The limo scene alone proves fame was a horror movie with better hair products.
In 1984, Duran Duran toured Canada and America. It was their first major tour as headliners in these two countries. Over 79 days, they travelled approximately 18,000 miles and played 51 shows in 43 cities to over 550,000 fans. The entire tour was filmed for this behind the scenes documentary which offers some fascinating and intriguing glimpses into the fun, glamour, agony, ecstasy and ultimate glory of three months on the road. The band is shown thriving on the pressures, psyching themselves up pre-stage and then delivering their all to a thunderous response. The production manager, tour manager, road crew are frequently caught fraught with last minute panics and touring nerves. Hoards of hysterical fans are seen chasing down and beating on the band's limo and with a camera placed inside the car it gives the viewer an insight into how loud and sinister that must have been. And in between all of this comes the great music.
Cinematography
That claustrophobic limo interior—cinema verité as psychological warfare.
Production
Genuinely unscripted backstage panic, no modern PR sanitization.
Sound
The roar of 550,000 screaming fans, preserved in analog terror.
Director
Michael Collins
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This captures peak MTV-era celebrity at its most unsustainable—the band became so famous so fast that documentary access became a liability.
Andy Taylor's visible tension throughout foreshadowed his 1986 exit; watch his eyes during group interview scenes.
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