Hungry Like the Wolf

"Hungry Like the Wolf" is the fifth single by English new wave band Duran Duran and taken from their second studio album Rio. It went to number 1 in Canada, number 3 in the United States, number 4 in Ireland, New Zealand and South Africa and number 5 in the United Kingdom and Australia. It won a Grammy Award in 1984.

"Hungry Like the Wolf"
Single by Duran Duran
from Rio"
B-side"Careless Memories" (live)
Released
  • 4 May 1982 (UK)
  • 7 June 1982 (US)
  • 3 December 1982 (US re-release)
RecordedEarly 1982
Genre
Length
  • 3:23 (single version)
  • 4:11 (US album remix)
  • 5:14 (Night Version)
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Colin Thurston
Duran Duran singles chronology
""My Own Way"
(1981)
Hungry Like the Wolf ""Save a Prayer"
(1982)
"Hungry Like the Wolf" at YouTube

References

  1. "CMJ New Music Report Vol. 59, N°633". CMJ New Music Report. CMJ Network, Inc.: 28 1999. ISSN 0890-0795. "Forget the melodramatic videos (if you can) and listen back to singles from this era – Nick Rhodes's fluttering flurry of new-wave keys during "Hungry Like The Wolf,"...
  2. People Weekly, Vol. 62. Time, Incorporated. 2004. "But the big-haired lineup that gave us such '80s synth-pop hits as "Girls on Film," "Hungry Like the Wolf" and "Rio" has reunited for Astronaut, which finds the group taking creative flight again."
  3. "Duran Duran - La fiaba dorata dei wild boys" (in Italian).{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)