More Duran Duran to DVD - Arena/Sing Blue Silver
03-20-04, 12:01 PM
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More Duran Duran to DVD - Arena/Sing Blue Silver
These come out in two weeks in the UK, a little over a month in the US.
Arena
Sing Blue Silver
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http://www.duranduran.com/
Duran Return to "Arena"; Two DVDs planned for summer release
Duran Return to "Arena"
Two DVDs planned for summer release
A pair of Duran Duran films from the classic days will be issued for the first time on DVD on May 4th, both augmented with bonus material. Arena and Sing Blue Silver follow last year's Greatest, which compiled Duran's videos, a set that has since been certified platinum.
Arena captures a 1984 performance by DD in Oakland during the world tour of the same name. Hardly a basic tour film, the Russell Mulcahy-directed Arena fuses the concert with footage with a live-action narrative in an odd self-referential manner that includes actor Milo O'Shea, who portrayed the character in the Jane Fonda vehicle Barbarella, from whom the band took its name.
The Arena DVD will be packaged with a documentary about the making of the film, an interview with singer Simon LeBon and additional extras. The Arena CD has also been updated for reissue, with the ten-song original padded with two additional cuts, "Girls on Film" and "Rio."
Also set for release is Sing Blue Silver, a behind the scenes documentary filmed throughout the three-month Arena tour. The DVD will include behind-the-scenes material as well as performance footage mixed in 5.1 surround sound.
The 1984 Arena Tour looked to be the last hurrah for the classic Duran Duran lineup -- LeBon, keyboardist Nick Rhodes, bassist John Taylor, guitarist Andy Taylor and drummer Roger Taylor. The group appeared at Live Aid (which, coincidentally, will also be released on DVD this winter) in 1985, after which Roger and Andy Taylor departed, with John leaving in 1996. Though LeBon and Rhodes continued as Duran Duran, all five members didn't record or perform together until last year, when the group announced plans for a tour and a new album.
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Too bad "When The Lights Go Down," the version of the concert without the interstitials, isn't on there.
Arena
Sing Blue Silver
And from
http://www.duranduran.com/
Duran Return to "Arena"; Two DVDs planned for summer release
Duran Return to "Arena"
Two DVDs planned for summer release
A pair of Duran Duran films from the classic days will be issued for the first time on DVD on May 4th, both augmented with bonus material. Arena and Sing Blue Silver follow last year's Greatest, which compiled Duran's videos, a set that has since been certified platinum.
Arena captures a 1984 performance by DD in Oakland during the world tour of the same name. Hardly a basic tour film, the Russell Mulcahy-directed Arena fuses the concert with footage with a live-action narrative in an odd self-referential manner that includes actor Milo O'Shea, who portrayed the character in the Jane Fonda vehicle Barbarella, from whom the band took its name.
The Arena DVD will be packaged with a documentary about the making of the film, an interview with singer Simon LeBon and additional extras. The Arena CD has also been updated for reissue, with the ten-song original padded with two additional cuts, "Girls on Film" and "Rio."
Also set for release is Sing Blue Silver, a behind the scenes documentary filmed throughout the three-month Arena tour. The DVD will include behind-the-scenes material as well as performance footage mixed in 5.1 surround sound.
The 1984 Arena Tour looked to be the last hurrah for the classic Duran Duran lineup -- LeBon, keyboardist Nick Rhodes, bassist John Taylor, guitarist Andy Taylor and drummer Roger Taylor. The group appeared at Live Aid (which, coincidentally, will also be released on DVD this winter) in 1985, after which Roger and Andy Taylor departed, with John leaving in 1996. Though LeBon and Rhodes continued as Duran Duran, all five members didn't record or perform together until last year, when the group announced plans for a tour and a new album.
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Too bad "When The Lights Go Down," the version of the concert without the interstitials, isn't on there.
03-20-04, 12:31 PM
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Originally posted by digitalfreaknyc
When will Madonna get off her ass and release her concerts like this.
When will Madonna get off her ass and release her concerts like this.
