In a nod to this satisfaction, the band played "My Own Way" consistently between 19, and in 2006 even dusted it off a few times, segueing right into the song after performing the Power Station's "Some Like It Hot. Roger Taylor, however, was more satisfied: "By the time we cut it for, we slowed it right down, and we got the groove a little bit more where it should be. "I still think that the verse is a lot better than the chorus, you know - 'Saw you at the air race yesterday / April showers, get out of my way.' That was really catchy, but … I don't think that the chorus ever quite fulfills the promise of the verse." "For me, it was always a slightly tricky song," Le Bon said in the Rio look-back interview.
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This time, the band was much happier - mostly. The band would later change up "My Own Way" considerably in early 1982 while recording Rio, slowing down the song, removing the strings and adding touches such as jagged Andy Taylor electric guitar runs and singer Simon Le Bon yelling out the address of New York City landmarks. It was Duran Duran's third top 20 UK single of 1981 and fourth top 40 single overall. The band appeared on Top of the Pops in early December, a few weeks before the song peaked at No.
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The band also filmed a video with director Russell Mulcahy (who had also filmed "Planet Earth") with a red-and-black motif.īolstered by the success of Duran Duran's previous single, "Girls on Film," the "My Own Way" single was another success. Little Do You Know Lyrics Little Do You Know - Annie LeBlanc/Hayden Summerall00:00 LyricistAlexandra Tamposi/Ruth Anne Cunningham/Sierra Deaton/Tobias Gad00:01 ComposerAlexandra Tamposi/Ruth Anne Cunningham/Sierra Deaton/Tobias Gad00:02 Little do you know00:04 How Im breaking while you fall asleep00:09 Little do you know. The frantic disco flourishes came later, as Duran Duran recorded the song with producer Colin Thurston in late October, after returning to the UK from their first trip to the US. While also brisk, that take included different instrumental flourishes: prominent ferocious percussion, light-touch guitar riffs and even a sudden burst of Andy Taylor's signature electric guitar. A demo of "My Own Way" recorded at EMI's Manchester Square headquarters on Aug. To that end, Duran Duran tried multiple times to cut a version of the song they liked. "I made some notes on some of these songs and at the top next to 'My Own Way,' I'd written 'problem child.'" "The single version was very different from the album version," added drummer Roger Taylor in the same interview. … I mean, it was probably the most blatant kind of disco song we wrote." "We were kind of going for a very disco, Donna Summer-y. "The single version of is a little misguided," bassist John Taylor said in a 2017 interview around Rio's 35th anniversary. It felt more like a late-'70s dance-floor fire-starter than a new wave tune - and the band members ended up not quite liking where the song landed.
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Instead, the single take boasted nimble disco strings, a brisk tempo, head-spinning rhythmic grooves and Nick Rhodes' viscous synthesizer blooms.