Duran Duran - Unplugged
live album
Venue	Sony Music Studios, New York City, NY, USA
Recorded	17 November 1993
Released	1994
Label	On Stage Records
Format	CD
Length	12 tracks
Genre	Acoustic Pop
Producer	Duran Duran
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Duran Duran

Duran Duran - Unplugged is an unofficial Duran Duran live album, recorded at Sony Music Studios in New York City, NY, USA on 17 November 1993.

Contents 1 About the album 2 Track listing 2.1 CD/ON 2300 2.1.1 Bonus tracks: 3 Personnel 4 Full MTV Unplugged set list 5 See also 6 Comments

About the albumEdit

The album is an incomplete recording of Duran Duran's performance at Sony Music Studios, a former music recording and mastering facility in New York City, located at 460 West 54th Street.

Created by MTV, Unplugged is a TV series showcasing musical artists usually playing acoustic instruments.

Duran Duran began their 60-minute show with "Hungry Like the Wolf", featuring Simon Le Bon singing several lines of an introduction with new lyrics.

The band then followed with "Ordinary World", a new song from The Wedding Album which Le Bon introduced by saying "This means a lot to us, about the place we inhabit, our world, the ordinary world."

Performed with a string section, the show also featured acoustic versions of Duran Duran's debut single "Planet Earth" and several more songs from The Wedding Album released earlier that year.

The bootleg is not a full recording, missing the songs "Skin Trade", "Notorious" and "The Chauffeur".

Bonus tracks:

Track 9, "Notorious", is from the live worldwide broadcast of Duran Duran's midnight performance at Tower Records in Hollywood, CA, USA on 15 May 1993. The show was beamed simultaneously to fans in London, Sydney and Tokyo and shown at those cities' Hard Rock Cafes.

"Notorious" is an acoustic version which received official releases as B-sides on various "Too Much Information" CD singles and on the promo-only No Ordinary EP cassette. The track is also available on the World Broadcast album.

Tracks 10, 11 and 12 were recorded during An Acoustic Evening With Duran Duran Tour in Argentina on 30 April 1993.

Track listing Edit

CD/ON 2300 Edit

1. "Hungry Like The Wolf" (6:27)
2. "Ordinary World" (5:27)
3. "Serious" (4:24)
4. "Girls on Film" (5:48)
5. "Rio" (6:18)
6. "Planet Earth" (4:32)
7. "Come Undone" (6:35)
8. "Too Much Information" (5:27)

Bonus tracks:Edit

Tower Records, Hollywood (USA) - 15 May 1993

1. "Notorious" (5:22)

Velez Stadium, Buenos Aires (Argentina) - 30 April 1993

1. "Crystal Ship" (3:05)
2. "Save A Prayer" (7:25)
3. "The Wild Boys" (1:46)

PersonnelEdit

Duran Duran are:

• Simon Le Bon - Vocals
• John Taylor - Bass
• Warren Cuccurullo - Guitar
• Nick Rhodes - Keyboads

With:

• John Jones - Keyboards
• Andy Gangadeen - Drums
• Fergus Gerrand - Percussion
• Curtis King Jr. - Backing vocals
• Lamya - Backing vocals

Supporting strings:

• Yolisa Phahle
• Carol Poole
• Ellen Blair
• Ivan Hussey
• Mineko Yajima
• Mitue Takayama

Full MTV Unplugged set list Edit

1. "Planet Earth"
2. "Hungry Like the Wolf"
3. "Ordinary World"
4. "Serious"
5. "Notorious"
6. "Skin Trade"
7. "Girls on Film"
8. "The Chauffeur"
9. "Come Undone"
10. "Rio"
11. "Too Much Information"

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See alsoEdit

• Duran Duran - 1993 Bootleg CDs
• 1993 - 17 November: New York, NY (USA)