This was true in 1992, and I think it’s still true.”ĭuran Duran's label wanted to test the waters for the tune, leaking "Ordinary World" to a radio station in Jacksonville, Florida, towards the end of 1992. It makes you realize that a story about two people is just a tiny part of this huge story which is called humanity. “The lines, ‘Papers in the roadside tell of suffering and greed/ feared today, forgot tomorrow / Here beside the news of holy war and holy need / ours is just a little sorrowed talk’ put everything in perspective. “We wrote ‘Ordinary World’ while the first Gulf War was on,” Le Bon recalled. The song's wide-reaching sentiment was reflective of its mood. With a memorable guitar melody from Cuccurullo and possibly Le Bon's finest studio vocal performance, the track struck a chord with fans old and new alike. With Duran Duran circa 1992 featuring former Frank Zappa and Missing Persons guitarist Warren Cuccurullo as a full-time member, "Ordinary World" found the band displaying a much more mature and universal sound than the band's well-known hits of the 1980s. "‘Ordinary World’ was the act of letting that go."
“I’m not a big believer in the supernatural, but six years after, I started to feel a weight inside me," Le Bon told Paste in 2017. The origins of "Ordinary World" were the results of tragedy: the death of singer Simon Le Bon's good friend, David Miles, of a drug overdose in 1986. For a band so inextricably tied to the 1980s, New Wave icons Duran Duran scored one of its biggest and most memorable hits amidst the chaotic rise of grunge and gangster rap with 1992 hit, "Ordinary World." The song was the lead single from the group's seventh studio effort, which is officially self-titled, but beter known as The Wedding Album, due to the cover art featuring wedding photos of the band member's parents tying the knot over the years.
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