“Wild Boys (Wilder Than Wild Boys Extended Mi.)” by Duran Duran

The "Wilder Than Wild Boys" extended mix stretches out "The Wild Boys", the Duran Duran single from 1984 that was the lone studio track on their live album Arena, and the song behind it had movie-sized ambitions. Russell Mulcahy, the band's longtime video director, wanted to turn William S. Burroughs' 1971 novel The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead into a feature film and suggested Duran Duran give it a modern soundtrack. Simon Le Bon wrote words from Mulcahy's quick summary of the book, and the band built a harsh-edged backdrop drawing on the groove of Frankie Goes to Hollywood's "Relax".

Nile Rodgers, who had remixed "The Reflex", produced it at Maison Rouge Studios in London at the end of July 1984, and the writing credit goes to Le Bon, Nick Rhodes and John, Andy and Roger Taylor.

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