Cross-over influences became increasingly evident when The Latin Rascals produced a remix of Duran Duran's " Notorious ".

" I once had a drink with a bloke who had caught Duran Duran's Simon Le Bon's dog after it had escaped from his big house ", and " My sister once shagged Ringo out of The Bootleg Beatles.

Because music videos are mainly intended to promote the artist, such videos are comparatively rare ; three early 1980s examples are Bruce Springsteen's " Atlantic City ", directed by Arnold Levine, David Mallet's video for David Bowie and Queen's " Under Pressure ", and Ian Emes ' video for Duran Duran's " The Chauffeur ".

Examples of this tactic were Duran Duran's aforementioned " Girls on Film " and Frankie Goes to Hollywood with " Relax ", directed by Bernard Rose.

In a televised bout that marked the beginning of the Duran-De Jesus trilogy, De Jesus dropped Duran in round one and went on to inflict Duran's first defeat with a ten round decision.

In a title unification bout in Las Vegas which displayed Duran's talents at the peaks of its powers, Duran systematically broke down Dejesus that resulted in a 12th round knockout.

He also appeared in Sheena Easton's " Days Like This " music video as her love interest and Duran Duran's " My Own Way " music video as a dancer.

He would eventually " play " at Villa Park but as Duran Duran's drummer for their 1983 charity concert there.

They would be followed by a large number of acts, many of them employing synthpop sounds, over the next three years, with Duran Duran's glossy videos symbolising the power of MTV and this Second British Invasion.

Music journalist Dave Rimmer considered the peak of the movement was the Live Aid concert of July 1985, after which " everyone seemed to take hubristic tumbles ", and Simon Reynolds also notes the " Do They Know Its Christmas " single in late 1984 and Live Aid in 1985 as a turning points, with the movement seen as having become decadent, with " overripe arrangements and bloated videos " for songs like Duran Duran's " The Wild Boys " and Culture Club's " War Song ".

Viewers witnessed a strong musical performance by the band of many classic hits as well as " Serious ", a single released from Duran Duran's Liberty album from 1990, played in peak form.

Rhodes proceeded to co-produce the band's first single, " Too Shy " with Duran Duran's EMI producer Colin Thurston.

The single was released in January 1983 and went to the top of the UK singles chart ( before any of Duran Duran's singles had done so, Rhodes ruefully noted ).

The distinctive warble of " Save A Prayer ", the keyboard stabs of " A View to a Kill ", and the string sounds of " Come Undone " and " Ordinary World " are some of his most recognizable creations, as well as the futuristic oscillating synth that characterised Duran Duran's self titled first album.

In 1999, Rhodes reunited with Duran Duran's original vocalist, Stephen Duffy, to create new music based on some of the earliest Duran music the two had written together.

Duran Duran's 7 July 2008 concert at the Birmingham NIA was dedicated to Rhodes ' father.

The film is to be directed by award-winning Stuart St. Paul, who has worked on projects ranging from Duran Duran's seminal ' Wild Boys ' video, to massive franchises like ' Aliens ', ' Batman ' and three ' Bond ' movies.

Duran Duran's only other work that year was an appearance on the 1984 Band Aid charity single, " Do They Know It's Christmas ".

That year Le Bon also performed Duran Duran's 1993 hit " Ordinary World " with opera tenor Luciano Pavarotti during a " Children of Bosnia " benefit concert for War Child.

In 2001, Duran Duran's original five members reunited to record a new album, Astronaut, for Epic Records.

Ronson later produced Duran Duran's 2010 album All You Need Is Now.

The ' Rain ' metaphor in the altered lyrics name-checked Duran Duran's earlier song " Hold Back The Rain ", where Geldof's friend Simon Le Bon pleaded with an unnamed band member to cease dabbling with narcotics.

Nagel's 1982 painting for the album cover of rock group Duran Duran's hit album Rio would become one of his best known images.

This, its adoption by the style-conscious acts from the New Romantic movement, together with the rise of MTV, led to success for large numbers of British synthpop acts, including Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet, in the United States.

Philadelphia Daily News described Culture Club as a hot new rock act, while William K Knoedelseder Jr from Los Angeles Times said about the group, " Boy George of Culture Club, a rock group MTV helped make popular ", adding that, " There's some debate in the record industry about MTV's ability to directly increase record sales across the board but there's no doubt that the channel has been responsible for exposing such rock artists as Def Leppard, Duran Duran and Men at Work to a national audience ...".

With considerable boost from MTV airplay during July 1982 The Human League's " Don't You Want Me " had a three week reign on top of the Billboard 100 chart, described by the Village Voice as the moment the Second British Invasion kicked off, they were followed by bands like Duran Duran whose glossy video's would come to symbolise the power of MTV.

It also deals with the iconic status of Duran Duran in the time of early MTV and the band's issues with drug and alcohol.

They would be followed by bands like Duran Duran whose glossy videos would come to symbolise the power of MTV.

At the end of October, Duran Duran raised a few eyebrows by deciding to release the " Union of the Snake " video to MTV a full week before the single was released to radio, at a time when the industry feared video really might kill the radio star.

However, by the end of 1982, the band's Rio album was rapidly climbing the American charts, fueled by saturation airplay of various Duran Duran videos on MTV.

The video also included clips from several earlier Duran Duran videos, including some filmed for album tracks which were never released to MTV, specially " My Own Way ".

* 1980s-numerous Duran Duran and other bandfic authors began to write in isolation, spurred by MTV

As MTV became the center of the entertainment universe, Hunter ’ s celebrity interviews included the first MTV interviews with Madonna, Duran Duran and U2, and also included Ozzy Osbourne, Frank and Moon Unit Zappa, Daryl Hall & John Oates, Loverboy, Kasim Sultan, Crosby Stills & Nash, Kevin Bacon, Robin Williams, Dan Aykroyd, Eurythmics, Kenny Loggins, the Psychedelic Furs, Bob & Doug McKenzie, Lou Reed, Andy Warhol, the Cars, the GoGos, the Bangles, Colin Hay and Men at Work, Boy George, Bon Jovi, Bryan Adams, John Mellencamp, Hugh Hefner, Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Rod Stewart, Cheap Trick, Billy Idol, Thomas Dolby, Joe Jackson, Cyndi Lauper, Crowded House, Aretha Franklin, Michael McDonald, Rick Springfield, Peter Wolf, Toto, Level 42, Steve Martin, Tom Hanks, Martin Short, Chevy Chase and Pee-Wee Herman among others.

* On February 14, 1995, Hole performed on Unplugged with memorable performances of " Miss World ," and " Doll Parts ," and covers of the Nirvana songs " You Know You're Right " ( as " You've Got No Right ") and " Old Age ", and also the Duran Duran song " Hungry Like the Wolf.

Scott ’ s previous relationship with Warren Cuccurullo, who went on to join Duran Duran, led to his mixing an MTV Unplugged episode as well as doing engineering work on the Thank You and Pop Trash albums.

Despite having shared the post with other hosts ( such as Elliot Segal, now at WWDC ) through the years, Duran remains the " Head Zookeeper " to this day.

They created memorable videos for The Police (" Every Breath You Take ", " Synchronicity II ", " Wrapped Around Your Finger "), Duran Duran (" Girls on Film ", " A View to a Kill "), Herbie Hancock (" Rockit "), Go West (" We Close Our Eyes "), Frankie Goes to Hollywood (" Two Tribes ", " The Power of Love "), Sting (" If You Love Somebody Set Them Free " " Fields of Gold "), and Wang Chung (" Everybody Have Fun Tonight "), among many others, up to Godley's video for the 1996 single from The Beatles, " Real Love ", featured in the Beatles Anthology.

His final performance with the original line-up of Duran Duran was in July 1985 at the Live Aid benefit concert in Philadelphia which reached a global audience of 2 billion people.

In 1994, while visiting a friend in Paris, he temporarily joined Duran Duran to play drums on three tracks for the covers album Thank You ( although only two ended up on the album ), later appearing in the video for " Perfect Day " and on the band's Top Of The Pops performance of the song.

* On November 17, 1993, British rock group Duran Duran filmed their acoustic performance after a brief hiatus from their world tour due to lead singer Simon Le Bon's vocal straining after 11 months on the road.

" The Reflex " is primarily a concert video, accurately portraying Duran Duran's Sing Blue Silver tour performance style.

# " Hungry Like the Wolf ( Live )"-3: 19 ( live performance of the Duran Duran cover )