Liberty by Duran Duran

Liberty, Duran Duran's sixth studio album, came out on 20 August 1990, with guitarist Warren Cuccurullo and drummer Sterling Campbell now full members alongside the core trio of Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes and John Taylor. The band produced it themselves at Olympic Studios, and the result is glossy, busy pop rock that never quite settles on what it wants to be.

It got as far as number eight in the UK and threw off two singles, "Violence of Summer (Love's Taking Over)" and "Serious", but the critics weren't kind, knocking the songwriting and the lack of a clear direction. It sits in the band's lean stretch at the turn of the decade, a few years before the Wedding Album brought "Ordinary World" and "Come Undone" and turned the story around.

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