Duran Duran's Rio

In the '80s, the Birmingham, England, band Duran Duran became closely associated with new wave, an idiosyncratic genre that dominated the decade's music and culture. No album represented this rip-it-up-and-start-again movement better than the act's breakthrough 1982 LP, Rio. Via extensive new interviews with band members and other figures who helped Rio. succeed, this book explores how and why Rio. became a landmark pop-rock album, and examines how the LP was both a musical inspiration. and a reflection of a musical, cultural, and technology zeitgeist.