Duran Duran - VH-1 Storytellers, Bray Studios, Berkshire, Britain, 6-25-2000

Here's another "VH-1 Storytellers" album. This time, it's Duran Duran.

The concert did not come at a good time for the band. They were massively popular in the early 1980s especially. But they also had a big revival in their commercial fortunes in the early 1990s. For their entire career, they've sold over 100 million albums. However, by 2000, their commercial fortunes were at a low point. The album they were supporting with this concert, "Pop Trash," only reached 53 in the British album charts, and didn't even make the Top 100 in the U.S. album charts. They also were only down to two out of five original members.

However, their fortunes were about to change again. In 2001, the original line-up would reunite. Their next album, 2004's "Astronaut," would do much better, and would contain a single, "(Reach Up for The) Sunrise," which would reach Number Five in Britain.

The new music band was doing in 2000 doesn't matter much for this concert though. Only one song, "Playing with Uranium," was included from their 2000 album. Most of the rest are classic hits from their 1980s heyday, plus their biggest hit from the 1990s, "Ordinary World."

As is usually the case with the Storytellers episodes, only the end of the first song, "Rio," was included. However, in this case, I managed to find a soundboard bootleg from 2000, and used that to patch in the rest of the song. That's why that one song has "[Edit]" in the title. Also, the lead vocals were rather low in the mix, so I used the UVR5 audio editing program to boost them relative to the instruments for all the songs.

This album is 43 minutes long.

01 Rio [Edit] (Duran Duran)
02 talk (Duran Duran)
03 Girls on Film (Duran Duran)
04 talk (Duran Duran)
05 Hungry like the Wolf (Duran Duran)
06 talk (Duran Duran)
07 Notorious (Duran Duran)
08 A View to a Kill [False Start] (Duran Duran)
09 talk (Duran Duran)
10 Save a Prayer (Duran Duran)
11 talk (Duran Duran)
12 Playing with Uranium (Duran Duran)
13 talk (Duran Duran)
14 A View to a Kill (Duran Duran)
15 talk (Duran Duran)
16 Ordinary World (Duran Duran)

https://www.upload.ee/files/17126078/DURNDRN2000StrytllrsBryStdosBrkshreBrtin__6-25-2000_atse.zip.html

alternate link:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/JbwUyzYJ

I couldn't find any good photos from this concert. So instead I used one from the band's appearance on the "Late Night with Jay Leno" TV show the same month. I used Photoshop to move the guitarist more towards the center.