Once I knew she’d slipped in, I used my legitimate ticket to get in and we joined some really nice people on the lawn who kind enough to let a couple of latecomers crowd in. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

Then one day many years later I looked up the All Music Guide review by that busy guy Mr Erlewine and was surprised to find he had awarded a mere two stars out of five. But something about Arena really grabbed me, and I’ve listened to it regularly ever since, as Rio and Seven and the Ragged Tiger sit unplayed on my iPod Classic. Although I must say, I was pleasantly surprised by this one, any list of “The 50 Greatest Live Albums Ever” that is thoughtful enough to include Wings Over America and Pulse and The Song Remains the Same along with a couple of live Queen albums is all right by me, even if for some inexplicable reason it has not only Kiss Not-Very-Live but also Kiss Not-Very-Live II.But Le Bon Bon almost always had you thinking it all meant something because he put such emotion into his singing. Union of the Snake" • " New Moon on Monday" • " The Reflex" • " The Wild Boys" • " A View to a Kill" • " Notorious" • " Skin Trade" • " Meet El Presidente" • " I Don't Want Your Love" • " All She Wants Is" • " Do You Believe in Shame? When a vocalist can sing lines like “you say you’re easy honey/but you’re about as easy as a nuclear war” and I am willing to look the other way, well, I’d say you must have a pretty talented vocalist.

These videos featured Duran Duran performing live in Oakland, California between April 12/15 1984 while Milo O'Shea reprised his role as the evil Dr. Rio may be an 80s touchstone, after all, but truth is, when I am I the mood for some Double Duran, I will reach for Arena every time. By that time Duran Duran’s star was on the wane – side projects were going on by that time, three of the members had already released the greatest album Duran Duran never recorded with Arcadia’s So Red the Rose, a personal favorite of mine I plan on reviewing someday. Burning the Ground" • " Violence of Summer (Love's Taking Over)" • " Serious" • " Ordinary World" • " Come Undone" • " Too Much Information" • " Perfect Day" • " White Lines" • " Out of My Mind" • " Electric Barbarella" • " Someone Else Not Me" • " (Reach Up for The) Sunrise" • " What Happens Tomorrow" • " Nice" • " Falling Down • " All You Need Is Now • " Girl Panic! The guy had an enormous amount of talent to be able to take such lyrical gobbledygook and sing about it like his heart was breaking.The Wild Boys" single was issued with six separate covers in the UK - one featuring each individual band member and one of the band collectively. If you checked into this world any time between 1965 and 1975, the sheer ubiquity of Duran Duran indelibly stamped some of their songs on several thousand neurons that you have tucked away somewhere in your brain pan – and be honest, you like it. But if I was going to select ten of them, I’m not sure I’d make many changes from the ten they picked for this release. I mean really, the guy puts an incredible amount of emotion into the most incredibly meaningless lyrics you could ever hope to hear.