“Meet El Presidente” by Duran Duran

Duran Duran and Nile Rodgers produced "Meet El Presidente" for Notorious, the band's fourth album, from 1986, and in April 1987 it became the record's third and final single. Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes and John Taylor share the writing credit, and Daniel Abraham engineered and mixed. On Soul Train that month, Le Bon billed it as the album's political flagship.

The single isn't quite the album cut. Capitol Records executives wanted remixes to cash in on Miami's growing Latin scene and markets like it, so the single versions hold the original key and tempo but pile on more percussion, beefier bass, brass and extra backing vocals. Britain took it to 24; in America it got stuck at 70 on the Billboard Hot 100. The band had already played it on The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers that February, and on the last episode of The Tube.

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