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Andy Taylor (guitarist, Duran Duran): We were the only pop group that had an electric guitar for years in this country, and songs like Hungry Like The Wolf and Planet Earth are all based on Marc Bolan-ish guitar riffs which no one else got near. That was always our thing.
Nick Rhodes (keyboards, Duran Duran) : The Planet Earth video really captured the time of the new romantic thing, that dance, that they used to do, I mean, that used to happen, that wasn’t sort of faked. You know, we used to watch the people in the clubs all dance.
When we did the video, we couldn’t believe it, because we’d finished the album and the record company executive came to us and said, "Oh do you want to make a little film to go with your song?". And we’d not really thought about it. Because at that time, you know 1980, there wasn’t really such a thing as videos. I mean, there was a couple of little promo clips that had being done. The Queen one for Bohemian Rhapsody always comes to mind, I think everyone remembers that. Uhmm, there were ones, but it wasn’t certainly the done-thing when you brought out a record that you actually made a video. And our management at the time were fairly switched into the idea of this and brought a director called Russell Mulcahy, who went on to do a lot of videos with us. But the Planet Earth one was actually shot in St. John’s Wood in London on videotape.
Simon Le Bon (vocals, Duran Duran) : We couldn’t believe it when we saw it back. You know, we sat there and… you know, we didn’t really know what was going on actually. We heard this word ‘the mat’, "get the mat in position", "fix the camera", "let it look like it’s some kind of cliff face you’re standing on, with pinnacles some kind". But it was only really when we saw it back, that we realized quite how amazing it was gonna look.
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Nick Rhodes (keyboards, Duran Duran) : The Planet Earth video really captured the time of the new romantic thing, that dance, that they used to do, I mean, that used to happen, that wasn’t sort of faked. You know, we used to watch the people in the clubs all dance.
When we did the video, we couldn’t believe it, because we’d finished the album and the record company executive came to us and said, "Oh do you want to make a little film to go with your song?". And we’d not really thought about it. Because at that time, you know 1980, there wasn’t really such a thing as videos. I mean, there was a couple of little promo clips that had being done. The Queen one for Bohemian Rhapsody always comes to mind, I think everyone remembers that. Uhmm, there were ones, but it wasn’t certainly the done-thing when you brought out a record that you actually made a video. And our management at the time were fairly switched into the idea of this and brought a director called Russell Mulcahy, who went on to do a lot of videos with us. But the Planet Earth one was actually shot in St. John’s Wood in London on videotape.
Simon Le Bon (vocals, Duran Duran) : We couldn’t believe it when we saw it back. You know, we sat there and… you know, we didn’t really know what was going on actually. We heard this word ‘the mat’, "get the mat in position", "fix the camera", "let it look like it’s some kind of cliff face you’re standing on, with pinnacles some kind". But it was only really when we saw it back, that we realized quite how amazing it was gonna look.
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