“Violence of Summer” by Duran Duran

"Violence of Summer (Love's Taking Over)" was Duran Duran's opening shot from Liberty, their sixth studio album, and it hit British shops on 23 July 1990 as the record's first single. It was cut at Olympic Studios, and the writing credit is spread five ways: Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes, John Taylor, Warren Cuccurullo and Sterling Campbell.

The single came at you in every format going: seven-inch, 12-inch, CD and cassette in the UK, then a second 12-inch a fortnight later carrying "Throb", an ambient instrumental rework of the Liberty track "My Antarctica". All told, seven different remixes of the song were scattered across the various releases. It went to number two in Italy, 20 in the UK and 64 in the US.

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