Duran Duran - Is There Something I Should Know？

What this video is

Released on 14 March 1983, 'Is There Something I Should Know?' was Duran Duran's eighth single and their first UK #1, debuting at the top of the chart on 26 March 1983 — a feat achieved by only a handful of acts since The Beatles. The song reached #4 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and sold over a million copies in America. It was released as a stand-alone single — not tied to any album — bridging the band's Rio era…

Why it matters

A landmark artefact of New Romantic MTV pop, the video exemplifies the era's fusion of high-concept visual storytelling with pop performance. Its surrealist B&W interstitials, co-ordinated fashion, and embedded archival montage anticipate the self-aware, visually layered music video language that…

The director

Russell Mulcahy (born 23 June 1953, Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian director, writer, and producer. He began his career directing music videos before transitioning to feature films. He directed the first video ever aired on MTV — The Buggles' 'Video…