MTV Unplugged
live album
Venue	Sony Music Studios, New York City, NY, USA
Recorded	17 November 1993
Released	1993
Label	BBG
Format	CD
Length	14 tracks
Genre	Acoustic Pop
Producer	Duran Duran
MTV Unplugged
Duran Duran

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

About the albumEdit

The album is the complete 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 bonus tracks on the album are three acoustic performances broadcast on UK radio. "Crystal Ship" was performed by Simon Le Bon and Warren Cuccurullo with only an acoustic guitar. It was broadcast across the UK on Simon Mayo's BBC Radio 1 breakfast show from London.

Track listingEdit

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

Bonus tracks:

1. "Crystal Ship" (BBC Radio 1 Simon Meyo Show - acoustic version)
2. "Ordinary World" (BBC Radio, London, May 2000)
3. "Starting to Remember" (BBC Radio, London, May 2000)

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

See alsoEdit

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