It was released as a single and reached number 25 on the UK Singles Chart in March 1995, becoming the duo's second top-40 hit in the UK.

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And I was playing that on top of [the synth loop], and as I was sort of fiddling around, Andy Taylor arrived. For one scene, Le Bon and Rhodes were dropped off from a helicopter on the rock at Sigiriya that could not itself land on the monument. My interpretation of the meaning is very simple - two lonely strangers meet up in presumably a foreign place (this I figured from the exotic location in the video) and hook up for one night with no intention to take it any further than that. But such was the rich power of Duran Duran's songwriting during this period, it's relegated to a b-side. Save A Prayer" (Live) was released as a single from the live album Arena in the United States in February of 1985 ( B-5438), backed with the original UK single version of "Save A Prayer".In 1995, English musical duo Shut Up and Dance prominently sampled "Save a Prayer" on their song "Save It 'til the Mourning After". You'll all be playing that song without resorting to flute and shakuhachi samples now and it's all thanks to me! The Sheffield band's debut single " I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor" had previously apparently nodded to another Duran Duran song with "Your name isn't Rio, but I don't care for sand", referring to a line in the Rio title track. Video Version: at approximately 4:41 "Save a prayer 'til the morning after" is repeated twelve times until fade out. The video was taken from Duran Duran's Oakland, California concerts that were filmed for the Arena (An Absurd Notion) video.

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That's what happens to kids that watch too much cold war tv news coverage and get religion shoved down their throats but are allowed to listen to whatever they want. In the second verse, Ed sings about the role of grief in his friend’s plight and his dwindling faith in prayer. Simon Le Bon and Roger and John Taylor went ahead to the location while Andy Taylor and Nick Rhodes were in London finishing mixes for the Rio album and B-sides. Cover art for the single was designed by Assorted iMages, which features the shadow of John Taylor, which was a flipped image taken from a still frame of the first few seconds of the music video. He sums up "Save A Prayer" as "It's definitely a freedom song but like a kinda nobody owns anybody kinda song.By that point, "Some Like It Hot" — the first single from the Power Station, a side project featuring John and Andy Taylor — was starting to make waves on radio.

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Essentially, I think that pretty sums up the whole song - forgetting about everything and just living in the present moment. There aren’t many things that’ll hurt more than giving love a chance against your better judgement only to have your heart crushed yet again. I hadn't even thought about chords at all, all I had was this little sequence and the melody that went on top of it," Rhodes added. Duran Duran guitarist Andy Taylor fell into water used as an animal latrine during the filming of the video and ended up being hospitalized with dysentery. The song revolves around a chance meeting between two people that flares into a one-off sexual encounter.Video: at approximately 4:41 "Save a prayer 'til the morning after" is repeated 12 times until fade out. The Arctic Monkeys' 2007 single, " Teddy Picker" contains the lyric, alluding to a line in this song's chorus: "I don't want your prayer, save it for the morning after.