{"id":38100,"date":"2026-02-02T07:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T06:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/duran-duran-the-new-romantic-kings\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T07:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T06:56:13","slug":"duran-duran-the-new-romantic-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/duran-duran-the-new-romantic-kings\/","title":{"rendered":"DURAN DURAN: The New Romantic kings?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/02-02-1981-Duran-Duran-Planet-Earth-550x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-36684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/02-02-1981-Duran-Duran-Planet-Earth-550x550.jpg 550w, https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/02-02-1981-Duran-Duran-Planet-Earth-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/02-02-1981-Duran-Duran-Planet-Earth-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/02-02-1981-Duran-Duran-Planet-Earth-636x636.jpg 636w, https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/02-02-1981-Duran-Duran-Planet-Earth.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>45 years ago on February 2, 1981, <strong>Duran Duran<\/strong> &#8216;s debut single &#8220;Planet Earth&#8221; was released. Did you already know these 5 facts?<\/p>\n\n<p>\u2605 &#8220;Planet Earth&#8221; was particularly well received by the new youth movement New Romantic, which was also partly part of the British gothic scene.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u2605 The sequenced part of this song was recorded with a Prophet 5 synthesizer, while a Roland Jupiter 4 and a Crumar Performer were used for strings and other sounds.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u2605 She celebrated 12th place in her native England. In Australia even 8th place. <\/p>\n\n<p>\u2605 For the music video for &#8220;Planet Earth&#8221;, <strong>Duran Duran<\/strong> worked with director Russell Mulcahy for the first time.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u2605 According to bassist John Taylor, the main motivation for producing the video was to support the growing awareness of the song in Australia through television appearances, rather than traveling there for promotional appearances.<\/p>\n\n<p>Watch the video clip for &#8220;Planet Earth&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/8NF6Qa84mno?si=KgXPcKmcY8fyCl-L\" title=\"Duran Duran - Planet Earth (Official Music Video)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8NF6Qa84mno?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>45 years ago on February 2, 1981, Duran Duran &#8216;s debut single &#8220;Planet Earth&#8221; was released. Did you already know these 5 facts? \u2605 &#8220;Planet Earth&#8221; was particularly well received by the new youth movement New Romantic, which was also partly part of the British gothic scene. \u2605 The sequenced part of this song was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":36685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1177],"tags":[2848,5373,8335],"class_list":["post-38100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-complete","tag-duran-duran-en","tag-history-facts-en-2","tag-planet-earth"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>DURAN DURAN: The New Romantic kings? - Orkus1.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Duran Duran&#039;s debut single &quot;Planet Earth&quot; was released on February 2, 1981. 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