This entry in the Classic Albums series examines RIO, the 1982 release that put Duran Duran on the road to stardom. Looking back at the creation and release of the hit singles "Hungry Like the Wolf," "Save a Prayer," and many others, the critical retrospective analyzes the album's overall effect on the musical landscape of the early 1980s. The optimistic and celebratory album generated a string of hit singles and groundbreaking videos, catapulting the band to global stardom. This DVD tells the story behind the writing, recording, and subsequent success of the album through newly filmed interviews, musical demonstrations, and both new and archival performances.

Saturday Night at the Capitol An incendiary show from 1982 at the Capitol Theatre, Sydney, shot for...

By November of 1980, the B-52’s had two albums under their belt and were two months away from their ...

A brief history of Talking Heads (and how they got here!)

In the early 1970s, rubber was still king in Akron, Ohio. But just a few short years later, Akron's ...

Probably the most atypical star in the history of popular music, Ian Dury overcame Polio to be one o...

The Bears recorded this DVD live at Club Cafe, an intimate and wired nightclub located in Pittsburgh...

The first-ever official live document from brilliant 70s art-punks Wire is finally released on this ...

A collection of Madonna's favorite videos from 1993-1999. Contains the 14 videos: Bad Girl, Fever, R...

In 1984, David Byrne put together a TV special on the Talking Heads for U.K. TV’s Channel 4, a 68-mi...

Olivia Rodrigo performs her #1 debut album SOUR during her senior year prom.

1. In the Flesh - 2. X Offender - 3. Denis – 4. Detroit 442 – 5. (I'm Always Touched by Your) Presen...

Duran Duran's presentation at the Lollapalooza Music Festival, Argentina 2017.
I have to give it up to Howie Day for putting on an amazing one man show. I've never seen a performa...

A documentary filmed behind the scenes of the Bon Jovi's Lost Highway tour in 2008.

Looks like an alien, sings like a diva - Klaus Nomi was one of the 1980s' most profoundly bizarre ch...

After more than a decade apart, the Bangles reunite for a memorable concert of their greatest hits f...

The film tells about the birth of a new wave in the USSR under a strict political regime and about t...

On March 24th, 1980, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers performed for BBCTV Rock Goes to College, at Oxfo...

Jay’s Longhorn was the epicenter of the Minneapolis punk rock and indie rock scene in the late 1970s...

A strange combination of techno and New Wave music, the French duo Daft Punk caused an international...