![]() ![]() Ordinary World emerged relatively early in sessions for the album, and its razor-sharp melodic hook gave the band confidence that they were on the right track. Le Bon’s assured vocal is among his best, and the track, picked as the obvious first single from the 1993 album billed Duran Duran (but largely referred to as “The Wedding Album”), was an immediate hit with critics. It’s one of those everyman songs with lyrics that anyone can identify with: the acknowledgement of what has been lost paired with a fragile confidence in the ability to step forward. Ordinary World was written by lead singer Simon Le Bon about his late friend David Miles and struck a chord with some of the political angst of that era. With dance and grunge music at the apex of cultural and commercial momentum, there seemed little space for a band now a decade into a career that had seen them transform from new-wave pioneers to New Romantic titans and then, latterly, musical magpies, rifling through different genres as they pleased. He was back the next day with the lyrics and the melody and I think we finished the vocals the day after that.Duran Duran’s beloved ballad Ordinary World came at a critical crossroads for the group, as the fragmentation of the music scene at the end of the 80s and early 90s witnessed a brutal disregard for much that had gone before. When Nick arrived that afternoon, the intro was carved into a song that we played to Simon that night. One day, we took the drum loop and bass groove from a demo of mine called “Face to Face” and added the ultra cool guitar riff that Warren had come up with for a new ‘cover’ version of “First Impression”.Īfter a couple of hours of tweaking, we played the track over the phone to Capitol in Los Angeles and they loved it and said they wanted it on The Wedding Album! We had most of it done in a day.Īt the time, we had completed and mastered The Wedding Album and had started the cover album Thank You. We should put it on the album.’ And so the story goes. It was the last piece of music to be added to the album, so it was really almost an afterthought: ‘Hey, we’ve written this and it’s pretty good. ![]() ![]() I wish he had played on it in the studio, but he was in LA and we were all in London. It’s one of the very few songs that we’ve ever written, certainly whilst John was in the band, that he didn’t play on, and he plays it beautifully live. Simon came up with a really great melody – we already had the 'can’t ever keep from falling apart’ section – and he very quickly made it his, or himself part of it. It was something that Warren and I started writing alongside some other stuff that we’d been playing around with, and Simon came in and heard what we were doing. Even though this is one of the best-known songs of the band, it was added to The Wedding Album only during the last recording sessions, as it was originally recorded for a side-project by Nick Rhodes! The instrumentation, substained by a sample of the legendary instrumental break “Ashley’s Roachclip” by The Soul Searchers, was cured by Warren Cuccurullo, the group’s guitarist at the time, whereas the lyrics were written by the lead singer Simon Le Bon as a gift for his wife Yasmin. “Come Undone”, as well as the previous single, is supposed to be a significant marker of Duran Duran’s entry in adult contemporary radio format. The song was released in March 1993 as the second single, after the international hit “Ordinary World”, from the album and it had a considerable success, entering in the top ten in all the most relevant charts in the world and reaching number one in Israel. “Come Undone” is the sixth track of The Wedding Album by English band Duran Duran, published on Februby the label Capitol (for the US), Parlophone UK and EMI Music. ![]()
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