- I Don't Want Your Love
Infobox Single |
Name = I Don't Want Your Love
Caption =
Artist =Duran Duran
from Album =Big Thing
Released = start_date|1988|9
Format =
Recorded =
Genre = Rock, New Wave
Length = 3:48 (7" remix)
Label =EMI - YOUR 1
Writer = Duran Duran
Producer = Duran Duran, Jonathan Elias, Daniel Abraham
Chart position =
Last single = "Meet El Presidente " (1987)
This single = "I Don't Want Your Love" (1988)
Next single = "All She Wants Is " (1988)"I Don't Want Your Love" is the seventeenth single fromDuran Duran , and the first single from the "Big Thing " album. It was released in September 1988.Music video
The video for "I Don't Want Your Love" was filmed by director
Steve Lowe and produced byThe Molotov Brothers , and first aired on start_date|1988|9|26. [ [http://www.mvdbase.com/video.php?id=9212 Music Video Database: I Don't Want Your Love] ]The video features the band in a raucous
courtroom filled with spectators andtabloid reporters, "testifying" by singing the song into the court's witness microphones. The instrumental bridge in the song is accompanied by images of a young man and woman dancing or fighting (or both).The other musicians in the video are guitarist
Warren Cuccurullo (playing Kamen's guitar part) and David Palmer, former drummer for ABC.B-sides, bonus tracks and remixes
The single version of "I Don't Want Your Love" was a remix by
Shep Pettibone . It was backed by the album version for theb-side .A UK promo 12" includes the dub mix of "I Don't Want Your Love" which was unreleased elsewhere until 1999's "
Strange Behaviour " remix collection (which strangely didn't use the lead 12" mix entitled "Big Mix").Chart positions
"I Don't Want Your Love" both debuted and peaked at number 14 in the UK, but did much better in the rest of Europe, especially in Italy where it spent six non-consecutive weeks at number 1, becoming the best-selling single of 1988 in that country. It did very well in the U.S. reaching number 4 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 and number 1 on the "Billboard" Hot Dance Club Play.
* #14
UK Singles Chart
* #4Billboard Hot 100
* #13 BillboardModern Rock Tracks
* #1 BillboardHot Dance Club Play
* #1 Italy
* #8 CanadianCHUM Chart
* #15 Swiss Top 30Track listing
=7": EMI / YOUR 1 - UK =# "I Don't Want Your Love" (7" mix) - 3:48
# "I Don't Want Your Love" (LP Version) - 4:0512": EMI / 12 YOUR 1 - UK
# "I Don't Want Your Love" (Big mix) - 7:33
# "I Don't Want Your Love" (7" mix) - 3:48
# "I Don't Want Your Love" (LP Version) - 4:05
* also available on CD (CD YOUR 1)12": EMI / 12 YOURDJ1 - UK
# "I Don't Want Your Love" (Big mix) - 7:33
# "I Don't Want Your Love" (Dub mix) - 7:34* UK promo
Other appearances
Aside from the single, "I Don't Want Your Love" has appeared on:
* "
Big Thing " (1988)
* "" (1989)
* "Greatest" (1998)Personnel
Duran Duran are:
*Simon Le Bon - Vocals
*John Taylor - Bass
*Nick Rhodes - KeyboardsWith:
*Chester Kamen - GuitarsProduction:
* Duran Duran - Producer
* Jonathan Elias - Producer
* Daniel Abraham - Producer
* Shep Pettibone - Remixer
* Bob Rosa - Remix engineerReferences
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