Played MTV New Year’s Eve Rock n’ Roll Ball

The band began 1983 at the Palladium in New York playing the MTV New Year’s Eve Rock n’ Roll Ball with “Hungry Like the Wolf” still climbing the charts in the US, and the American reissue of the “Rio” single to follow in March. To satisfy America’s appetite for their music, the band re-released their eponymous first album in the US in the middle of the year with the addition of the new single ” Is There Something I Should Know? “. Upon its release, this song entered the chart at number one in the UK (a rarity then and their first chart-topper in their home country) and reached number five on the American charts. During the promotion of this album, Rhodes and Le Bon were MTV guest VJs for a show, during which artist and admirer Andy Warhol dropped by to greet them. “Our first gigs in the United States were crazy and culty”, Rhodes said later, “But when we came back after ‘Hungry’ was a hit, it was mayhem. It was Beatlemania . We were doing a signing of the ‘Girls on Film’ video at a store in Times Square . We couldn’t get out of the store. The cops sealed off the streets.” Also in 1983, Rhodes produced the UK number one and US number five hit ” Too Shy ” for English band Kajagoogoo and Andy Taylor became the first member of Duran Duran to get married.