I Don't Want Your Love

Infobox Single |
Name = I Don't Want Your Love


Caption =
Artist = Duran Duran
from Album = Big Thing
Released = start_date|1988|9
Format =
Recorded =
Genre = Rock, New Wave
Length = 3:48 (7" remix)
Label = EMI - YOUR 1
Writer = Duran Duran
Producer = Duran Duran, Jonathan Elias, Daniel Abraham
Chart position =
Last single = "Meet El Presidente" (1987)
This single = "I Don't Want Your Love" (1988)
Next single = "All She Wants Is" (1988)"I Don't Want Your Love" is the seventeenth single from Duran Duran, and the first single from the "Big Thing" album. It was released in September 1988.

Music video

The video for "I Don't Want Your Love" was filmed by director Steve Lowe and produced by The Molotov Brothers, and first aired on start_date|1988|9|26. [ [http://www.mvdbase.com/video.php?id=9212 Music Video Database: I Don't Want Your Love] ]

The video features the band in a raucous courtroom filled with spectators and tabloid reporters, "testifying" by singing the song into the court's witness microphones. The instrumental bridge in the song is accompanied by images of a young man and woman dancing or fighting (or both).

The other musicians in the video are guitarist Warren Cuccurullo (playing Kamen's guitar part) and David Palmer, former drummer for ABC.

B-sides, bonus tracks and remixes

The single version of "I Don't Want Your Love" was a remix by Shep Pettibone. It was backed by the album version for the b-side.

A UK promo 12" includes the dub mix of "I Don't Want Your Love" which was unreleased elsewhere until 1999's "Strange Behaviour" remix collection (which strangely didn't use the lead 12" mix entitled "Big Mix").

Chart positions

"I Don't Want Your Love" both debuted and peaked at number 14 in the UK, but did much better in the rest of Europe, especially in Italy where it spent six non-consecutive weeks at number 1, becoming the best-selling single of 1988 in that country. It did very well in the U.S. reaching number 4 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 and number 1 on the "Billboard" Hot Dance Club Play.

* #14 UK Singles Chart
* #4 Billboard Hot 100
* #13 Billboard Modern Rock Tracks
* #1 Billboard Hot Dance Club Play
* #1 Italy
* #8 Canadian CHUM Chart
* #15 Swiss Top 30

Track listing

=7": EMI / YOUR 1 - UK =

# "I Don't Want Your Love" (7" mix) - 3:48
# "I Don't Want Your Love" (LP Version) - 4:05

12": EMI / 12 YOUR 1 - UK

# "I Don't Want Your Love" (Big mix) - 7:33
# "I Don't Want Your Love" (7" mix) - 3:48
# "I Don't Want Your Love" (LP Version) - 4:05
* also available on CD (CD YOUR 1)

12": EMI / 12 YOURDJ1 - UK

# "I Don't Want Your Love" (Big mix) - 7:33
# "I Don't Want Your Love" (Dub mix) - 7:34

* UK promo

Other appearances

Aside from the single, "I Don't Want Your Love" has appeared on:

* "Big Thing" (1988)
* "" (1989)
* "Greatest" (1998)

Personnel

Duran Duran are:
*Simon Le Bon - Vocals
*John Taylor - Bass
*Nick Rhodes - Keyboards

With:
*Chester Kamen - Guitars

Production:
* Duran Duran - Producer
* Jonathan Elias - Producer
* Daniel Abraham - Producer
* Shep Pettibone - Remixer
* Bob Rosa - Remix engineer

References