Duran Duran - Duran Duran (The Wedding Album) 2LP

By 1992, Duran Duran needed this one to count. Their previous album had stalled; the critics had moved on. What came back was leaner, more disciplined, a record built on songwriting first, production second. "Ordinary World" arrived before the album did, leaked to US radio and driven by public demand into an early release. It reached No. 3 in the US and No. 6 in the UK. "Come Undone" confirmed it wasn't a fluke, peaking at No. 7 in the US. In the UK it reached No. 13, but its momentum pushed the album back into the Top 5, where it stayed for a month. The first time the band had scored two Top 10 US singles off the same album since Seven and the Ragged Tiger a decade earlier. The record also features a cover of the Velvet Underground's "Femme Fatale" and the seven-minute album closer "Sin of the City", written by John Taylor as a response to the 1990 Happy Land fire in New York. Known almost immediately as The Wedding Album, a name that came from the cover's collage of wedding photographs from the parents of all four band members, the official title is simply Duran Duran, the band's second self-titled record. This 2026 reissue spreads the album across 140g black 2LP for the first time, in a newly embossed sleeve with a 12" art card.