Still a relatively new phenomenon, MTV wasn't yet in many households but the exposure helped Duran Duran's fortunes rise. The "Hungry Like the Wolf" video - an Indiana Jones-inspired clip filmed in Sri Lanka - was added to MTV in early July 1982. in the summer of 1982, both as a headlining act and as an opener for Blondie. Still, Duran Duran had more than a few aces up their collective sleeves. But widespread radio support remained still elusive. "Hungry Like the Wolf" charted briefly in mid-August 1982 on Billboard's Top Rock Tracks chart - and the influential Boston Top 40 station WXKS also playlisted the song after finding the import 12-inch. Upon the release of Rio, the song was issued as a single and received airplay on select rock radio stations. In the U.S., "Hungry Like the Wolf" took longer to become a hit. 35 - good enough for a May appearance on Top of the Pops - and eventually reached No. ("Night Version" was a colloquial term Duran Duran gave the longer, dance-floor-friendly takes of their songs.) The song debuted on the singles chart at No. In the U.K., "Hungry Like the Wolf" was issued as a regular single and then a 12-inch featuring an extended "Night Version" that was produced by Colin Thurston and arranged by Duran Duran. “We gave him far more ideas and music than the track actually needed, and he was important in the process of whittling them down to the essential elements." The laughing and moaning heard in the song, meanwhile, were supplied by Nick Rhodes' girlfriend at the time, Cheryl. "He was a great organizer and arranger,” Andy Taylor told Blender. Rio's producer and engineer, the late Colin Thurston, made sure everything sounded in tip-top shape. When Duran Duran moved to London's AIR Studios to record Rio in early 1982, the band kept the synth framework intact and just re-did the other elements of the already-in-good-shape demo. The song was probably written by cocktail hour." "I came in, and they’d been working for maybe two hours, and I just knew exactly what to play. "Roger came in and played ’cause he’d just bought some Simmons drums, so that was where he got those big fills from," bassist John Taylor told the A.V.
Le Bon was inspired to come up with a vocal melody and lyrics, while the rhythm section of John and Roger Taylor also came up with their parts easily. "As soon as we heard that, we knew we had something, and I started working out a Marc Bolan-ish guitar part, a very Marshall-sounding Les Paul guitar lick, to go on top of it,” he told Blender in 2002. The track's musical base in turn inspired guitarist Andy Taylor.
Watch Duran Duran's 'Hungry Like the Wolf' Video Using the synth's arpeggiator, he came up with some chords, and then combined these elements with a sequencer and programmed beats from a Roland TR-808 electronic rhythm box. That day, Rhodes' keyboard of choice was the powerful Roland Jupiter-8. Certain members of Duran Duran had been out late the night before - Rhodes, for one, remembers being hungover the next day - but the whole band dutifully turned up to work on music. Writing-wise, "Hungry Like the Wolf" came together quickly, during a Saturday session in London at EMI's Manchester Square basement studios. Not only did this brief break show off Duran Duran's gift for arranging, but it also created emotional tension that made the song's big-finish denouement sound even more massive. With lyrics said to be inspired by the nursery rhyme "Little Red Riding Hood," he sketches out a scenario based around romantic pursuit: " In touch with the ground / I'm on the hunt I'm after you / Scent and a sound, I'm lost and I'm found / And I'm hungry like the wolf." Elsewhere, Le Bon tosses off one of his usual highly quotable quips (" Strut on a line, it's discord and rhyme") as well as wordless, do-do-do vocals and an earworm of a melodic hook.įor good measure, "Hungry Like the Wolf" also boasts an intrigue-filled bridge with smoldering guitar, moody keyboard atmospherics and Le Bon emphasizing the title with an eyebrow-raised growl.
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Singer Simon Le Bon, meanwhile, draws on his acting background for a vocal performance full of emotive drama.
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