“HOLD BACK THE RAIN” DURAN DURAN (Fabulous flip side of “Rio” — 1983)
ollowing Duran Duran’s U.S. breakthrough success with the gold-certified single “Hungry Like the Wolf” on the Harvest label, the title tune from the British quintet’s second album,, was reissued as a single on Capitol in 1983; it was first issued on Harvest in 1982. The colorful video showed the guys sailing in their suits, action scenes with female models and a sax solo on a makeshift wooden raft. The flip side, also from the album, was “Hold Back the Rain,” with a similar’s 2020 interview with Dave Morrell, the author of, he stated, “That flip side was a great bass-driven, alternative-rock club smash.” The single became the second of 11 consecutive U.S. Top 40 hits for the group, which included the chart toppers “The Reflex” and “A View to a Kill,” the latter being the title song from the 1985 James Bond film.
