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Violator
The band announced a signing at a Los Angeles record shop and around seventeen thousand people came, which ended with riot police.
Dare
Singer Phil Oakey found two of his backing vocalists dancing in a Sheffield nightclub and put them on stage within weeks. Neither had sung professionally.
Rio
The videos were shot in Sri Lanka and Antigua on a yacht, which was the point. Patrick Nagel painted the woman on the sleeve.
Songs from the Big Chair
Everybody Wants to Rule the World was written last, in a few days, and the band nearly left it off the record entirely.
Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
The band come from Versailles and had spent ten years making records almost nobody outside France bought before this one arrived.
Duran Duran
John Taylor's bass carries the tunes the way a lead guitar normally would, which is what separates this from the synth-pop around it.
The Hurting
The two of them had played together in a Bath mod band as teenagers, and named this one after a line in a psychology book.