Saturday Songs - September 1, 2012

In the 1980s, MTV was still in its infancy… and still playing music videos.  Music videos, too, were in their infancy, a new medium for musicians to explore, mostly through band performance videos.

Then there was Duran Duran, and Hungry Like The Wolf.

Duran Duran had done videos before, even a video with director Russell (Highlander) Mulcahy.  But this video was something different.  It was not a band performance, not even a trippy band performance like Planet Earth.  It was almost like watching a mini-movie, helping to bring the medium of music videos to a new height, and raising the bar for future projects, at least until Michael Jackson’s Thriller hit the screens some two years later.

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