
This was the single's official B-side in the UK. The single was released in the United Kingdom on 29 March 1993, with the B-side " Ordinary World" (Acoustic). Le Bon and Taylor's ruffled Vivien Westwood shirts were likely a nod to the band's early New Romantic era.
Duran duran simon free#
These vignettes include a little girl seeing her parents together, an older couple who have survived a flood, an alcoholic woman putting some alcoholic powder into the blender and a man who is revealed to be a cross-dresser.Īlso seen in the video is a woman struggling underwater to break free of the chains that bind her. Shots of the band were filmed in the aquarium at the London Zoo these were interspersed with short vignettes of people "coming undone" in various ways. The "Come Undone" video was directed by Julien Temple. But I’m not one for regrets.” Music video We’d put that album to bed and I said: ‘I’m not coming back for one more song.’ Maybe it would have been a different song if I’d been there, maybe it wouldn’t have been such a great song. “Maybe I wished I’d played on Come Undone,” he told the BBC. He was at his home in Los Angeles, and was considering leaving the band at the time of the song's recording. The group's bassist, John Taylor, did not actually play bass or participate in the writing of this song. The lyrics were written by vocalist Simon Le Bon as a birthday gift for his wife, supermodel Yasmin Le Bon). The group's guitarist at the time, Warren Cuccurullo, is credited with developing the instrumentation for "Come Undone", most importantly its guitar hook, which he developed while trying to do a re-interpretation of " First Impression" from their 1990 album Liberty. It was also popular in the UK and other international markets. "Come Undone" proved to be the group's second consecutive US top ten hit single from The Wedding Album.

With their commercial and critical success reestablished by the previous single " Ordinary World", the second release from the album continued to showcase more of the band's entry into the Adult Contemporary genre.
