The album featured a top ten single, also named ' Notorious'. In 1985, the band topped the US charts with the single ' A View to a Kill' from the soundtrack of the film of the same name.Д«efore the recording of their fourth album, 1986's Notorious, Andy Taylor and Roger Taylor had both left the band. Their follow-up third album, Seven and the Ragged Tiger, became their only UK number one album and featured the US and UK number one single ' The Reflex'. 'Hungry Like the Wolf' won the inaugural Grammy Award for Best Music Video in 1984. The songs ' Hungry Like the Wolf' and ' Rio' featured cinematic music videos directed by Australian film maker Russel Mulcahy and became two of their biggest hits. The band's breakthrough sophomore album was Rio (1982), which peaked at number six on the Billboard 200 album chart in the US, number two in the United Kingdom, and number one in Australia and Canada.

A heavily edited form played in rotation on MTV. The band's first major hit was ' Girls on Film' (1981), from their self-titled debut album, the popularity of which was enhanced by a controversial music video. The group was a leading band in the MTV-driven Second British Invasion of the US in the 1980s. Innovators of the music video, Duran Duran was catapulted into the mainstream with the introduction of the 24-hour music channel MTV.

When Duran Duran emerged they were generally considered part of the New Romantic scene. With the addition of drummer Roger Taylor the following year the band went through numerous personnel changes before settling on the line-up including guitarist Andy Taylor and lead singer Simon Le Bon in May 1980. Duran Duran ( / dj КЉ ЛЊ r Г¦ n dj КЉ Л€ r Г¦ n/) are an English new wave band formed in Birmingham in 1978 by keyboardist Nick Rhodes and bassist John Taylor.

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