DURAN DURAN save a prayer, 7" single, EMI 5327

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Simon Le Bon wrote the lyrics to the song while the band was on tour. The lyrics are about a chance meeting between two people that turns into a one-night stand. According to Le Bon, the song's chorus structure is based on Gordon Lightfoot's "If You Could Read My Mind" and the lyrics as being contrary to the then-popular New Romantic movement by being "realistic, and not romantic" and "for seeing things as they really are." He sums up "Save A Prayer" as "It's definitely a freedom song but like a kinda nobody owns anybody kinda song." (Source).

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EODM (Eagles of Death Metal) – Save a Prayer" (in French). Les classement single. Retrieved 26 November 2015. Hello Ger, If I remember correctly, it was an Electro Harmonix phase shifter. It sounds like a chorus pedal, which was de rigeur for every fretless bass sound at that time, and I use chorus today on that song .. but .. I’m pretty sure the effect I used in the studio was aforesaid phaser. And it wasn’t a fretless bass. John." EODM (Eagles of Death Metal) – Save a Prayer" (in French). Ultratop 50. Retrieved 28 November 2015. European Top 100 Singles" (PDF). Eurotipsheet. Vol.2, no.10. 11 March 1985. p.10. OCLC 29800226– via World Radio History.The only story about this one is that I was obsessed by a song in the seventies when I was a little boy called If You Could Read My Mind. Does anyone know that song, by Gordon Lightfoot? You know, "bout a ghost from a wishing well" "if you could read my mind, love" and you know there's that bit [sings this part] "don't say a prayer for me now" [from Save A Prayer, not If You Could Read My Mind] well it kinda comes from [singing again, getting you to hear how close the melody is] "and you won't read that book again" It actually inspired two songs, two Duran Duran songs and this is one of them, this is Save A Prayer" Save a Prayer" debuted at No. 53 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the week ending Feb. 2, 1985, and later peaked at No. 16 in mid-March. By that point, "Some Like It Hot" — the first single from the Power Station, a side project featuring John and Andy Taylor — was starting to make waves on radio. What he (Simon) is telling the woman is not to worry about tomorrow and just savour the moment. Essentially, I think that pretty sums up the whole song - forgetting about everything and just living in the present moment. Shut Up and Dance – Save It 'til the Mourning After" (in Dutch). MegaCharts . Retrieved 3 April 2023. While perched on a branch over a lagoon and miming playing his guitar, an intoxicated Andy Taylor fell into the water. He accidentally swallowed some, and had to be hospitalised during the band's subsequent Australian tour due to a tropical virus he contracted at that time. The band members all initially refused to do the scene where an elephant sprays water from its trunk onto one of them due to its homoerotic overtones; they finally settled on John Taylor since he was the band's pin-up boy. He would be teased about it for years afterwards. [9] "I didn't care," he wrote in 2012. "I loved it. It is one of my most treasured memories." [12]

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That's what I LOVE on these 80ies (and 90ies) songs. You can think hours about the lyrics and what they mean, and every time you hear something different...It's that good. Total single material. But such was the rich power of Duran Duran's songwriting during this period, it's relegated to a b-side. fluffy_little_something wrote:I always found that song and melody very uplifting, nothing sad about it in my view... Official Scottish Singles Sales Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 26 November 2015.

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fluffy_little_something wrote:I always found that song and melody very uplifting, nothing sad about it in my view...I agree. There's something about the tune and the sounds used, except for Andy Taylor's guitar tone in the solo, which sounds more like a hair-dryer to my ears. The words don't make much sense either but I have loved that song ever since it came out nevertheless.The lyrics actually do make much sense but it can be interpreted differently (why he has to pray the morning after the one-night-stand?). UK Singles Chart, week of 20 November 2015". Official Charts Company. 20 November 2015 . Retrieved 21 November 2015.Arguably one of Duran Duran’s biggest songs. That hauntingly brilliant synthesizer opener sets the whole mood/tone of the song.