This week in 1981, they released their eponymous debut album and quickly shot to stardom during the very earliest days of MTV with their infamous ‘Girls on Film’ video and, from then, continued to be a leading band in the MTV-driven Second British Invasion of the US in the 1980s. This year, more than 40 years after that first record, they were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. This might very well be Planet Earth, but this is also Duran Duran.

Ben O'Shea - Dead Man's Wire
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Barra's Bits - Hayden Young - It's A Sense of Relief When It Comes off
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Barra's Bits -Elliot Yeo - I Think It Will End A Lot Of Careers
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