2 October 1976 to 27 March 1982.

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Music video

A music video is a video that integrates a song or an album with imagery that is produced for promotional or musical artistic purposes.

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Music Week

Music Week is a trade publication for the UK record industry distributed via a website and a monthly print magazine.

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New Romantic

New Romantic was an underground subculture movement that originated in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s.

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New wave music

New wave is a music genre that encompasses pop-oriented styles from the 1970s through the 1980s.

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Nick Rhodes

Nick Rhodes (born Nicholas James Bates, 8 June 1962) is an English keyboardist and producer, best known as a founding member and the keyboardist of the band Duran Duran.

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Nikon

() is an optics and photographic equipment manufacturer headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

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NME

New Musical Express (NME) is a British music, film, gaming, and culture website and brand.

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Omnibus Press

Omnibus Press is a publisher of music-related books.

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Overdubbing

Overdubbing (also known as layering) is a technique used in audio recording in which audio tracks that have been pre-recorded are then played back and monitored, while simultaneously recording new, doubled, or augmented tracks onto one or more available tracks of a digital audio workstation (DAW) or tape recorder.

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Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon) is a ceremonial county in South East England.

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Pauline Murray

Pauline Murray (born 8 March 1958) is best known as the lead vocalist of the punk rock band Penetration, originally formed in 1976.

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Penguin Random House

Penguin Random House LLC is a British-American multinational conglomerate publishing company formed on July 1, 2013, with the merger of Penguin Books and Random House.

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Phonogram Inc.

Phonogram Incorporated was started in 1970 as a successor to Philips Phonographic Industries, a unit of the Grammophon-Philips Group (GPG), a joint venture of Philips N.V. of the Netherlands and Siemens A.G. of Germany.

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Planet Earth (Duran Duran song)

"Planet Earth" is the debut single by the English new wave band Duran Duran, released on 2 February 1981.

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Pop art

Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the United Kingdom and the United States during the mid- to late-1950s.

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.

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Pop rock

Pop rock (also typeset as pop/rock) is a fusion genre and form of rock music characterized by a strong commercial appeal, with more emphasis on professional songwriting and recording craft, and less emphasis on attitude than standard rock music.

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Post-punk

Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad genre of music that emerged in 1977 in the wake of punk rock.

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Punk rock

Punk rock (also known as simply punk) is a music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s.

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Quiet Life

Quiet Life is the third studio album by English new wave band Japan, first released on 17 November 1979 in Canada by record label Hansa (it would be released in the UK some weeks later).

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Record Mirror

Record Mirror was a British weekly music newspaper published between 1954 and 1991, aimed at pop fans and record collectors.

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Recorded Music NZ

Recorded Music NZ (formerly the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand (RIANZ)) is a non-profit trade association of record producers, distributors and recording artists who sell recorded music in New Zealand.

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Rio (Duran Duran album)

Rio is the second studio album by the English pop rock band Duran Duran, released on 10May 1982 through EMI. Duran Duran (1981 album) and Rio (Duran Duran album) are albums produced by Colin Thurston, Duran Duran albums and EMI Records albums.

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Rock music

Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles from the mid-1960s, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom.

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Roger Taylor (Duran Duran drummer)

Roger Andrew Taylor (born 26 April 1960) is an English musician, best known as the drummer of the new wave band Duran Duran from their inception until 1985, and again from 2001 onwards.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture.

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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Roxy Music

Roxy Music are an English rock band formed in 1970 by lead vocalist and principal songwriter Bryan Ferry and bassist Graham Simpson.

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Rum Runner (nightclub)

The Rum Runner was a nightclub on Broad Street, Birmingham.

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Russell Mulcahy

Russell Mulcahy (born 23 June 1953) is an Australian director of film, television, and music videos.

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Sasquatch Books

Sasquatch Books LLC is an American book publishing company based in Seattle, Washington.

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Sentimental ballad

A sentimental ballad is an emotional style of music that often deals with romantic and intimate relationships, and to a lesser extent, loneliness, death, war, drug abuse, politics and religion, usually in a poignant but solemn manner.

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Seven and the Ragged Tiger

Seven and the Ragged Tiger is the third studio album by the English rock band Duran Duran, released on 21 November 1983 through EMI and Capitol Records. Duran Duran (1981 album) and Seven and the Ragged Tiger are Duran Duran albums and EMI Records albums.

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Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster LLC is an American publishing company owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.

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Simon Le Bon

Simon John Charles Le Bon (born 27 October 1958) is a British singer.

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Single (music)

In music, a single is a type of release of a song recording of fewer tracks than an album or LP record, typically one or two tracks.

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Slapping (music)

Slapping and popping are ways to produce percussive sounds on a stringed instrument.

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Smash Hits

Smash Hits was a British music magazine aimed at young adults, originally published by EMAP.

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Sounds (magazine)

Sounds was a UK weekly pop/rock music newspaper, published from 10 October 1970 to 6 April 1991.

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Spandau Ballet

Spandau Ballet were an English pop band formed in Islington, London, in 1979.

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Spin Alternative Record Guide

The Spin Alternative Record Guide is a music reference book compiled by the American music magazine Spin and published in 1995 by Vintage Books.

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St Ives, New South Wales

St Ives is a suburb on the Upper North Shore of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia 18 kilometres north of the Sydney Central Business District in the local government area of Ku-ring-gai Council.

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Stephen Davis (music journalist)

Stephen Davis is an American music journalist.

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Stephen Duffy

Stephen Anthony James Duffy (born 30 May 1960 in Alum Rock, Warwickshire, England) is an English musician, singer, and songwriter.

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Synth-pop

Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop) is a music genre that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument.

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Synthesizer

A synthesizer (also synthesiser, or simply synth) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals.

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Texture (music)

In music, texture is how the tempo, melodic, and harmonic materials are combined in a musical composition, determining the overall quality of the sound in a piece.

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The Dandy Warhols

The Dandy Warhols are an American psychedelic/alternative rock band, formed in Portland, Oregon, in 1994 by singer-guitarist Courtney Taylor-Taylor and guitarist Peter Holmström.

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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

The Encyclopedia of Popular Music is an encyclopedia created in 1989 by Colin Larkin.

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The Face (magazine)

The Face is a British music, fashion, and culture monthly magazine originally published from 1980 to 2004, and relaunched in 2019.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Human League

The Human League is an English synth-pop band formed in Sheffield in 1977.

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The Old Grey Whistle Test

The Old Grey Whistle Test (sometimes abbreviated to Whistle Test or OGWT) is a British television music show.

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The Rolling Stone Album Guide

The Rolling Stone Album Guide, previously known as The Rolling Stone Record Guide, is a book that contains professional music reviews written and edited by staff members from Rolling Stone magazine.

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Top of the Pops

Top of the Pops (TOTP) is a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and broadcast weekly between 1January 1964 and 30 July 2006.

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Townsquare Media, Inc. (formerly Regent Communications until 2010) is an American radio network and media company based in Purchase, New York.

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Trouser Press

Trouser Press was a rock and roll magazine started in New York in 1974 as a mimeographed fanzine by editor/publisher Ira Robbins, fellow fan of the Who, Dave Schulps, and Karen Rose under the name "Trans-Oceanic Trouser Press" (a reference to a song by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and an acronymic play on the British TV show Top of the Pops).

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UK singles chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently titled the Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more commonly known as the Official UK Top 40) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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Ultravox

Ultravox (earlier styled as Ultravox!) were a British new wave band, formed in London in April 1974 as Tiger Lily.

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Van Halen

Van Halen was an American rock band formed in Pasadena, California, in 1973.

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Vintage Books

Vintage Books is a trade paperback publishing imprint of Penguin Random House originally established by Alfred A. Knopf in 1954.

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Virgin Books

Virgin Books is a British book publisher 90% owned by the publishing group Random House, and 10% owned by Virgin Group, the company originally set up by Richard Branson as a record company.

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World War III

World War III (WWIII or WW3), also known as the Third World War, is a hypothetical future global conflict subsequent to World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duran_Duran_(1981_album)

Also known as (Waiting for the) Night Boat, Anyone Out There, Friends of Mine (Duran Duran song), Is There Anyone Out There, Night Boat, Sound of Thunder (Duran Duran song), Sound of Thunder (song), Tel Aviv (Duran Duran song), Tel Aviv (song), To The Shore.

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Duran Duran (1981 album), the Glossary

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Albums produced by Colin Thurston

Duran Duran albums

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