'Planet Earth' is the debut single by the English pop rock band Duran Duran, released on 2 February 1981.It was an immediate hit in the UK, reaching number 12 on the UK Singles Chart on 21 February, and did even better in Australia, hitting number 8 to become Duran Duran's first Top 10 hit anywhere in the world.
The song later appeared on the band's eponymous debut album Duran Duran, released in June, 1981.
The music video for the song was directed by future film director Russell Mulcahy, who would go on to direct a dozen more for the group.
Fairly primitive by the band's later standards, the video features the band (dressed in frilly, floppy New Romantic fashions) playing the song on a white stage tricked out with special effects to look like a platform made of ice or crystal. Interspersed with the performance are shots of the band members alongside the four elements. The video focused closely on the band's faces. The instrumental middle section features friends of the band from the Rum Runner nightclub dancing in their outlandish outfits. At the end of the video, singer Simon Le Bon leaps from the stage, caught in a freeze frame shot above an apparently bottomless abyss.
For most countries, the B-side track for the 'Planet Earth' single is a concert favorite called 'Late Bar' which was one of the earliest songs Duran Duran had written together after their classic Le Bon/Rhodes/Taylor/Taylor/Taylor lineup had solidified. However, the B-side track for the North American release of 'Planet Earth' is 'To The Shore'.
Click the link below to download the following:
Video
Single Version
Extended Version
Nightime Mix Version
Club Version
Late Bar - B-Side
http://www.mediafire.com/?5dc8k002lee97
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment