The band spent several months in Australia mixing the Seven And The Ragged Tiger album, and found its vastness so alluring that they decided that they had to capture it on film. “Union Of The Snake” was shot in the Australian outback and in a college hall there.
Roger got the worst of it yet again -being bitten by a crab is no fun! It was a more relaxed setting for them, although Simon Le Bon confesses that the scenes in “Rio” on a rented yacht were enough to make him quite seasick! “Hey, it’s all just part of being in a pop group, you know?” he says with a grin.Īfter a world-hopping tour which included Japan and Australia, their next location was the Caribbean island of Antigua, where they filmed “Rio” and “The Nightboat.” John Taylor has a philosophical outlook about all this. “Save A Prayer” contains a scene where they are standing, solemn and barefoot, in a temple.Īs soon as the cameras stopped rolling, however, another scene came into view: that of the boys making a mad dash for their shoes, as their bare feet were scorched by the temple’s hot stone floor! … Sri Lanka held other surprises for Duran Duran. “Plus we had to deal with things like continued unexpected tropical storms, and a power outage on the last day of shooting when we still had one crucial scene to do!”
and work 12- and sometimes 18-hour days, just like a feature film shoot. “People think, ‘Oh, they went on holiday for two weeks and made a film,'” Nick says with a trace of annoyance in his voice, “but it was hard work. That plunge, which they took to make “Hungry Like The Wolf” and “Save A Prayer,” was not without its hazards. “And so we checked it out, with pictures and things, and we finally decided to take the plunge.” “Our manager went there on holiday,” he says with a shake of his orange hair, “and we were asking him, just by coincidence, where there were temples and jungle, and whatever else - we were describing things we wanted to encompass within our videos, and he said, ‘I went to Sri Lanka not long ago - we should go there.'” Nick Rhodes recalls exactly how they decided to go there. The first locale to benefit from Duran Duran’s wanderlust was Sri Lanka, a largish island off the tip of the Indian subcontinent, frequently described by residents and visitors alike as “the most beautiful place in the world.” When Duran Duran do a video, they do it in style! But what can be next for a band who seem to have already been to every beautiful place in the world? Duran Duran, on location: Filming the Save a Prayer video
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