''Decade'' is a greatest hits album by

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, released on 15 November 1989.Chic - Page 10 In 1985 Rodgers produced albums for Sheena Easton, Jeff Beck, The Thompson Twins, Mick Jagger, and many others, ... with releases by the Dan Reed Network, Slam, and Duran Duran's compilation, Decade, which was appropriately titled. The

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" was released to radio to promote this album. It was created by producer John Jones by mixing snippets of the band's biggest hits from the previous decade into a new piece of music. However, the track was not included on the ''Decade'' album itself. The tracks " My Own Way" and " New Moon on Monday" were also not included, even though both were top 20 hits in the UK. ''Decades track listing included various hits from all of Duran Duran's albums and presented them in mixes that were popular and mainstream among the public. Hence, it includes the

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edit of "The Reflex" and the single edits of "Hungry Like The Wolf", "Notorious" and "Skin Trade", as well as the Shep Pettibone single mix of "I Don't Want Your Love". Oddly, there are many versions and single edits of the song "Rio"; the compilation uses the standard album version, and for "Save a Prayer" the UK single version.

Track listing

Personnel

* Daniel Abraham – production, engineering, mixing * Hans Arnold – illustrations * John Barry – arrangement, conducting * Jason Corsaro – production, engineering, mixing *

– production *

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– production *

Jonathan Elias Jonathan Elias (born 1956) is an American composer best known for his film soundtracks. Background Elias was born in New York City in 1956. He is of Jewish-Hungarian background. Elias started playing piano at the age of six, and was composin ...

– production * Laura Levine – photography * Ian Little – production, mixing *

Denis O'Regan Denis O'Regan is an English photographer. His imagery is particularly associated with the punk movement, Queen, David Bowie, and Duran Duran, and O'Regan has photographed everyone from AC/DC to ZZ Top, documenting Punk, New Romanticism, Grunge, an ...

– photography * Steve Peck – mixing * Shep Pettibone – production, mixing *

– production, mixing * Bob Rosa – mixing * Alex Sadkin – production, mixing * Stephen Sprouse – illustrations * Colin Thurston – production, engineering

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

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