Who’s here jamming this masterpiece in 2025? Immediately takes me back to my childhood. We didn’t have cable for MTV till late 80’s, so until then we’d watch “Night Tracks” on tbs every Friday night. I’ll never forget seeing this video for the first time. “Doo doo doo doo doo doo… Doo doo doo doo doo doo 🎶 🔥
And the videos, so romantic and beautiful! Mostly all positive. New music is now trash, nothing original, rap all about hookers, guns, drugs. No rebels in music anymore, now they love the Machine and are slaves to it. Such a pity - meh.
Oh hell yeah 👍🏻💯 I graduated in '82 and my first favorite band was Styx. I've been enjoying trips down memory lane, so MUCH great music from Led Zeppelin, Heart, AC⚡DC to Duran Duran, I wouldn't trade growing up when I did for anything. I lean towards metal but still love classic rock and the songs I grew up with.
Synth pop, New Wave, New Romantics, ska, alternative, second British Invasion, NWOBHM, house, techno, industrial, goth, post-punk, power pop, jangle pop, Hi-NRG, Hip Hop, Rap, free style, New Jack Swing, college rock, Prince’s Minneapolis Sound, all happening for the first time in the eighties-the most creative and diverse musical decade of the rock era that will never be surpassed. Wouldn’t trade anything for being a teenager witnessing and discovering all that-if I only knew how lucky I was at the time.
Yes. As a fan of Rush and Iron Maiden, I am very partial to songs and groups that don't bury the bass. A shame that I didn't appreciate this very much back in the day, but I got better!
Five hundred or a thousand years from now youd probably be able to, literally. Actually their Girls On Film music video would be even better! Minus the sumo wrestler, ha haa haaa!
I agree the saxophone was definitely smoking. It's so strange, I think in New Religion or one of their other songs, Duran Duran seems like they ate about to go into a JAZZsession, only to bring it back to Rock, Duran Duran Style.
JT is thumping, popping, groaning his bass. Stopping, sliding, holding up the melody even. And the mix between him and that ass blasting SAX. This Duran piece is GOLD.
I was 17 in 1983, and Duran Duran was one of those moments when the music changed, and now it belonged to 'us,' our generation! Thanks Duran Duran for the music and memories!
One of the sickest bass lines ever written in my opinion... I know a lot of true musicians can really appreciate the complexity of this KICK ASS BASS LINE!!!! DURAN DURAN IS THE BEST 80’s GROUP EVER!!!!
Best bass? Did you ever hear "Pulling Teeth" Cliff Burton? or Anything from Getty Lee, or Les Claypool ? Like the song, not EVEN close to the greats though!
As a bassist myself. John Taylor so underrated as a bassist. This man rocked that bass. Just listen to his speed and precision. He had once stated that he admired Bernard Edward the late bassist for the group Chic one was in a class all by himself. This' one of my favorite Duran songs from that era.
@@jonbongjovi1869 mick was friend of duran duran, the bassist can't do a line good enough. mick show him his idea for the song, it works so well that they use it
As a metal fan I have to say JTs bass is right up there with anyone I listen to. Been watching his TH-cam bass tutorials-absolutely excellent. Blokes a genius!
Thanks for teaching me some real facts not just gossip. ❤ ta. I'm a total metal head too but sometimes we have to make exceptions. Do you like soulfly "shutdafukup" give it a go. Or pantera "walk". Great song but they were white supremacists so I hate racism and keep them to myself except for in the car so loud I've forgotten people's reaction, it's for me not them
More into Sabbath/Maiden/UFO/Saxon etc Alena-but also like the Cure/The Damned/Sisters of Mercy/The Jam/Ian Dury-anything that involves a bit of talent and a great song is fine by me!
THIS VIDEO ENCOMPASSES THE 80'S!!! So much color , crazy fashions and such original sounds. I truly believe I grew up in a time full of originality. LOVE BRITISH POP!!!
The First Music Video Absolutely MODERN. When Duran Duran Conquered the World as The Kings of New Wave. Thanks, Russel Mulcalhy. You created this Masterpiece and made the REVOLUTION.
One thing that made the 80s great were that we were all stoned and we shared mutual respect for each other and of course the main thing the music.and did I mention we were stoned.class of 1985 great year indeed.
Duran Duran posters all over my wall growing up. Roger is one of the best drummers ever, John Taylor kills it as a bassist. The whole band is ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!! they are so amazing that my 24 year old son loves them... ❤❤❤❤
A friend worked as a crew member on that charter yacht during the filming. 30 years later we rebuilt her at a boatyard in Maine. Built in 1926 and still going strong. Schooner Adventuress…
John Taylor has got to be the most underrated bass player in history. Brilliant bass lines in many of his songs. What he has done here in this song is called ghost notes. Very difficult to do, and brilliantly executed.
Exactly. Every single line and riff on Rio as a whole is clean and has a punch to it. He plays a lot of riffs, what you would think Andy Taylor would play. The guy seriously knows what he is doing.
No wonder the eighties were the eighties with this electric charged, powerful, energetic music! Makes you feel that you want to go, go, goooo! Boy did we have a good time, alot to do with great music like this..
Duran Duran could have been the biggest band in the world. And still be today. Changed their formula, lost members, released poorer songs, and that's how history went... But from 1981 to 1985, boy, they were THE kings.
They were worn out from 4 years od success. The drummer retired from what I can remember and the others split into Arcadia and Power Station. Took them years to get back together. Still my favorite, though.
My inner child is delighted. As we age as Gen X, every so often I have to pop over to one of these diamonds from the 80's to recharge. Forever Duranie here!
The most iconic video from the '80s. Song was amazing too. They broke the mold with this video (and the others from this album--"Hungry Like the Wolf," "Save a Prayer," etc. Music videos were never the same after this. And their musicianship was overlooked because of their pretty boy status. Nobody wanted to say that John Taylor was a fucking mean bassist because he was too handsome to be that good. "Girls On Film" got me started on DD, and this album Rio, which I owned, sold me forever on them. Long live Duran Duran!
I think Rio would be an amazing name! I mean, you just know someone named “Rio” would be super cool, right? Plus you’d have a killer Duran Duran track for a theme song. That’s way more awesome than having Michael Jackson’s “Ben” sung at you in middle school, a sappy song from a movie about a dang rat!
@@amyknarr2270 - I’ll never tell. ;) And of course now I think it’s a sweet song, though any tease you get as a kid feels like the sickest burn, so I also hated being called Benji like the little dog. Now I struggle to even see how that was an insult!
@@amyknarr2270 - Rio was a name I would have loved to called my daughter, but unfortunately my husband and I (both huge Duran Duran fans) were never able to produce a daughter, we had 5 boys... All 5 are now also Duranies though!
In 1983 I was 14 year boy and lived in Soviet Union. Duran Duran was one of best group ever that have made a huge influence on me from early 80's. Thanks for music!
The First Music Video Absolutely COOL, MODERN and ICONIC. When Duran Duran Conquered the World as The Kings of New Wave. Thanks, Russel Mulcahy. You created this Masterpiece and made the REVOLUTION.
I’m from the 80’s -90’s era and I love that my 12 year old daughter likes all my music from this era. Puts a smile on my face when I hear her playing 80’s music
Who is here because they grew up in the 80s and with Duran Duran!!! Hard to pick my fave DD song but this video was just so awesome, I remember it practically blew up MTV when it premiered!!!!
Was never keen on Simon Le Bon back in the 80's but this has always been my favourite Duran Duran track. Now regularly play Rio LP when I fire up the turntable. JT is an awesome bass player. ☺️
I just turned 15, Rio plays every night as I go to bed in my bedroom, the CD slides in my brand new Kenwood CD player, Luxman amplifier, and some awesome 80's headsets. Time flies, but this masterpiece lasts a lifetime.
I was a British tourist traveling across the U.S. in 1982. I heard this song on local radio as we were traveling across the Rio Grande. Doesn't get much sweeter than that.
The visuals in this video are insane, 80s were the best! And girl from video is one the most natural girls ever, heard she got married to Monte Carlo millionaire
When I was a teenager in the 80’s I was really into metal and played drums in metal bands. But secretly I played this album over and over because of John and Andy Taylor. Incredible musicians. Also a lot of Police too. What a great time in music.
I've started putting together a playlist called The Best Decade Of Music. It's only got 4 songs including this one right now, but it's a work in progress. If you have suggestions feel free.
These young men were 20, 21, and 22 years old when they recorded this. Their first 2 albums, Duran Duran and Rio, came out in 1981 and 1982. They were all born in 1960, '61, and '62. Damn good musicians and songwriters!
@@stephaniespragg5586 In 1981 he would've been 22 until late October when he turned 23. He is the oldest. So for Rio he would've just turned 23, and for their first album in 1981 he was 22. It's amazing how good they were for so young. That was my point.
I love people who know what and how, your a real fan not just someone who knows 2 songs and nothing else so ta for teaching me facts that I love to know ❤ta.
This song made me move to Brazil and I am about to marry a Carioca. Our apartment cost $150 a month...in a small town north of Rio De Janerio in the state of Rio De Janeiro. She's a looker and has a huge heart. I am a lucky man. Thanks Duran Duran.
This song takes me back to the days of courting my ex wife. Our favorite song. A beautiful, educated, refined, mocha skinned, redhaired beauty from Black River, Jamaica. The exotic beauty of the St. Elizabeth ginger girls are unsurpassed IMHO.
This song fueled my pre-high school experience and molded me into a forever fan of New Wave, I'll never let that go! The MTV era, tans, long hair, high school angst, melancholy, chasing beauty, and the wealth of music that came from it, a little brooding, absurd, dark, kooky, what a fun time! ...and I became a bassist, thanks John, your amazing!
Such a cool group from the 80's. Duran Duran was one of my favorite groups in that era. I play bass, and John Taylor laid down some awesome bass lines on so many of their hits. Rio is one of them.
Bend moje mladosti...osamdesete...bezbrižne i opuštene godine...podjele po slušanju glazbe...rockeri,punkeri,šminkeri,metalci...devedesetih je sve otišlo u p.m....Duran Duran forever in my ❤
The song's lyrics were written by SIMON LE BON, who decided to write about a girl named "RIO" instead of RIO DE JANEIRO, based on a concept that JOHN TAYLOR had about the city: "the truly foreign, the exotic, a cornucopia of earthly delights, a party that would never stop." Instead of the Brazilian beach, it opens with a few lines set in Birmingham, England. Simon explained: "I was in a restaurant in the middle of town and I saw this waitress literally swanning across the floor, and that was how the lyric was born."
Quarantined during Corona virus, thinking of watching this video over and over again on MTV in the early ‘80s and taking for granted how great life was then. WTF happened to the world? :(
I hear you. I saw the Grateful Dead play Buffalo on a beautiful July day in 1990. Then 10 days later keyboardist Brent Mydland died of an overdose, then a week later Iraq invaded Kuwait. To me, the world went to hell after I saw that concert.
Torgo1969 i was born in May 1990. I guess two months of my life was decent lol .. joking aside the worlds always been an awful place, we just hear about it 24/7 now.
When my kid asked me what the 80s were like, I played her this video! Sum’s it up nicely I think! Also, this is one of the reasons why she loves 80s music! ❤
I was a kid in the early-mid 80’s and teen in the early 90’s. I remember borrowing this record from the library just for this song. Love to hear it once in a while. Reminds me of sunny carefree days. 😄
In the early 80s bands like this and several others stood out with their sounds. John Taylor appeared with a notorious bass touch, and most of Duran-Duran's songs would be marked by that very good bass level! Besides the whole band, excellent.
After I got out of the army I fronted a bar band in the 80s in Las Vegas. The 'sexual revolition' from the 70s was finally maturing. 83-86 maybe..87 until AIDS scared he11 out of everyone was a friggin blast.
Rio turns 40! This song and many of theirs has just aged beautifully with time. When I saw Duran Duran in concert in the 80s, everyone stood on their chairs and danced the entire time. Pure joy!
Precisión de perfección en las composiciones que Duran Duran creó y crea, una de las razones por las que considero tener hijos es para mostrarles estos temas y que los amen tanto como yo, crear un gusto musical exquisito y que la música de Duran Duran trascienda por varias generaciones más.
Was praying for a daughter and got confirmed today, was driving home with the wife and this song came on, we will be naming her Rio ❤
Awwwww!!!!
CONGRATS! RIO IS A BEAUTIFUL NAME!
❤❤
Congrats!! That’s an awesome choice for a name
Beautiful God bless all 3 of you
Congrats to Duran Duran on being part of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class of 2022! So very well deserved.
They fully deserve it 100000000%
and overdue
Fosho.....
@@davidschlessinger9945 For sure. Phenomenal band. Absolutely professional and the vanguards of their time.
One of my favourite bands of the 80s so well deserved ... class
John Taylor is a sick bassist. The bass line in this song is just masterful.
he s cute extremely attractive all of em r❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
He added a fusion jazz line to the song...😮😮
GODLIKE. AND VERY UNDERRATED TOO.
I pray he finds the cure. 🤣🤣
Yes, the bass line is maaad!
Who’s here jamming this masterpiece in 2025? Immediately takes me back to my childhood. We didn’t have cable for MTV till late 80’s, so until then we’d watch “Night Tracks” on tbs every Friday night. I’ll never forget seeing this video for the first time. “Doo doo doo doo doo doo…
Doo doo doo doo doo doo 🎶 🔥
No matter what year it is. You are still listening to this gem.
You’re right about that!!!!
like day onw...yes sr
The 80's wasn't a decade, it was an emotion.The iconic voices of some rock singers are just... unforgettable.
@@Jorge_Broa beautiful comment🙌🏻💯
WHEN WILL THE REVOLUTION START TO BRING REAL ROCK BACK. DOES ANYONE OUT THERE HAVE THE SPINE TO EVEN TRY?????? 😊😊😊😊.
@@StuartRyan-yi5ok Youngsters don´t like rock anymore. 21st century music = Just lame songs for slow brains.
There are amazing songs from their second incarnation, too.
And the videos, so romantic and beautiful! Mostly all positive. New music is now trash, nothing original, rap all about hookers, guns, drugs. No rebels in music anymore, now they love the Machine and are slaves to it. Such a pity - meh.
Feeling so privileged to have been a teenager during the 80's. Those were the best times!
That makes two of us. Can you imagine being young and in the prime of your life in today's world? UUgggghh! I am so glad I was a teen in the 80s.
Oh hell yeah 👍🏻💯 I graduated in '82 and my first favorite band was Styx. I've been enjoying trips down memory lane, so MUCH great music from Led Zeppelin, Heart, AC⚡DC to Duran Duran, I wouldn't trade growing up when I did for anything. I lean towards metal but still love classic rock and the songs I grew up with.
Amen to that great times
I was 19 when this album came out. What a great time to be a young adult.
@@Libertygirl76 Best time ever
So glad I grew up in this Era of music. The 80's was the best.
Hell yes it was ✊️😃💯
so true
You could name hundreds of singers and bands.. you’re lucky to name 30 or more nowadays if that
So much great music!
Synth pop, New Wave, New Romantics, ska, alternative, second British Invasion, NWOBHM, house, techno, industrial, goth, post-punk, power pop, jangle pop, Hi-NRG, Hip Hop, Rap, free style, New Jack Swing, college rock, Prince’s Minneapolis Sound, all happening for the first time in the eighties-the most creative and diverse musical decade of the rock era that will never be surpassed. Wouldn’t trade anything for being a teenager witnessing and discovering all that-if I only knew how lucky I was at the time.
John Taylor, maybe the most underrated bassist of all time.
He never gets enough credits as he deserve, even as the founder of duran
No doubt.
Hes anytime but underatted hes a god
The bass on this song is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Yes. As a fan of Rush and Iron Maiden, I am very partial to songs and groups that don't bury the bass. A shame that I didn't appreciate this very much back in the day, but I got better!
I want to permanently live in this music video.
Wish granted person man
Five hundred or a thousand years from now youd probably be able to, literally.
Actually their Girls On Film music video would be even better!
Minus the sumo wrestler, ha haa haaa!
And I live there with you LOL
me too for a long while now lol
Totally
Gosh they truly were way ahead of their time! Watching as a middle aged lady now and the artistic, cheekiness is brilliant.
Wow that transition at 3.40 is fantastic!
Insane bass line and a ridiculous sax solo.
How could you not love this?
Pure sex
I agree the saxophone was definitely smoking. It's so strange, I think in New Religion or one of their other songs, Duran Duran seems like they ate about to go into a JAZZsession, only to bring it back to Rock, Duran Duran Style.
I believe John was was inspired by Jaco at this time.
Straight jacket city
I'd be more likely to describe today's music as insane and ridiculous.
JT is thumping, popping, groaning his bass. Stopping, sliding, holding up the melody even. And the mix between him and that ass blasting SAX. This Duran piece is GOLD.
You make it soundd even sexier, kudos. 😘
I'm reading John Taylor's book right now. The only thing I'm disappointed about is his failure to mention that he's a completely kick-ass bassist.
This bass line is amazing, I love playing along to it, it took me a long time to get it down!
1985
That is art I love it
I was 17 in 1983, and Duran Duran was one of those moments when the music changed, and now it belonged to 'us,' our generation! Thanks Duran Duran for the music and memories!
You're the same age I am, and yes Duran Duran is awesome!!
It belongs to every generation!!
I waa 17 years old in 1983 also and I loved listening to Duran Duran😊 especially this song
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I get 18 that year...what a music time! After the summit...the abyss.
I can't imagine what this song would be like without the bass playing; it really makes this song special. The bass playing is phenomenal! 👍
I agree. It's the reason that this song has bedrock in my mind.
Not easy to play! Several underrated.
It's the bass that lift it to another level. The song would have been a so-so.
Dont forget sax now that is pretty bad ass too..
@@werearethedreamteam3724 Without a doubt. Absolutely. The sax is indeed killer. 😃
One of the sickest bass lines ever written in my opinion... I know a lot of true musicians can really appreciate the complexity of this KICK ASS BASS LINE!!!! DURAN DURAN IS THE BEST 80’s GROUP EVER!!!!
U2 and Depeche Mode do exist too.
@@sevenfootball7tv998 Depeche Mode is definitly the best for me.
as a musician i can say yes, this is a great bass line. although it is not as complex as it sounds. the rhythms make it sound more complicated.
Queen o they started in 70) but u2, Van Halen, many many more, but I do love DD too
Best bass? Did you ever hear "Pulling Teeth" Cliff Burton? or Anything from Getty Lee, or Les Claypool ? Like the song, not EVEN close to the greats though!
As a bassist myself. John Taylor so underrated as a bassist. This man rocked that bass. Just listen to his speed and precision. He had once stated that he admired Bernard Edward the late bassist for the group Chic one was in a class all by himself. This' one of my favorite Duran songs from that era.
His basslines are incredible
it also sounds like these guys are ROXY MUSIC.....meets.....YES!!
(Chris Squire will always be the god of busy bass!)
the bass line here was written by mick karn of the band " japan "...this is why it's sound so cool
@@cammefantaman WHAT??? Tell me more! Is this true? Cuz all the credits are to the DD lineup.
@@jonbongjovi1869 mick was friend of duran duran, the bassist can't do a line good enough. mick show him his idea for the song, it works so well that they use it
Everyone talks about the Bass line but no one talks about the Sax.. 10/10 saxophone
You are so right! The sax kills in this song!
Andy Hamilton is the sax player.
@@paultwiss199 Way to go Andy then
The bass in the sax part...
:-)
As a metal fan I have to say JTs bass is right up there with anyone I listen to. Been watching his TH-cam bass tutorials-absolutely excellent. Blokes a genius!
Thanks for teaching me some real facts not just gossip. ❤ ta. I'm a total metal head too but sometimes we have to make exceptions. Do you like soulfly "shutdafukup" give it a go. Or pantera "walk". Great song but they were white supremacists so I hate racism and keep them to myself except for in the car so loud I've forgotten people's reaction, it's for me not them
I'm totally a metal head but i love a trip down memory lane back to the 80's when I was in HS. Good times, great music. 😊
I'm a metal head to love this song.pantera where white supremacist ???they weren't stop looking into everything.
More into Sabbath/Maiden/UFO/Saxon etc Alena-but also like the Cure/The Damned/Sisters of Mercy/The Jam/Ian Dury-anything that involves a bit of talent and a great song is fine by me!
The bass in this song blows my mind! He's absolutely fantastic! What a great, technical groove he's laying down!
Really all of their shit bro,that’s why I always loved them being black and loving funk.
its a great bass line! The bridge is my favorite part
Yes very technical, even has ghosts notes..
The most underrated bass player ever!
FOR SURE!! 😉
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THIS VIDEO ENCOMPASSES THE 80'S!!! So much color , crazy fashions and such original sounds. I truly believe I grew up in a time full of originality. LOVE BRITISH POP!!!
I totally agree! 80's vibes are strong in this one
And budgie smugglers
i would say the best pure 80's video
txarly2008 creative an original!
The First Music Video Absolutely MODERN.
When Duran Duran Conquered the World as The Kings of New Wave.
Thanks, Russel Mulcalhy. You created this Masterpiece and made the REVOLUTION.
One thing that made the 80s great were that we were all stoned and we shared mutual respect for each other and of course the main thing the music.and did I mention we were stoned.class of 1985 great year indeed.
Duran Duran posters all over my wall growing up. Roger is one of the best drummers ever, John Taylor kills it as a bassist. The whole band is ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!! they are so amazing that my 24 year old son loves them... ❤❤❤❤
A friend worked as a crew member on that charter yacht during the filming. 30 years later we rebuilt her at a boatyard in Maine. Built in 1926 and still going strong. Schooner Adventuress…
I read about the hard life it had. I'm glad it's still sailing the seas.
John Taylor has got to be the most underrated bass player in history. Brilliant bass lines in many of his songs. What he has done here in this song is called ghost notes. Very difficult to do, and brilliantly executed.
Exactly. Every single line and riff on Rio as a whole is clean and has a punch to it. He plays a lot of riffs, what you would think Andy Taylor would play. The guy seriously knows what he is doing.
yeah great musician and every girl I know thinks he was the best looking guy ever. ( im jealous )
Totally agreed, man this dude recorded this one when he was 22 years old!!! Amazing
CABLE GUY!!!!.😂 LOVE THIS SONG LOVE THIS BAND.
Just read his Autobiography,it’s a good read
Simon has a better voice than he is thought to have not just an 80's legend but good voice too.
nah
And still good in his 60s. I heard a recent live performance (online) of The Chauffeur, which takes some control and it sounded fantastic.
And then the eighties were. Duran duran.
Veramente un bel pezzo Pop.
The crew had a fire extinguisher on stand by afterwards for the bass players fingers.
John is surely on 🔥
Damn straight!
That bass line gets me everytime!
fuck off
You get me every time as well
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Besides that the song is a master piece, the video is out of this world, a total classic music video
This iconic music video surely gives 80s retro vibes . The 80s will forever be the best music decade!😁😁
Hell yeah the 80's we're the best!!!!
I concur
Completely agree there …..👍🏻🙏
Bass line is amazing
I'm naming my baby boy 'Río' and I remembered this song.
Greetings from ARGENTINA.
This song has to be in the top 10 of best songs of the 80's hands down.
By the way, one of the greatest baselines of all time.
John Taylor is killing it! Damn that bassline is badass!
The sound, the colors, the images and that wink at 4:20. That's the 80s
YES!!!!!!!!
And what a good time it was. A rich time around the world
No wonder the eighties were the eighties with this electric charged, powerful, energetic music! Makes you feel that you want to go, go, goooo! Boy did we have a good time, alot to do with great music like this..
Yes, well said, the 80s were like this!!!!
Tons of coke
the direction the composition and the colors of this video WOW
I know Right!!!!!
CONGRATULATIONS AND I'm so PROUD OF YOU DURAN DURAN FOR BEING INDUCTED IN THE RRHOF, FINALLY ,it was well way over due.
alive! alive! alive! that's exactly how I felt as a teen in the 80’s❤❤❤
Exactly!!!!
Duran Duran could have been the biggest band in the world. And still be today. Changed their formula, lost members, released poorer songs, and that's how history went... But from 1981 to 1985, boy, they were THE kings.
They were worn out from 4 years od success. The drummer retired from what I can remember and the others split into Arcadia and Power Station. Took them years to get back together. Still my favorite, though.
This song and video defined an era. Love it.
The saxophone solo has got to be the most relaxing thing ever
Whose that playing the sax?
Simon or John?
@@resa.walters I’m pretty sure Simon is.
@@sulekastieber7287 Actually, I doubt that.
It's Andy Hamilton. A very accomplished saxophonist
@@paultwiss199 in the RIO video, I mean.
Their music, lyrics, videos, and fashion are timeless. Duran Duran embraces everything that was great about the 80’s.
My inner child is delighted. As we age as Gen X, every so often I have to pop over to one of these diamonds from the 80's to recharge. Forever Duranie here!
The most iconic video from the '80s. Song was amazing too. They broke the mold with this video (and the others from this album--"Hungry Like the Wolf," "Save a Prayer," etc. Music videos were never the same after this. And their musicianship was overlooked because of their pretty boy status. Nobody wanted to say that John Taylor was a fucking mean bassist because he was too handsome to be that good. "Girls On Film" got me started on DD, and this album Rio, which I owned, sold me forever on them. Long live Duran Duran!
A group of excellent musicians at the top of their game. This encapsulates the 80's perfectly. God it was great.
You know it's a 80s banger when they throw in a sax🎉
Ps this video has no logic but totally works
@@josswhelan293❤
That sax is no joke
@@werearethedreamteam3724 Sax on the beach baby.
No it was the 50s.... 80s were all about keyboards
I loved this song so much I wanted to name my daughter ‘Rio’
Didn’t of course but when I told her she said ‘thank you Mom’ 😊
I think Rio would be an amazing name! I mean, you just know someone named “Rio” would be super cool, right? Plus you’d have a killer Duran Duran track for a theme song. That’s way more awesome than having Michael Jackson’s “Ben” sung at you in middle school, a sappy song from a movie about a dang rat!
My cat is named Ben and I sing it to him.
He doesn’t know about the rat background lol
@@amyknarr2270 - I’ll never tell. ;) And of course now I think it’s a sweet song, though any tease you get as a kid feels like the sickest burn, so I also hated being called Benji like the little dog. Now I struggle to even see how that was an insult!
Aw!
@@amyknarr2270 - Rio was a name I would have loved to called my daughter, but unfortunately my husband and I (both huge Duran Duran fans) were never able to produce a daughter, we had 5 boys... All 5 are now also Duranies though!
In 1983 I was 14 year boy and lived in Soviet Union. Duran Duran was one of best group ever that have made a huge influence on me from early 80's. Thanks for music!
One of the most iconic videos of the 80’s. It’s definitely stood the test of time-.
The First Music Video Absolutely COOL, MODERN and ICONIC.
When Duran Duran Conquered the World as The Kings of New Wave.
Thanks, Russel Mulcahy. You created this Masterpiece and made the REVOLUTION.
Just timeless pure class
I’m from the 80’s -90’s era and I love that my 12 year old daughter likes all my music from this era. Puts a smile on my face when I hear her playing 80’s music
Who is here because they grew up in the 80s and with Duran Duran!!! Hard to pick my fave DD song but this video was just so awesome, I remember it practically blew up MTV when it premiered!!!!
I blasted them back then and I still do.
Me!
Was never keen on Simon Le Bon back in the 80's but this has always been my favourite Duran Duran track. Now regularly play Rio LP when I fire up the turntable.
JT is an awesome bass player. ☺️
GAY
Meeee !!!
These guys being so good at staying in the right groove, for the right instrument in the right song - geniuses
2:44....pure bass bliss along that tenor solo!!
I just turned 15, Rio plays every night as I go to bed in my bedroom, the CD slides in my brand new Kenwood CD player, Luxman amplifier, and some awesome 80's headsets. Time flies, but this masterpiece lasts a lifetime.
I was a British tourist traveling across the U.S. in 1982. I heard this song on local radio as we were traveling across the Rio Grande. Doesn't get much sweeter than that.
You were experiencing what was called the Second British Invasion in the United States
The visuals in this video are insane, 80s were the best! And girl from video is one the most natural girls ever, heard she got married to Monte Carlo millionaire
These guys weren't just pretty boys. They could play the hell out of their instruments.
I am glad to hear a guy say this !!!
In the 80s we called them preps.
Yeah, that bass is pretty insane
John Taylor was only just 22 y/o at the time and he was already a massively gifted bass player.
@@ericzerkle5214 We also called them New Romantics.
40 years later all these DD songs still sounds fantastic
Aaabsolutely
This bassline is _immaculate_ even by Duran Duran standards.
Ridiculous bass line. Jt so overlooked
I see what you did there...
It's *immaculate* like a dream
@@michaelfrazia4569 Don't Hear The Bass Nerd
@@WSPROJECT08 not quite sure what you mean . It makes absolutely no sense so I'm assuming it was written wrong.
Hello fellow member of the brigade✌️🏳️⚧️
I came here because the band I just joined as the bass player has this song on the set list. What an amazing saxophone solo. Cuts like glass
When I was a teenager in the 80’s I was really into metal and played drums in metal bands. But secretly I played this album over and over because of John and Andy Taylor. Incredible musicians. Also a lot of Police too. What a great time in music.
Same here. I was always pure metal but liked early DD a lot. Energetic and full force... like metal.
As you get older you really stop giving a fuck about image and start just doing what you do.
I've started putting together a playlist called The Best Decade Of Music. It's only got 4 songs including this one right now, but it's a work in progress. If you have suggestions feel free.
@@jeremyfrost2636 Coming Home by Peter Schilling and All Night Long by Peter Murphy.
@@BIGBLOCK5022006 I'll check them out.
These young men were 20, 21, and 22 years old when they recorded this.
Their first 2 albums, Duran Duran and Rio, came out in 1981 and 1982.
They were all born in 1960, '61, and '62.
Damn good musicians and songwriters!
Simon would’ve been 24, he was born in 1958
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In 1981 he would've been 22 until late October when he turned 23. He is the oldest.
So for Rio he would've just turned 23, and for their first album in 1981 he was 22.
It's amazing how good they were for so young. That was my point.
I love people who know what and how, your a real fan not just someone who knows 2 songs and nothing else so ta for teaching me facts that I love to know ❤ta.
Did they really do their own songs and so young. I love to learn and have a stranger teach me facts. I thank you stranger for the knowledge ❤ ta
Don't know why weirdos like you mention how old they are. Many people are in their early 20's when they make music.
This song made me move to Brazil and I am about to marry a Carioca. Our apartment cost $150 a month...in a small town north of Rio De Janerio in the state of Rio De Janeiro. She's a looker and has a huge heart. I am a lucky man. Thanks Duran Duran.
This song takes me back to the days of courting my ex wife. Our favorite song. A beautiful, educated, refined, mocha skinned, redhaired beauty from Black River, Jamaica. The exotic beauty of the St. Elizabeth ginger girls are unsurpassed IMHO.
This song fueled my pre-high school experience and molded me into a forever fan of New Wave, I'll never let that go! The MTV era, tans, long hair, high school angst, melancholy, chasing beauty, and the wealth of music that came from it, a little brooding, absurd, dark, kooky, what a fun time! ...and I became a bassist, thanks John, your amazing!
Great song, good to see people are still enjoying that bass......
Such a cool group from the 80's. Duran Duran was one of my favorite groups in that era. I play bass, and John Taylor laid down some awesome bass lines on so many of their hits. Rio is one of them.
Their BEST song by far... Bass is sick and sad solo... What the heck, the whole song is cool !!!
So much joy and energy. Nothing in modern music comes close.
I love the bass comments here! Glad people appreciate and have the ear. Makes my heart happy.
Nick’s keyboard is amazing 🤩
Nick was always my favorite-love him so much.
Bend moje mladosti...osamdesete...bezbrižne i opuštene godine...podjele po slušanju glazbe...rockeri,punkeri,šminkeri,metalci...devedesetih je sve otišlo u p.m....Duran Duran forever in my ❤
This is one of my favorite videos. Duran Dyran was a breath of fresh air in 1983. Great videos.
My brother's on a boat in Thailand playing this song on his trip. HAPPY BIRTHDAY BILLY!!
The first music VHS tape I bought back in 85. Still looks gorgeous. And John Taylor's bass line is still one of the best ever.
The song's lyrics were written by SIMON LE BON, who decided to write about a girl named "RIO" instead of RIO DE JANEIRO, based on a concept that JOHN TAYLOR had about the city: "the truly foreign, the exotic, a cornucopia of earthly delights, a party that would never stop." Instead of the Brazilian beach, it opens with a few lines set in Birmingham, England. Simon explained: "I was in a restaurant in the middle of town and I saw this waitress literally swanning across the floor, and that was how the lyric was born."
I dont know how it is possible to create a genial bassline like this one... John Taylor is a LEGEND
Congrats to Duran Duran on their induction into the RRHoF. it is a well deserved honor. Fabulous concert at the Rosemont Horizon-Chicago in 1984.
Quarantined during Corona virus, thinking of watching this video over and over again on MTV in the early ‘80s and taking for granted how great life was then. WTF happened to the world? :(
I hear you. I saw the Grateful Dead play Buffalo on a beautiful July day in 1990. Then 10 days later keyboardist Brent Mydland died of an overdose, then a week later Iraq invaded Kuwait. To me, the world went to hell after I saw that concert.
Normies + MTV = bad pop songs
So true...
Al Gore invented the internet and now we're here. /s
Torgo1969 i was born in May 1990. I guess two months of my life was decent lol .. joking aside the worlds always been an awful place, we just hear about it 24/7 now.
Yo the bass lines on this song are PHENOMENAL... You only get good stuff like this from rush, and YES!! ok i lied theres alot but these rock
Sounds totally awesome listening really loud thru real headphones, like seriously wow.
Yup!!!
This song puts a smile on my face every time!
This smile puts a song on my face every time.
@@Ophiuchus123456789 yes, if nostalgia don't kill me..
Me too! I just love the sexy sax!
@@Ophiuchus123456789 Every... time!!!!!
@@ilbeda What he said!!
This band is so much more awesome than any other groups of the 80's and 70's, 60's
And 90's
duran duran is still one of my favorites 80s bands but they would tell you their not more awesome than the beatles the stones led zeppelin etc
When my kid asked me what the 80s were like, I played her this video! Sum’s it up nicely I think! Also, this is one of the reasons why she loves 80s music! ❤
You are so lucky to have been alive back then. If I had one wish I would pick to experiences the 80’s and 90’s as a teen. I’m soooo jealous.
I was a kid in the early-mid 80’s and teen in the early 90’s. I remember borrowing this record from the library just for this song. Love to hear it once in a while. Reminds me of sunny carefree days. 😄
This bass player is out of control!
Bass Line getting a lot of well deserved praise but the shimmery synth bit is also iconic. Everything just works in this song!
Musical magic at 1:00 thanks Duran Duran for lighting up the early 80s for kids across the world!
Excellent bridge
One of the best... What a bass line...
honestly, ya’ll need to talk more about jt’s epic bassline! absolute madness! glad he syncopated it. but yeah, what a bassist🥺✨
Agreed🥰
Syncopation was the name of the game for JT!!
Undoubtedly one of the greatest pop songs created. Perfect in every way.
And its not even their best song, imo thats > is there something i should know.
LOL!
The video is perfect in every way also
so true it's catchy and brilliant
This is a great song from way back when. Good stuff!
Yes indeed!!!!!
In the early 80s bands like this and several others stood out with their sounds. John Taylor appeared with a notorious bass touch, and most of Duran-Duran's songs would be marked by that very good bass level! Besides the whole band, excellent.
The end of the song is really awesome. It ends on such a high note of excitement and happiness. Like Life is fucking awesome and worth living.
After I got out of the army I fronted a bar band in the 80s in Las Vegas. The 'sexual revolition' from the 70s was finally maturing. 83-86 maybe..87 until AIDS scared he11 out of everyone was a friggin blast.
Human SVD it’s the best part of the song and that says a lot
Rio turns 40! This song and many of theirs has just aged beautifully with time. When I saw Duran Duran in concert in the 80s, everyone stood on their chairs and danced the entire time. Pure joy!
Just saw them last night and that's what I did!!! Not on the chair though, but standing!!
Precisión de perfección en las composiciones que Duran Duran creó y crea, una de las razones por las que considero tener hijos es para mostrarles estos temas y que los amen tanto como yo, crear un gusto musical exquisito y que la música de Duran Duran trascienda por varias generaciones más.