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Dance into the fire! Duran Duran’s 20 greatest songs – ranked
As they reissue their Halloween album Danse Macabre, we rate the best of a band who went from Birmingham to blazer-clad world domination
Rodgers throws everything at it, including percussive thunder, steel drums, and the stammering “n-n-n-n-nineteen”-style sampled vocal, which was then the dernier cri in cutting-edge pop technology, but now automatically dates a track to somewhere between 1984 and 1986. Here, it’s Graham Coxon assisting with the songwriting, with winning results: moody, epic, with a lyrical mention of the most un-Duran-ish locale of Brownsea Island in Dorset. The song that Le Bon said “saved the life of the band” was an old-fashioned arena-sized power ballad with a fabulous melody, and just enough ethereal synth to remind you who was behind it.
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