1. 	"Too Much Information" 	4:56
2. 	"Ordinary World" 	5:39
3. 	"Love Voodoo" 	4:58
4. 	"Drowning Man" 	5:15
5. 	"Shotgun" 	0:54
6. 	"Come Undone" 	4:38
7. 	"Breath After Breath" 	4:58
8. 	"UMF" 	5:33
9. 	"Femme Fatale" (Lou Reed) 	4:21
10. 	"None of the Above" 	5:19
11. 	"Shelter" 	4:25
12. 	"To Whom It May Concern" 	4:24
13. 	"Sin of the City" 	7:14
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14. 	"Time for Temptation" (alternate version) 	3:46
15. 	"Stop Dead" (Edit) 	3:52
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16. 	"Falling Angel" 	4:35
17. 	"Stop Dead" 	4:31
18. 	"Time for Temptation" 	4:09
19. 	"Come Undone" (12" mix - Comin' Together) 	7:21
20. 	"Ordinary World" (acoustic version) 	5:07
21. 	"Too Much Information" (David Richards 12" mix) 	4:14

Simon Le Bon – lead vocals
Warren Cuccurullo – acoustic and electric guitars
Nick Rhodes – keyboards
John Taylor – bass guitar
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John Jones – programming, keyboards, guitar, vocals
Milton Nascimento – vocals on track 7 
Steve Ferrone – drums on tracks 1 and 2, percussion on track 10 
Vinnie Colaiuta – drums on track 7
Dee Long – additional keyboards on track 11 
Bosco – percussion on track 7 
Lamya – backing vocals on track 3 
Tessa Niles – backing vocals on track 6 
Karen Hendrix & Jack Merigg – vocal samples on track 4 

Duran Duran came back out of nowhere in early 1993 with a new album and a huge hit, "Ordinary World." The group sounds more relaxed and mature than it did during their glory days, but not all that much has changed; instead of personifying the days of early-'80s synthesized dance-pop, the music is smooth dance pop for the '90s. Taken on its own terms, Duran Duran (The Wedding Album) works every bit as well as Duran Duran, Rio, or Seven and the Ragged Tiger. "Ordinary World" and "Come Undone" are wonderful pop singles that sit between some passable album tracks and the occasional embarrassment, namely the wretched cover of the Velvet Underground's "Femme Fatale." In other words, Duran Duran are back and as good as they ever were. ---Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AllMusic Review

In 1993, the band returned from a prolonged hiatus with Duran Duran [The Wedding Album], a mature, layered record of lite funk and soulful adult contemporary pop that became a surprise hit. "Ordinary World" and "Come Undone" became Top Ten hits in America and the U.K. as well; the album itself climbed into the Top Ten on both continents and went platinum in America. Not only did the record restore their commercial status, but it earned them some of their best reviews of their career. ---itunes.apple.com

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1. The Reflex
2. Hungry Like the Wolf
3. Rio
4. A View to a Kill				play
5. Notorious
6. Union of the Snake
7. Girls on Film				play
8. The Wild Boys
9. Is There Something I Should Know
10. Save a Prayer

Duran Duran:
Simon Le Bon – vocals, guitar, harmonica
Nick Rhodes – keyboards
John Taylor – bass
Roger Taylor – drums

Past members:
Andy Taylor
Sterling Campbell
Warren Cuccurullo
Stephen Duffy
Alan Curtis
Andy Wickett
Simon Colley
Jeff Thomas

The four original members of Duran Duran - John Taylor, Roger Taylor, Nick Rhodes and Simon Le Bon - have announced today the global release of their 13th studio album, entitled ALL YOU NEED IS NOW. Produced by the Grammy Award-winning Mark Ronson (Amy Winehouse, Adele, Kaiser Chiefs, Lily Allen) and mixed by Spike Stent (Madonna, Björk, No Doubt), the record is a return-to-roots homage to Duran Duran’s most celebrated musical panache.

Selling over 80 million records over their three-decade career, Duran Duran certainly has a storied history, but this new tale begins in 2008. As part of a year-long run, they headlined festivals in a number of countries, playing arenas in others, and became the first group to perform at the Louvre Museum in Paris. Two nights later, in the same city, Duran Duran treated fans to a specially created “mega-mix” one-hour set that was filmed in a tiny theatre, with long-time-fan, Mark Ronson. This rare live performance, immediately proved that there was a powerful chemistry between Ronson and the band, and within just a few weeks, a much larger collaboration had developed, with Mark committing to produce the band’s 13th studio album. Starting out in the late Spring of 2009, at Sphere Studios in London, this much-anticipated Duran/Ronson union flourished, as writing and recording began on an exciting new body of work, which Ronson has boldly stated is the “imaginary follow up to Rio that never was.”

With this newfound partnership, the band was energized and excited by the music they were creating. The result is nothing short of pure Duran Duran brilliance. The album features guest vocals/rap from longtime Duran Duran pal/collaborator Ana Matronic of the Scissor Sisters and R&B/neo-soul superstar Kelis, while Owen Pallett of Arcade Fire contributes the album’s string arrangements. Always at the forefront of the art scene, the band enlisted the talents of up-and-coming British art star Clunie Reid for the album artwork and packaging. Reid’s work has been recently shown at leading UK and US spaces, including the Saatchi Gallery, The Tate and the New Museum in New York. British fashion magazine POP’s creative team will provide art direction for the project.

The stats on DURAN DURAN are remarkable: a total of over 80 million records sold, 18 American hit singles, 30 chart-toppers in their UK home market, and a global presence that guarantees them huge concert audiences on five continents. More remarkable still is the way they have achieved this, fusing pop music with art, fashion and technology. When they first broke in the early 1980s, Duran Duran single-handedly transformed music videos from a gimmicky marketing tool into one of the music industry’s most valued assets. With exotic locations, beautiful girls and stunning special-effects, Duran Duran took the visual imperatives of the New Romantic movement to another level, defining the MTV generation and building a loyal army of fans who have stayed with them to this day.

Now a seemingly unstoppable force, with no fewer than five prestigious Lifetime Achievement Awards under their belt in the last few years from MTV, the Brit Awards, the Ivor Novellos, the Spanish Ondas and Q Magazine, the four original members of Duran Duran are in a category with only a handful of other internationally acclaimed artists. As this new chapter begins, they have nothing left to prove, but everything to play for. So for them…All You Need Is Now! ---amazon.com

When asked to name important artists of the '80s, very few music fans of that era would leave Duran Duran off their short lists. And the reason for that consistent prominence is that the Birmingham, England quintet skillfully yet somehow not cynically combined the best musical and stylistic elements of the '80s into its diverse and pleasing pop music formula. The Duran Duran sound may not have changed the world or perhaps even its listeners' lives, but it certainly made them more lush and enjoyable.

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1. All You Need Is Now 
2. Bame The Machines 
3. Being Followed          play
4. Leave A Ligtht On 
5. Safe (feat Ana Matronic) 
6. Girl Panic 
7. The Man Who Stole A Leopard (feat Kelis) 
8. Runaway Runaway         play
9. Before The Rain

Personnel:
Duran Duran are:
* Simon Le Bon - Vocals
* John Taylor - Bass
* Nick Rhodes - Keyboards
* Roger Taylor - Drums 
With:
* Dominic Brown - Guitar
* Ana Matronic - Vocals/rap (track 5)
* Kelis - Vocals (track 7)
* Nina Hossain - Vocals/spoken words (track 2, 7)
* Owen Pallett - String arrangements

Duran Duran and producer Mark Ronson envisioned the 2011 release All You Need Is Now as a sequel to the band’s 1982 effort Rio, but fans are better off approaching it as the imaginary effort that came after 1983’s Seven and the Ragged Tiger. Follow their analogy, and this should sound like a band that just created a new wave icon, but here there’s an enthusiasm and sense of purpose that can only come from an act less cocksure than one that is on top. To his credit, Ronson was pretty near the top at the time of the album’s release, but his inspired work on All You Need is driven by both hero worship and a previously underappreciated talent to do what’s right by the artist. For Duran Duran, it’s clean and slick landscapes of synths, plus a dash of trendy gimmicks (representing the band’s love of fame and fashion) with just a touch of weird (representing the band’s love of art rock, particularly Roxy Music). The band is close enough to top form to use Ronson’s work as a springboard, letting the singalong tales of models, paranoia, and men who steal leopards flow naturally. Some tracks sway and glide, like the new romantic hit “Planet Earth” (the great “Too Bad You’re So Beautiful,” or the sci-fi club track “Blame the Machines”), while others bring reminders of the percussive studio creation “Wild Boys” (the pounding title track), or those early, melancholy numbers like “The Chauffer” (the flowing and wistful “Mediterranea”). As far as reservations, the once bold, sometimes shameless Simon Le Bon sounds a bit tentative in this post-Killers world, and when compared to the tight, original, nine-track version of the album previously made available via digital download, this final, fatter version borders on "too much of a good thing." Fortunately, the emphasis will be on "good thing" for longtime Duran fans or anyone with a taste for melodic, synth-driven pop/rock. ---David Jeffries, AllMusic Review

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1- Is there Something I Should Know
2- The Reflex
3- A view To A Kill
4- Ordinary World(single version)
5- Save A Preyer(us single version)
6- Rio(us edit)
7- Hungry Like The Wolf
8- Girls On Film
9- Planet Earth
10-Union Of The Snake
11-New Moon On Monday
12-Wild Boys
13-Notorious
14-I Don't Want Your Love(Shep Pettibone 7' mix)
15-All She Wants Is(45 mix)
16-Electric Barbarella(edit)
17-Serious(edit)
18-Skin Trade(radio cut)
19-Come Undone(edit)

Twenty years since their pop music debut, Duran Duran issued another greatest-hits collection. As if 1989's Decade weren't stellar enough, this select package was much more solid. Greatest showcased the band's early days of glam rock décor and new romanticism to the alluring sophistication Duran Duran exuded throughout the '90s. The typical synth-powered pop hits are included -- "Girls on Film," "Rio," "A View to a Kill" -- as well as the signature ballads -- "Save a Prayer" -- but it might also receive criticism due to its chronological disarray. Still, that gives no reason to fret, for other goodies can be found throughout. The much-neglected "New Moon on Monday" is featured, as well as the band's mature eclecticism of such songs from the self-titled Wedding Album -- "Ordinary World" and "Come Undone." The band's experimentation with new millennium electronica found on "Electric Barbarella" again refocuses on Simon LeBon as the center of the band. A continuity blatantly obvious on Greatest and the strong commercialism that progressed throughout the band's healthy evolvement is not denied. Those chart-smashing singles from the 1980s made them a force to be reckoned with and an arena favorite. The songs are nearly ageless and they get their due here. It's a cheeky production and a definitive depiction of one of rock's biggest pop bands. ---MacKenzie Wilson, AllMusic Review

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