It also later featured in the soundtrack for the 2004 movie Layer Cake, starring Daniel Craig. It is a staple of the band’s live set, and Le Bon even performed it with the late Luciano Pavarotti, with a unique Italian lyric, at a charity concert for War Child. The song has continued to enjoy a strong afterlife. The promo also enjoyed strong airplay on the dominant music-video channels, creating greater momentum in smaller markets across the globe. Ordinary World’s video, directed by the wider album project’s creative lead, Nick Egan, saw the now four-piece (drummer Roger Taylor remained on lengthy hiatus, leaving just Le Bon, Cuccurullo, keyboardist Nick Rhodes and bassist John Taylor on board) filmed in a studio and on location at Huntingdon Gardens, in San Marino, California. Duran Duran were back, match-fit and ready to enjoy their most successful year in more than half a decade. Ahead of that, Ordinary World, which had been given official release on 19 December 1992, peaked at No.3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No.6 in the UK. Momentum built and the growing success saw Duran Duran’s self-titled album rise to priority scheduling. Ordinary World was allegedly leaked (or cleverly marketed) by the band’s stateside label, and a radio station in Florida seized on the recording in a big way, putting it on heavy rotation from the get-go. His masterful guitar riff anchored the song somewhere between all-out pop and the melodic rock direction the group followed across the other 12 tracks that would make up their new album, which also included the big hit Come Undone.Īs in all good stories, there’s a twist. Guitarist Warren Cuccurullo, who had been drafted in to replace Andy Taylor in 1986 and been elevated to a principal player for Duran Duran’s predecessor, Liberty, played a critical part in the song’s construction. Le Bon had been evasive about the inspiration for the lyric, but revealed its true source as part of an interview included with their 2004 Live from London DVD. The first was 'Do You Believe In Shame,' followed by 'Out of My Mind' and 'Ordinary World.' They all deal with the grief and loss he experienced after the death of his friend. Ordinary World emerged relatively early in sessions for the album, and its razor-sharp melodic hook gave the band confidence that they were on the right track. This is the last song of a trilogy written about the death of Simon Le Bon's friend David Miles in 1986. Le Bon’s assured vocal is among his best, and the track, picked as the obvious first single from the 1993 album billed Duran Duran (but largely referred to as “The Wedding Album”), was an immediate hit with critics. It’s one of those everyman songs with lyrics that anyone can identify with: the acknowledgement of what has been lost paired with a fragile confidence in the ability to step forward. Ordinary World was written by lead singer Simon Le Bon about his late friend David Miles and struck a chord with some of the political angst of that era. With dance and grunge music at the apex of cultural and commercial momentum, there seemed little space for a band now a decade into a career that had seen them transform from new-wave pioneers to New Romantic titans and then, latterly, musical magpies, rifling through different genres as they pleased. it just doesn't make any sense to us at all.Duran Duran’s beloved ballad Ordinary World came at a critical crossroads for the group, as the fragmentation of the music scene at the end of the 80s and early 90s witnessed a brutal disregard for much that had gone before. "But we've covered so much ground in the last 15 years - and are still covering new ground - that when people dig up old things and try and make it nostalgic, well.
"It wouldn't surprise me that there is such a thing," he says. This song is about learning to deal with a new. Still, Rhodes seems uncomfortable with the notion that some of the interest in his band's back catalog stems from the burgeoning wave of '80s nostalgia. When that person leaves or is taken from you, your world is no longer wonderful or special. So we're playing about four or five songs off the new album, and then the rest of it spans right over our career." We've written a lot of songs, and I think your duty when playing live is to the audience, to give them a lot of what they want. "Particularly when Duran Duran has existed now for something like 15 years. "When we were putting the set together, we felt that playing the new album and ignoring all the old stuff really wasn't what audiences would want to see," says Rhodes. In addition to plenty of visual spectacle, Duran Duran's current show also delivers a healthy selection of hits.
"It's unlike any show any rock band's ever taken out before, that's for sure." It's incredibly unique, and quite elaborate. "We have a show designed by an opera designer from England out with us. "Because 'Ordinary World' got leaked out to radio in advance, we had to start preparing ourselves for a different type of a show than we probably would have taken out," he explains.
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