duran duran - planet earth
Back○○○ Recorded Red Bus Studios, London December 1980, writer Duran Duran & producer Colin Thurston
"Planet Earth" is the debut single by the pop/rock band Duran Duran, released on 2 February 1981. The song later appeared on the band's eponymous debut album Duran Duran, released in June, 1981.
The music video for the song was directed by future film director Russell Mulcahy, who would go on to direct a dozen more for the group.
Fairly primitive by the band's later standards, the video features the band (dressed in frilly, floppy New Romantic fashions) playing the song on a white stage tricked out with special effects to look like a platform made of ice or crystal. Interspersed with the performance are shots of the band members alongside the four elements. The video focused closely on the band's faces. The instrumental middle section features friends of the band from the Rum Runner nightclub dancing in their outlandish outfits. At the end of the video, singer Simon Le Bon leaps from the stage, caught in a freeze frame shot above an apparently bottomless abyss.
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"Planet Earth" begins with a slow synthesised sweep backed with electronic rhythm, but the real rhythm section of throbbing bass and crisp drums soon kick in. Muted guitar carries the up-and-down melodic hook of the song as the singer joins in.
The song was the first to explicitly acknowledge the fledgling New Romantic fashion movement, with the line "Like some New Romantic looking for the TV sound".
Channel: Music
Uploaded: October 23, 2006 at 7:56 pm
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Length: 00:03:45
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Tags: duran planet earth 1980 rock london colin thurston russell mulcahy pop
Video Comments:
gregingram1970 (November 21, 2008 at 8:23 am)
As well as bite, this track encapsulates the 1980s. The wallpaper of 1980s music i think.
gregingram1970 (November 21, 2008 at 8:21 am)
I was watching Japan video of Quiet Life (1981) and i thought they sounded similar. on reflection, i think this song had more funk, groove and bit than anything Japan put out - before Japan fans comment, they both borrowed from Bowie and Roxy Music to get their musical identity.
DAZA1965 (November 21, 2008 at 7:04 am)
This song and visage fade to grey were the best 80's tunes ever..........
fanks for posting it, from an old romantic !
fanks for posting it, from an old romantic !
ikasasdoll (November 20, 2008 at 4:45 pm)
The whole band is delightful to watch and listen to all of their great song. I love his voice and little accent.
aalleexx71 (November 20, 2008 at 3:22 pm)
Nothing but true
guisegretti (November 18, 2008 at 12:35 am)
DURAN DURAN in BRAZIL!
frankyputube (November 17, 2008 at 9:56 pm)
MTV when it was about the music video. Not the crap they show today. I feel sorry for you kids today. You are fed so much bullshit.
carito216 (November 17, 2008 at 6:11 pm)
I love Duran Duran they are the first band I ever seen in concert! wow I to wish I go back to 1980's great times.
patkittycat (November 16, 2008 at 9:21 am)
En vivo esta canción es tan espectacular... Tuve la oportunidad de vivirlo anoche, 5 estrellas!
sag1101 (November 18, 2008 at 10:24 pm)
En CCS, yo tmabien fui!! Buenisimo!!
Fan de toda la vida de DD
Fan de toda la vida de DD