A bottle of liquor sits on the table while he shoos away a vendor with a monkey. Seventeen seconds into the video, we see Simon Le Bon sitting in an exotic café wearing a hat and glacier glasses. The band has said that the video is like an Indiana Jones movie, but he’s looking for a girl for the night. "Hungry Like the Wolf" is one of Duran Duran’s biggest hits. “Burning the ground, I break from the crowd.” ~ Hungry Like the Wolf Now you can live out your own Duran Duran fantasy.
This article lays out where you can go to visit and re-create those videos. At one point, he even wanted to build a temple for himself on Sri Lanka. What’s the difference?ĭuran Duran chose Sri Lanka after one of their managers, Paul Berrow, vacationed there and loved it. After all, people travel to Austria to see where Mozart lived. And now there’s no one stopping me from pursuing my quixotic idea of going to Sri Lanka to visit the spots where those videos were filmed. Thirty years later, I would like to believe that I’ve grown into a responsible adult: An attorney with a solo law practice in Los Angeles, but I am still a fan. "Rio" (filmed in Antigua) featured Simon Le Bon sitting on the front of a sailboat coolly singing the chorus, dressed in Antony Price suits, with the water and wind rushing by as his band mates posed dashingly in the background. Then came Duran Duran with videos that were practically movies with adventure and cool stories. People like David Bowie were exceptions who added artsy touches. Prior to this, most music videos were performance pieces with a few flourishes thrown in. I was a little kid who thought there was no one cooler than Simon Le Bon and Duran Duran who ventured into the third world singing pop music.
I got over this when I decided to go to Sri Lanka for the sole purpose of visiting the locations where Duran Duran filmed their music videos for "Hungry Like the Wolf," "Save a Prayer," and "Lonely In Your Nightmare." In 1982, Duran Duran was larger than life. It’s like being told to eat my vegetables. I feel peer-pressured into going to “serious” sites in order to “fully experience” a country. Many snobby people take their traveling too seriously. He loved the band's trifecta of videos filmed in Sri Lanka and decided to travel there himself to see the sites he watched over and over again on MTV.to follow is his travelogue of the experienceįOLLOWING IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF DURAN DURAN IN SRI LANKAĪs a traveler, I get a little tired of guidebooks, tourist bureaus and other travelers guilting me into visiting “culturally important” sites. * Imagine if you could re-create some of the best moments from seminal Duran Duran videos: Lawyer (and fan!) Marc Weitz did just that.
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