Duran Duran - Sing Blue Silver

Starring:Duran Duran
Studio: Capitol
Product Type: DVD

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Duran Duran - Sing Blue Silver
Starring: Duran Duran
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Release Date: 2004-05-04

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Duran Duran period piece.......2005-12-27

It's ashame a documentary on Duran Duran like SING BLUE SILVER was not filmed in the early 1980s, when the band was still new, edgy and playing smaller venues in America. Instead, this DVD offers up Duran Duran the arena band, with Beatlemania-esqe theatrics in full swing, at the top of their game on their massive 1984 tour. By this time, just like their counterparts The Police at the very same time, their stage show had become bloated, with an extra percussionist/drummer and the obligatory female backing singers being added to the mix, which in the end does nothing but an injustice to bands that clearly rocked with raw energy and emotion when found in their original setting.

Perhaps a DVD of earlier escapades would have caught LeBon, Rhodes and the Taylors when they were not exhausted, physically and mentally, which is clearly evident when watching SING BLUE SILVER. The rigorous schedule the band was maintaining at this time clearly zapped the energy the band always had, and a lot of times they look like they are going through the motions, especially in the backstage interviews and other promotional activities bands of Duran's stature are forced to endure during such a large undertaking as this 1984 tour.

John Taylor is clearly disenchanted and disinterested as the rest of the band looks on, as John speaks for his bandmates as they are introduced to the corporate bigwigs at Coca Cola, who are sponsoring the tour. It's clear LeBon and Andy Taylor think the whole exercise is futile, and then John lets out his famous quip about preferring Pepsi anyway.

Roger Taylor looks drained in the backstage footage and can usually be seen laid out on a couch after the show, which eerily foreshadows his reasoning for departing the band, citing exhaustion in 1986.

The performances by the band lack the rawness and edginess Duran offered up in their early days, or even now in 2005 as the original lineup has reunited and undertaken a series of successful concert tours over the last several years. The female backing vocalists and extra musicians clearly muddy the mix and distract from their musical talents, in particular the Taylors, who left to their own devices, can really rock out on stage.

Otherwise, SING BLUE SILVER is a fun period piece if you are like me and remember the good old days that were the 1980s. It's fun to see the teenagers filing into the arenas in their `80s garb, and even funnier when one girl outside the arena being filmed is only interested in if this footage is going to appear on MTV. However, if you are looking for raw and rocking Duran Duran, my suggestion would be to skip this DVD and purchase LIVE IN LONDON instead, a complete live concert from their week-long stand at Wembley in 2004. After watching the 2004 performance, you will probably come away thinking that Duran Duran are, in fact, better today, as the band has never sounded or sang better, and the presentation at Wembley overall blew me away. SING BLUE SILVER is a nice period piece, documenting what would end up being the pinnacle of Duran's success in the `80s, but ultimately finding a tired and unenergetic band.

DURAN DURAN SING BLUE SILVER DVD.......2005-10-09

AS A DURAN DURAN FAN FOR OVER 20 YEARS,BUYING THIS DVD BROUGHT BACK ALOT OF MEMORIES OF THEIR 1984 U.S. TOUR.IT WAS FUN TO WATCH-OF COURSE IT COULD HAVE BEEN PUT TOGETHER A LITTLE BETTER BUT IT WAS 1984 AND WE DIDNT CARE!AS LONG AS WE GOT TO SEE DURAN DURAN.LOVE THIS GROUP AND LOVE THE DVD.

Duran Duran - Sing Blue Silver Review.......2005-08-24

I love this DVD. I like how they put the DVD together. They chose very appropriate songs for the different scenes. I especially like that they play "Tiger Tiger" during the opening scene when the semi trailers are traveling down the highway in the desert. "The Chauffeur" plays during the scene where the limousines transporting the band are driving down the highway in the snow and ice. It is perfect. The live concerts are spectacular! The DVD contains the best version of Careless Memories I have ever heard. I love the interviews with the band. There is nothing contrived about it. They are so genuine and highly energetic. You really get to see a side of the band that you've never seen before. I highly recommend you buy this DVD.

AS GOOD AS MEETING THEM!.......2005-08-18

I have hung out with the band before (experience of a life time) It was the most amazing thing ever and nothing can compare. But for people who won't get the chance to be kissed by Mr. Simon Le Bon, this is the next best thing, the DVD brings you so close you feel like you just met the boys. For any Duran Duran fan I suggest you watch it.

Duran Duran - It's 1984 Again.......2005-08-09

If you were a teenage girl in 1984, your life probably revolved around three things - clothes, your friends, and Duran Duran. Although I never had the opportunity to see the original Fab Five on this tour - I had to wait 20 years for that - watching this dvd makes me feel like I did. It's amazing, even though I may be "mature" now, married with children and loads of responsibilities, I slip in this DVD and I get all sweaty and expect to look up at my bedroom walls and see it covered with Duran Duran posters, Simon Lebon staring down at me while I sleep. For an hour or so, I am magically transported back to 1984, when life was simple, yet so complicated. I get butterflies in my stomach, get all giggly, and watch to grab the phone to call my best Duran friends, only to remember that, alas, those friendships fell apart the minute we graduated and went to college. You really get caught up in the excitement that was 1984, all the flurry, the fashion, the excess. What a great decade - who wouldn't want to relive it (well, for a few moments, anyway).

If you are a Duran Duran fan, there really is no excuse for not having this dvd, if for no other reason than to shamelessly escape briefly into the past, where we can let our hearts beat to our foolish, 14 year old passions.

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Sing Blue Silver
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