Rio (song)
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| Single by Duran Duran | ||||
| from the album Rio | ||||
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| Released | August 1982 (Australia) 1 November 1982 (UK) 2 April 1983 (US) |
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| Recorded | January–February 1982 at AIR Studios, London |
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| Writer(s) | Simon Le Bon, John Taylor, Roger Taylor, Andy Taylor, James Bates | |||
| Producer(s) | Colin Thurston | |||
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| Single by Goldfinger | |
| from the album Duran Duran Tribute Album | |
| Released | December 1997 |
| Format | CD single |
| Genre | Ska punk, punk rock |
| Length | 2:59 |
| Label | Mojo |
| Writer(s) | Duran Duran |
| Producer(s) | Jay Rifkin and John Feldmann |
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| Single by Nicole Scherzinger | ||||
| Released | August 2008 | |||
| Format | CD single | |||
| Recorded | 2007-2008 | |||
| Genre | R&B, pop | |||
| Length | 3:39 | |||
| Label | A&M, Interscope | |||
| Writer(s) | Duran Duran | |||
| Producer(s) | Ron Fair, JR Rotem, Ben H. Allen | |||
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| Single by Moby | ||||
| from the album Making Patterns Rhyme | ||||
| Released | 3 June 2014 | |||
| Format | Music download | |||
| Genre | Electronic | |||
| Length | 5:34 | |||
| Label | Modern Records | |||
| Writer(s) | Duran Duran | |||
| Producer(s) | Moby | |||
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"Rio" is the seventh single by Duran Duran. It was first released as a single in Australia, in August 1982, followed by a UK release on 1 November 1982.
The song was the fourth, final, and title single lifted from the band's album of the same name, and was edited for its release. It was issued worldwide in January 1983 and became an immediate Top 10 hit in the UK Singles Chart, peaking at #9 on 11 December 1982.
"Rio" was released as the third single from the album in Australia, and debuted on the Kent Music Report top 100 singles chart dated 6 September 1982.
The song did not attract much notice in the United States upon its initial global release, but received very early airplay at highly influential KROQ in Los Angeles as early as 2 August 1982. After the band's breakthrough hit "Hungry Like the Wolf" stormed MTV and scaled the American charts in December 1982, radio programmers paid closer attention to the catchy melody and insistent, intricate bass line of "Rio", and Capitol Records reissued the single in March 1983 to great success as the band's 2nd US top 20 hit.(peaking at #14)
It is one of the band's most recognisable songs, mostly due to its famous music video, which is widely regarded as symbolic of 1980s glamour and excess.
The keyboard pattern for "Rio", well-known among Duran Duran fans and synthesizer enthusiasts, was produced by an arpeggiator—a software tool which can play the individual notes in a chord in a chosen pattern. It was once rumoured that the synthesiser used to achieve this was a Roland Jupiter-8. However, it has been said by Nick Rhodes to actually be a Roland Jupiter-4 using the random mode on the arpeggiator with a Cmaj7 chord.
Rhodes created the unusual sound at the beginning of the song by throwing several small metal rods onto the strings of a grand piano in the studio. The recorded sound was then reversed to create the intro. The laughter on the track was that of Rhodes' girlfriend at the time.
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