He accidentally swallowed some, and had to be hospitalised during the band's subsequent Australian tour due to a tropical virus he contracted at that time. Single Version: at approximately 4:35 "Save a prayer 'til the morning after" is repeated four times until fade out. Planet Earth" • " Careless Memories" • " Girls on Film" • " My Own Way" • " Hungry Like the Wolf" • " Save a Prayer" • " Rio"• " Is There Something I Should Know? It sounds like a chorus pedal, which was de rigeur for every fretless bass sound at that time, and I use chorus today on that song .

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Although we do not know the exact dates for the writing and recording of this song, it is safe to assume it was written in early 1982. The video was filmed by director Russell Mulcahy among the jungles, beaches, and temples of Sri Lanka in April 1982. According to Le Bon, the chorus of the song was based on Gordon Lightfoot's folk song " If You Could Read My Mind". There's something about the tune and the sounds used, except for Andy Taylor's guitar tone in the solo, which sounds more like a hair-dryer to my ears.One of the finest, perhaps the finest, was "Save a Prayer," a lilting epic from Rio that has a special place in the heart of every Duran Duran fanatic. For good measure, he then figured out a complementary melody line on the Roland Jupiter-8 synthesizer. We've been asked whether "Somewhere Only We Know" is about a specific place, and Tim has been saying that, for him, or us as individuals, it might be about a geographical space, or a feeling; it can mean something individual to each person, and they can interpret it to a memory of theirs. The line "so that the others may do" tells of something which must be done for others to follow suit. He sums up "Save A Prayer" as "It's definitely a freedom song but like a kinda nobody owns anybody kinda song.

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The music maintains the stormily romantic quality of the lyric by combining meditative verses with an aching chorus that swells and ebbs in a way that perfectly captures the song's heartbreak. The visual earned plenty of airplay on MTV with its shots of the ancient rock fortress of Sigiriya and the ruins of a Buddhist temple at Polonnaruwas as well as the island's southern coastline. Capitol Records released an edited version as the B-side of the single "Save a Prayer" (US Single Version) in the United States in January 1985.And I found a setting where I could actually get the delays completely in time; which sort of almost doubled the tempo of the notes that I had. Scenes were filmed atop the rock fortress of Sigiriya, and among the ruins of a Buddhist temple at Polonnaruwa, and the island's southern coastline, with Simon Le Bon appearing in Speedos.

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The lyrics actually do make much sense but it can be interpreted differently (why he has to pray the morning after the one-night-stand?Cash Box said that the live version "attests to the faithful sound of Duran Duran’s show while betraying a certain sedimentary element of the arrangement, the harmonies are there as are the lush backing synthesizers, yet a muddy mix makes the original studio cut favorable. And, of course, most artists will tell you the song means what you want it to mean, and it means something different to each listener.

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With the nostalgic sentiment and the overall tone of the song, I think Keane is attempting to express a Portuguese term known as 'saudade', which does not have a direct English translation but roughly means "that which we remember because it is gone. This song is timeless, and nearly 20 years after its creation, still possesses the mystique it did the first time i heard it ~1994. I haven't posted on this forum for a very, very long time (if ever at all) but I thought I would share this with you, considering it has been discussed on many forums round the world, including this one: http://www.The release was accompanied by a new live video, drawn from footage shot in 1984 for the concert film Arena. And at one point, the elephant Roger was sitting on went charging over the pool, climbed on top of this other elephant, and started to hump it, with roger sat on the back of it. My interpretation of the meaning is very simple - two lonely strangers meet up in presumably a foreign place (this I figured from the exotic location in the video) and hook up for one night with no intention to take it any further than that. This is a simple Jupiter 8 synth strings patch (not a flute or anything else) played in Unison mode with a slowish attack and not too long a release time with added chorus and reverb. Indeed, some other bands would have just put an instrumental on the b-side and kept Hold Back The Rain for a future single.