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Duran Duran – Ordinary World (4:41)

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“Ordinary World” is the first single from Duran Duran’s self-titled 1993 album, better known as The Wedding Album. The song peaked at No. 3 in the American charts and No. 6 in the British charts.

By the early 90s, Duran Duran’s popularity had faded. Their album Liberty had proved a commercial failure, its two singles failing to make a significant showing on British or American charts.

It wasn’t until Capitol leaked “Ordinary World” to a radio station in Florida in the autumn of 1992 that it looked like Duran Duran mania might yet hit again. The single proved so popular that Capitol had to push the US release date up, ultimately releasing it in December. In the UK, the original January release date stood. The song can be credited as introducing Duran Duran to a new generation of fans.

Simon LeBon would go on to sing the song with Pavarotti at a WarChild benefit, which was released on home video as Pavarotti & Friends: Together for the Children of Bosnia. Le Bon later said of the event, “If you’re talking about name dropping, he’s one of the biggest names you could drop, Pav-The-Man.”

The strings in the song were arranged and performed by Nick Rhodes, using a Kurzweil K2000, a digital synthesizer that was highly advanced for its time.

The song won an Ivor Novello Award in May 1994 and later featured in the soundtrack to the film Layer Cake in 2005.

The music video was filmed by director Nick Egan at Huntington Gardens in San Marino, California.
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  • Greatest
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  • Duran Duran (The Wedding Album)
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  • The Singles Box 1986 - 1995
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  • Absolute 90's
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  • crazykaz02

    ace song

    Friday evening

  • jelene

    love.

    last week

  • Sound-Of-Nature

    Masterpiece! One of my favorite songs ever!

    last week

  • CidaDuarteF

    Me encanta!!!!

    last week

  • TheWormPrincess

    =)

    last week

  • thomas-anders

    <3

    23 days ago

  • mterry660

    "Where is my friend I when I need you most"...........Miss you M.A.

    last month

  • alfonzoloya

    Their best song.

    last month

  • futchadoc

    I love this song so much!!

    last month

  • joe_g101

    Probably their best song, but I've selected others from this band. Anyone know how to affect the way this site plays tracks? I've had 17 DD plays, all of them this song, ignoring the others .....

    last month

  • josanesouza

    I love. Eu amo. Adoro essas bandas s2

    last month

  • CrazyMaisy

    Octane XM 37 just drove me to turn off my XM player and fire up Google Music and listen to the real version of Ordinary World. I hate Red's version. UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!! What in the world did they record it for? Sickeningly Horrible. Duran Duran RULES on that one. And yeah, Layer Cake is superb with this in it, it's so incredible, btw.

    last month

  • lisabemine

    Had such a crush on him back in the day.

    March 2012

  • kkam7

    Up there with my top 5 80`s bands.

    March 2012

  • qualityhill

    We all learn to survive!

    March 2012

  • clashingnotes

    :DD love it.

    March 2012

  • mannequinchaos

    <3333 <3 <3 <3

    February 2012

  • GuitarGodRocks

    awesome band... you totally rock DD!!

    February 2012

  • linkntinks

    Where is my friend when I need to most? But I Won't cry for yesterday....I will learn to survive!

    January 2012

  • sharonrox

    Reminds me of a particular time in my life and always makes me cry. Shows them at their very best.

    January 2012
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