Duran Duran - Sing Blue Silver

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Actor: Duran Duran
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 85 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-05-04
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Capitol

DVD Reviews of Duran Duran - Sing Blue Silver

DVD Review: Best Music Documentary I've Ever Seen
Summary: 5 Stars

This is the best music documentary I've ever seen. Beginning with the powerful "Tiger Tiger" and ending with the uber-emotional "Secret Oktober," this DvD is memorable from start to finish. What a great inside look at Duran Duran in their prime!

DVD Review: Sing Blue Silver
Summary: 5 Stars

Good price. Packaged exceptionally well. Received in a timely fashion. Thank you!!! (This is an awesome documentary from 1984 - I had it on VHS, but figured better get in on DVD since VHS will soon become like vinyl records.)

DVD Review: Surprisingly watchable. Nay, downright good!
Summary: 4 Stars

If you like rockumentaries, then this is well worth watching. There are nice interviews, great concert footage and tasty tidbits for all fans and former fans of DD. All from the 1984 tour no less. The hair, the girls, the shoulderpads! I gave it four stars because it's not quite the work of art that 101 (Depeche Mode) is.

DVD Review: Duran Duran period piece
Summary: 3 Stars

It's ashame a documentary on Duran Duran like SING BLUE SILVER was not filmed in the early 1980s, when the band was still new, edgy and playing smaller venues in America. Instead, this DVD offers up Duran Duran the arena band, with Beatlemania-esqe theatrics in full swing, at the top of their game on their massive 1984 tour. By this time their stage show had become bloated, with an extra percussionist/drummer and the obligatory female backing singers being added to the mix, which in the end does nothing but an injustice to bands that clearly rocked with raw energy and emotion when found in their original setting.

Perhaps a DVD of earlier escapades would have caught LeBon, Rhodes and the Taylors when they were not exhausted, physically and mentally, which is clearly evident when watching SING BLUE SILVER. The rigorous schedule the band was maintaining at this time clearly zapped the energy the band always had, and a lot of times they look like they are going through the motions, especially in the backstage interviews and other promotional activities bands of Duran's stature are forced to endure during such a large undertaking as this 1984 tour.

John Taylor is clearly disenchanted and disinterested as the rest of the band looks on, as John speaks for his bandmates as they are introduced to the corporate bigwigs at Coca Cola, who are sponsoring the tour. It's clear LeBon and Andy Taylor think the whole exercise is futile, and then John lets out his famous quip about preferring Pepsi anyway.

Roger Taylor looks drained in the backstage footage and can usually be seen laid out on a couch after the show, which eerily foreshadows his reasoning for departing the band, citing exhaustion in 1986.

The performances by the band lack the rawness and edginess Duran offered up in their early days, or even now in 2005 as the original lineup has reunited and undertaken a series of successful concert tours over the last several years. The female backing vocalists and extra musicians clearly muddy the mix and distract from their musical talents, in particular the Taylors, who left to their own devices, can really rock out on stage.

Otherwise, SING BLUE SILVER is a fun period piece if you are like me and remember the good old days that were the 1980s. It's fun to see the teenagers filing into the arenas in their `80s garb, and even funnier when one girl outside the arena being filmed is only interested in if this footage is going to appear on MTV. However, if you are looking for raw and rocking Duran Duran, my suggestion would be to skip this DVD and purchase LIVE IN LONDON instead, a complete live concert from their week-long stand at Wembley in 2004. After watching the 2004 performance, you will probably come away thinking that Duran Duran are, in fact, better today, as the band has never sounded or sang better, and the presentation at Wembley overall blew me away. SING BLUE SILVER is a nice period piece, documenting what would end up being the pinnacle of Duran's success in the `80s, but ultimately finding a tired and unenergetic band.

DVD Review: DURAN DURAN SING BLUE SILVER DVD
Summary: 4 Stars

AS A DURAN DURAN FAN FOR OVER 20 YEARS,BUYING THIS DVD BROUGHT BACK ALOT OF MEMORIES OF THEIR 1984 U.S. TOUR.IT WAS FUN TO WATCH-OF COURSE IT COULD HAVE BEEN PUT TOGETHER A LITTLE BETTER BUT IT WAS 1984 AND WE DIDNT CARE!AS LONG AS WE GOT TO SEE DURAN DURAN.LOVE THIS GROUP AND LOVE THE DVD.

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