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Red Carpet Massacre

DDW: the united memory of all the fans

Red Carpet Massacre
Red Carpet Massacre cover
Album by Duran Duran
Released November 13 2007
Recorded 2006/2007
Genre New Wave, rock, synth pop, alternative rock
Length 49:13
Label Epic Records
Producer(s) Duran Duran
Danja
Timbaland
Justin Timberlake
Duran Duran chronology
Astronaut
(2004) 		Red Carpet Massacre
(2007)

Red Carpet Massacre is Duran Duran's thirteenth and latest studio album, released on November 13, 2007 in the USA and November 19 in Europe.

Most of the music on the current incarnation of the album was completed in late 2006 after Andy Taylor left Duran Duran, when music producer Timbaland began working with the band.

Contents

[edit] Early sessions

The band did its initial recording for its follow-up to Astronaut with producer Michael Patterson between September 2005 and April 2006. Roger Taylor said in March of 2006, "The record will be in some ways a homage to our roots as a band, more direct and a return to our dance and 'new wave' origins," and that they had brought fifteen tracks to near completion.[1]

The record was provisionally titled Reportage and was expected in late May 2006 with a summer tour to follow, but as reported in Billboard, the new album was delayed as guitarist Andy Taylor had a falling out with the rest of the band for unknown reasons. [2][3]

In early October, vocalist Simon Le Bon announced that the band had recorded three songs with famed hip-hop producer Timbaland, his protégé Nate "Danja" Hills and engineer Jimmy Douglass at Manhattan Center Studios during September.[4] Trade magazine Billboard reported that one of those tracks was "Nite Runner", featuring Justin Timberlake, which at the time was expected to be the first single from the album. Two additional songs on which the band worked with Timbaland were titled "Skin Divers" and "Zoom In"." Also mentioned were two other tracks; "48 Hours Later" and "Transcendental Mental".[2]

[edit] Remaking the album

After Andy Taylor departed from Duran Duran, the band decided to rewrite the whole album. Fourteen songs had been completed for Reportage but according to Simon Le Bon: “When we sat down and listened to what we had done on our own, we didn’t feel we had a lead track, so we got in touch with Timbaland, who was the only producer out there that we knew we all liked."

Following the New York sessions in September, Duran Duran moved to Metropolis Studios in London with Danja and Douglass for the next sessions. According to tabloid newspaper The Sun, in March 2007 Duran Duran had one track left that needed a female vocal, and they were trying to arrange to work with Nelly Furtado and/or Lily Allen.[3].

In June, Duran Duran announced on their official website that they were recording yet another track with Justin Timberlake titled "Falling Down". However, it was "Nite-Runner" that the band decided to debut live at the much-anticipated fan-club only Hammerstein Ballroom concert in New York City on 17 June, and that month Le Bon was still touting it as the probable first single in a post to the band's official website.[5] Several other album tracks ("The Valley", "Red Carpet Massacre", "Skin Divers" and "Box Full O' Honey"), were played over the sound system at the concert, but not performed live.

Following the New York concert and a listening party for the media at which the album title was announced, band members Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes, John Taylor and Roger Taylor went back to England to work on some mixes for the album and perform at the Concert for Diana and the Live Earth London concert . They completed one more recording session in New York and then returned to London to put the finishing touches on Red Carpet Massacre.[6]

[edit] Track listing

All tracks written and produced by Duran Duran and Nate 'Danja' Hills unless otherwise stated:

  1. "The Valley" – 4:57
  2. "Red Carpet Massacre" – 3:17
  3. "Nite-Runner" (co-written, produced and featuring Timbaland & Justin Timberlake) – 3:58
  4. "Falling Down" (co-written, produced and featuring Justin Timberlake) – 5:41
  5. "Box Full O' Honey" – 3:10
  6. "Skin Divers" (co-written, produced and featuring Timbaland) – 4:24
  7. "Tempted" – 4:22
  8. "Tricked Out" – 2:45
  9. "Zoom In" (co-written and produced with Timbaland) – 3:25
  10. "She's Too Much" – 5:30
  11. "Dirty Great Monster" – 3:40
  12. "Last Man Standing" – 4:05

Bonus tracks:

  • "Cry Baby Cry" – 3:57 (iTunes and Japan bonus track) [7] </li># "Nite-Runner (Live)" – 4:05 (iTunes UK and Italy bonus track)
      1. "Red Carpet Massacre (Live)" – 3:09 (iTunes UK and Italy bonus track)

    [edit] Deluxe Edition DVD

    • onsists of videos showing the making of the album.
      1. "The Album"
      2. "The Artwork"
      3. "The Video" - the making of the "Falling Down" music video
      4. "The Campaign"
      5. "The Out-Takes"

    [edit] References

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    DURAN DURAN
    Simon Le Bon • Nick Rhodes • John Taylor • Roger Taylor
    Andy Taylor • Warren Cuccurullo • Sterling Campbell
    DISCOGRAPHY
    ALBUMS

    Duran Duran • Rio • Seven and the Ragged Tiger • Arena • Notorious • Big Thing • Liberty • Duran Duran (The Wedding Album) • Thank You • Medazzaland • Pop Trash • Astronaut • Red Carpet Massacre

    COMPILATIONS and EP's

    Carnival • Decade: Greatest Hits • Greatest • Night Versions: The Essential Duran Duran • Strange Behaviour • Singles Box Set 1981-1985 • Singles Box Set 1986-1995

    SINGLES

    "Planet Earth" • "Careless Memories" • "Girls on Film" • "My Own Way" • "Hungry Like the Wolf" • "Save a Prayer" • "Rio"• "Is There Something I Should Know?" • "Union of the Snake" • "New Moon on Monday" • "The Reflex" • "The Wild Boys" • "A View to a Kill" • "Notorious" • "Skin Trade" • "Meet El Presidente" • "I Don't Want Your Love" • "All She Wants Is" • "Do You Believe in Shame?" • "Burning the Ground" • "Violence of Summer (Love's Taking Over)" • "Serious" • "Ordinary World" • "Come Undone" • "Too Much Information" • "Perfect Day" • "White Lines" • "Out of My Mind" • "Electric Barbarella" • "Someone Else Not Me" • "(Reach Up for The) Sunrise" • "What Happens Tomorrow" • "Nice" • "Falling Down"

    RELATED BANDS
    Arcadia • Power Station • Neurotic Outsiders • The Devils


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