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Duran Duran
A British synth pop and new wave band born in Birmingham in the early 1980s,
Duran Duran enjoyed rapid success with their first albums, Duran Duran (No. 3 in
1981), Rio (No. 2 in 1982) and above all Seven and the Ragged Tiger (No. 1 in
1983), at the start of the music video era, which greatly contributed to their
popular success, both in the UK and in the USA, where the band enjoyed a star on
the Hollywood Boulevard "Walk of Fame" in Los Angeles. After 1985, with the hits
"Girls on Film" (No. 5) and "Hungry Like the Wolf" (No. 5), things were more
mixed for the still-productive b...
