1984 was Duran Duran hysteria. Great tour! I’ve seen them since but that was just magic. Have to say 38 years later we are all still 13 year olds and giddy on the inside when it comes to them. 😂💁🏻♀️😍
Duran Duran were called the Beatles of the 80’s because of their fan following and how many girls adored them. You are seeing that first hand in this video with the audience reaction to them. Of course, the fans are over-heated from dancing but also screaming in excitement to the point they can’t breathe properly. It’s a bad combo causing them to pass out. Duran Duran has maintained their fan following through out the years and why they had the most fan votes for the Rock n’ Roll Hall of fame!
John Taylor, best bassist of all time He’s won so many accolades, especially over the past 10 Years when most critics have come to realise just how good Duran are
Love your reactions!! (And your hair!!!) ❤️It was exactly Ike this! Absolutely crazy!!! We screamed like there was no tomorrow!! I was 13 and massively in love with Duran then, especially John Taylor the bassist. You don’t even know, lol! I’m 52 now and I still get so crazy excited seeing them live. If you search on You tube there’s an audio recording of Duran playing Madison square garden on March 21, 1984. In the very beginning, you can hear the lull of the crowd and then the lights go down and it was RIDICULOUS!! So loud! Just like Beatlemania. They were amazing! Still are!!
I was a teenager about 14 at this concert in Seattle, WA. It was PANDAEMONIUM in the crowd. I was up in the cheap seats but it was INSANE! This whole album is great and the official MTV videos are incredible as well. Loved your reaction today. I’m 52 this year and I’m so glad they stood the test of time. It was SO great to be there! 😍🥰
And that was the opening song…so those girls missed really seeing the whole show!!! Duranies (myself included) lost control watching these gorgeous talented guys! 😍
This was 1984 and their first US tour. I was 11 when I saw this tour in Oakland, CA. This was the opening song and when they came out onstage, we were all in awe of how incredibly amazing they were. I was sitting way up in the rafters, but could see all the girls passing out and getting passed up to the front. It was quite a site. This whole concert will forever be etched in my memory as one of the best times of my life. Thank you for bringing back some great memories!
Early Duran Duran used to play on Night Clubs but their record company started promoting them on teen magazines and that and MTV made them huge teen idols on the 80s. Their music is a mix of Punk (early days), New Wave, funk, rock, altarnative. Very versatile! For more mature Duran2 watch their 'A Diamond in the Mind' concert. 'The Chauffeur' is a very unique song by them I love. "Last Day on Earth" is them sounding more rock. Great live band even now on their 60s.
When John Taylor (bass) and Nick Rhodes (keys) formed the band, neither one of them knew how to play their instruments. And the fainting girls....well Duran Duran's popularity was compared to when the Beatles arrived in America and the fans, especially the girls would get crushed up against the barriers in front of the stage and have to be dragged over the top and brought backstage to recover. I'd never seen anything like a Duran Duran concert, and was blown away at how crazy it was! And the band, they were AWESOME.
A little late reacting to this video but have to say this song has my favorite line of any song. "Don't say you're easy on me, cause you're about as easy as a nuclear war."
Duran Duran concerts were full of women that went absolutely crazy and most of them would faint or pass out from dancing and screaming and singing their hearts out. I have been to 3 of their concerts in Philadelphia area and it's a mad house with all the young girls and women.
Not correcting by any means. I just recall them mentioning how they were not expecting all the teenage girls going mad for them. Lord knows most of my female classmates at the time were drooling over them. I am curious though, which shows did you get to see? I grew up outside Philadelphia.
@michaelmapes3036 remember her well. Went to more flyers games there (20) than Duran Duran concerts (1 - Astronaut). Also saw then in AC during Pop Trash, and in Upper Darby in 2012.
There were no seats on the auditorium floor and it was full of girls pushing to get to the stage. 1984 @ Lakeland Florida. My friends and I chose to sit in the seats than be crushed. So much energy coming from the stage! Fast forward a year, Florida Fair Grounds for Power Station. I was right on the stage in front of John Taylor (that gorgeous bass player). I had an 80’s perm a few days before the concert. I sweated so much, my perm fell out! I hurt for days from the crush but it was so worth it!
Yea, us DD fans get down like that 😂😂 My fave DD song ❤️ I've seen DD over 20x, yet the only time I came close to passing-out was at a Def Leppard/Europe concert in 1988!! Outdoor concert & we were two rows back from stage & it was soooo hot my friends bailed. I stayed thru the 45 min interlude between Europe to DL, & by their 3rd song the crowd was so packed, my feet were no longer touching the ground! I tried to get out & this like 10ft - 400 lb giant of a man kindly grabbed me & got me thru the crowd ❤️ I found another group of my friends & hung with them, the best concert ever (that wasn't Duran)!! The music was great, but it was the crowd & what ended up being 3 different groups of my friends I got to party with at the show that made that night so memorable ❤️🎶
Duran Duran was about as close as any band ever got to repeating the frenzies of female fans that The Beatles once had. They were literally mobbed everywhere they went in the early 80s, and their concerts were 95% girls. That's why you see so many young ladies passing out and being carried away.
Girls would be so overwhelmed they would just be falling out!!! It was bananas. I literally fractured a rib being smashed against a barricade at a Duran Duran show because people were trying to go through me to get on stage!
The first thing I notice is how good live performances were in the 80’s. How far music has fallen since 2000. Where are the bands, where are the musicians, where are the entertainers? What happened?
Fainting woman over the singer and bass player. Duran Duran was called the Beatles of the 80’s. Woman went nuts for all these gorgeous men along with their music. Massive police force needed as woman would literally try to physically get their hands on them. Best band of the 80’s. Sold the most albums in music history and they are still rocking it on today. 40 years later.
There is a documentary film of D2's 1984 tour, which this concert was part of. It's called Sing Blue Silver (a line from their magnificent song The Chauffeur- an absolute masterpiece itself- with an R rated video you NEVER SAW on MTV). Duran Duran in 1984 was just as much hysteria as the Beatles were in their day- hence why they were dubbed The Fab Five. I would have given my left arm to see them in '84- I was 12 years old and OBSESSED! Just like the girls passing out at the concert! But to pass out and miss the show would have SUCKED! D2 is still making great music! Their latest of MANY MANY albums- Future Past is just as great, and they are on tour! Long live Duran Duran!!
@@thereselee5969 I agree. I'd add from Red Carpet Massacre: The Valley, Skin Divers, Nite Runner & Red Carpet Massacre. From All You Need Is Now: Too Bad You're So Beautiful, The Man Who Stole A Leopard, Mediterranea, Runway Runaway, Girl Panic!, Safe & Leave A Light On. From Paper Gods: On Evil Beach, As Seen From A Distance, Pressure Off & Paper Gods. From Future Past also: Hammerhead, More Joy!, Wing, Nothing Less & Laughing Boy. There are so many songs with great bass lines by John Taylor, it's difficult to choose a few and this is just since 2007.
Lol! Hey U 2 are awsome.What an entertaining reaction.D.D were the '80s top band.They ruled especially the first half part of the decade.All charismatic.Roger is also a fabulous drummer.
The fans used to push so hard people were fainting so bad in so many concerts. Also they talked about writing and recording where they never liked for one instrument to intrude on another so they would all meld but never compete and you could enjoy each one. They were influenced by disco and punk and melded things into their own mode of funk and rock. I know I said Rio, but you should also check out Save a prayer for a beautiful bass line to a slow song, from this concert and also Notorious from a concert in 1996 strange Behavior Tour I believe. Funny enough about them passing out and drenched in sweat. They started this tour with this song, lol.......
John Taylor is one of the GOATs of the Bass. In many songs, his bass playing IS the lead guitar! So freaking happy that they FINALLY got inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame! Long live Duran Duran
I almost got pulled down in front as the crowd rushed the stage at an INXS concert in 1986. Like drowning, because I’m really short! It really scared me. People were to tight together you couldn’t move. I made it to the side and stayed back there where the AIR was. 🥵
Hi guys, I queued to see Arcade Fire in Manchester in 2017. Small 2000 year old Roman amphitheater. The gate opened and I ran to the front. 3rd row, dead center. Waited three hours before they even started. I was rooted to the spot. Monolithic. Best concert ever!! Totally worth it!!
Ok, Is There Something I Should Know was released as a stand alone single in the UK. It was the band's first #1 over there. It made it's debut right at the top. In the US the song was featured on the reissue of the debut album for US market. Both album and single were both top ten hits. Within their first year of hitting the American chart they had two top 10 albums and four to 20 singles. Go watch the original music video if you haven't already. And girl I'm loving your hair!
I’m absolutely addicted to your channel, really loving your videos. I’m a life long Elvis, Iron Maiden and Duran Duran fan, I know right .. what are chances…🤘 So I love it if you guys would react Duran Duran’s full length official video of WILD BOYS it was a ground breaking video for its time and cost huge amounts to make based on Mad Max movie, was you aware the their name came from the movie BARBARELLA
Wolf Hunterz the secret to Duran Duran is the rhythm section of John on bass and Roger on drums, they are three reason this band grooved, their sound and when they struggled later it was because when Roger left to go live life that was unreplaceable with hired hands. Now that he's been back that sound has returned to them live.. When I saw this show you lost count of how many girls got carried out of that arena, it was so loud with the screaming and all the people pushing to the front of the stage.
I saw them on this concert tour in 1984 in Baton Rouge Louisiana and it was just as crazy! It was hard to hear the music because the screaming was so loud.
The bass guitar 🎸 player John Taylor won best best player last year won best bass player and this year no2 he's brilliant awesome amazing 😍 guy who luvs is bass guitars I think he as about 10 plus on there tours to different tracks he plays
Very funny reaction!!!😁 Here in Italy a movie called "Sposerò Simon Le Bon" ( I will marry Simon Le Bon) could explain what happened to all girls in those years
Duran Duran were the biggest band the world-over in the early to mid-1980s. They were part of the 2nd British invasion and they led the way of British Bands. The hysteria seen in the U.S. by The Beatles fans twenty years earlier in 1964 was replicated in 1984. It was the same pandemonium version 2.0 back then. The Beatles were called The Fab Four and Duran Duran was called The Fab Five due to their similar fan reactions.
Simon plays some other wooden Type looking thing also . I’m not sure it’s the harmonica. Love your channel guys . If you ever get to check out a super rare song of theirs it’s “ the chauffeur” it was too racy for prime time television but I’ve seen another reactor cover it
This concert was in 1984… which means it was just less than 5 years removed from The Who concert tragedy in Cincinnati where 11 concert goers were trampled to death, much in the way you described being pushed and not having your feet touch the ground, etc. Concert safety was a priority
SO, Andy Taylor, the guitarist, left Duran Duran to join the Power Station with Robert Palmer and his brother, John Taylor. Great rock band, big in the 80's. After that, Andy did alot of solo work becoming basically a 'hair metal' musician. His solo album and solo singles he released were AMAZING!!! He had MANY songs on soundtracks and a killer solo album called Thunder. His writing partner was Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols. He also produced the British metal band Thunder's first album and co-wrote some of the songs and played on some of them. Andy Taylor really embraced the metal genre of the time. And he was a shredding guitarist!!
NO lol, it was NOT the heat. Hysteria like what surrounded DD and the Beatles doesnt happen anymore. Music has become such a manufactured engine, that there are no true super hero idols anymore. My girlfriend had her bedroom walls COMPLETELY covered from floor to ceiling with DD posters and magazine pictures. It was truly insane.
I’ve never passed out but back in the day when Lalapalooza was actually a concert festival my friend and I saw tons of people passed out from heat exhaustion and partying along the line to get into Fiddlers Green in Denver and it was 100 degree weather and during the show again lots of people passing out
Fans were passing out because they couldn't believe they were seeing Duran Duran live and in person. They were the biggest band in the world and just like how fans were hysterical when The Beatles came to the U.S. in 1964, the same occurred with Duran Duran during this period. The Beatles were referred to as The Fab Four and for the same reason, Duran Duran was referred to as The Fab Five.
@@kyloren1014 That's your experience so that's your truth. However, I've witnessed it firsthand when I went to my first DD show in 1984, and it's been seen in their documentaries like Sing Blue Silver.
I went to that tour. They don't compare them to the Beatles for nothing. The teen screams we're so loud, at times you could not hear the music! And the music was loud. Before they came out, every little curtain twitch a roadie might make, sent the place into an uproar! lmao
If you liked The lead singer Simon LeBon playing cool instruments like the tambourine and harmonica.. check out a live version of "The Chauffeur" where he plays a hand pan flute with mad skills as well!!
Three Taylors in the band none related and John, the bassist was the hottest and funkiest bass player. Combined w the rock guitar of Andy. And the singer Simon Le Bon. How cool. This band was the most talented of all the new romantic bands of the early 80s. Nick Rhodes, looking like a gay Bowie , but straight. It didnt matter. They were all pretty and guys adored them too. Roger is the third Taylor on drums. I adore Duran. And im a metalhead. You should check out John and Andys side project w Robert Palmer. The Power Station. Some like it hot w a drum intro by the drummer from Chic. Tony Thompson. Anyway its v 80s cool. Actually its kida timeless coz their just great songs.
I have attended my fair share of Duran Duran concerts, but that was a bit scary. I feel like there must have been some issues with that venue or something. Seeing them live was a bit overwhelming for sure as a huge fan at the age of about 16, we worshipped them, but that kind of situation is bad. Great reation guys, and yeah, John Taylor is so underrated as a bassist, one of the goats.
There was nothing wrong with that venue or at venues. What you see was the norm due to the hysteria surrounding the band. The pandemonium. The bedlam. The fanaticism. It was the 2nd British invasion version 2.0. replicating what occurred with The Beatles 20 years earlier in the U.S. in 1964. The Beatles were The Fab Four and this is why Duran Duran was tabbed The Fab Five. I went to their Seattle Coliseum show on February 2, 1984, and it was bedlam and the same events with fans happened there just like in the video. In addition, for this tour, Duran Duran filmed their North American tour, which chronicled the same hysteria and the mania - everything seen in this video was prevalent everywhere in the world at Duran Duran shows- It's documented in Sing Blue Silver.
What actually makes John a great bass player is minus the early 80s crap he has some of the most hardest bass lines to learn mainly because of the keyboard stuff
Back then all the girls were in love with Simon, John etc guys and they were swooning at their concerts at the sight of them. What hot and loud speakers you say? Nothing to do with.
This song is very hard to perform live, according to guitarist Andy Taylor because you come into it at the start singing "cold" with no cues for tone etc...
Andy Taylor on guitar John Taylor on bass Roger Taylor on drums (None of them are related btw) Nick Rhodes on keyboard Simon Le Bon on vocals Music of my teenage years