Even with Duran Duran on hold, band members were soon anxious to record new music, leading to a supposedly temporary split into two side projects. John Taylor and Andy Taylor wanted to break away from the Duran Duran sound and pursue hard rock material; they collaborated with lead vocalist Robert Palmer and Chic ‘s drummer Tony Thompson to form the rock/ funk supergroup the Power Station , releasing two top 10 singles. Le Bon and Rhodes wanted to further explore Duran Duran’s atmospheric aspect and formed Arcadia , releasing one album ( So Red the Rose ) and an accompanying single (” Election Day “). Contributors to that album included guitarist Masami Tsuchiya , bassist Mark Egan , percussionist David Van Tieghem , drummer Steve Jordan , Sting , Herbie Hancock and David Gilmour of Pink Floyd . Roger Taylor was a drummer for Arcadia as well as contributing percussion to the Power Station album. According to Rhodes, the two side projects “were commercial suicide… But we’ve always been good at that.” The band regrouped to contribute ” A View to a Kill ” to the 1985 James Bond film of the same name . This single was the first Bond theme to go to number one on the US charts, and was at the time the joint highest-placed Bond theme on the UK chart where it reached number two. It was the last single the band recorded as the original five-piece for close to twenty years.
Contributed James Bond theme
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