This is a super group featuring Duran Duran’s Andy Taylor and John Taylor with the late Tony Thompson and late Robert Palmer on lead vocals. “Communication” is one of my favorites from this record.
Communication changes in the technology we use, however we should always try to focus on the message and being clear and concise. It’s a say what you mean and mean what you say sort of thing. The conversations in your head need to sometime be open to those who need to hear what you are saying.
I miss the 1980’s a little.
With the Olympics starting tonight in Rio this seems appropriate. From 1982 this is “Rio” by Duran Duran.
Aug. 1, 1981, might not immediately come to mind as an important date in history, but to a generation of music fans, it was monumental. On that day, 35 years ago, a cable TV channel that played music videos around the clock made its debut.
Source: 35 years ago, MTV debuted and video killed the radio star
I grew up on MTV back when it played music. Much of my youth was spent in front of the TV watching bands like Duran Duran, Van Halen, Asia, Queen, Toto, Dexy’s Midnight Runners, Aha, Hall and Oates, Scorpions, Culture Club, Europe and more.
It was where Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Prince, David Bowie and other artists made a name for themselves to a brand new audience. Without MTV, my teen years would have been very different.
The music video was something imaginative, something profound. The notion of bringing a piece of music to life in a visual way wasn’t really new but it was perfected because of MTV and other services.
Nowadays they do reality TV and other non-music related programming. I hear that is changing soon but we shall wait and see. As we said back in the day “I Want My MTV”
From the group Genesis this takes a hard look at the events of the day in the 1980’s. There was a lot of confusion as to what was good and bad, much like today.
This song from 1988 (the year I graduated from High School) still resonates with me because of its message and ferocity. The group knows how to tell a story about people who have become a cult of personality.
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