Duran Duran

Working as doormen, disc jockeys and barmen at Birmingham's Rum Runner nightclub, a band named after a character in Barbarella honed songs between shifts. Duran Duran became one of the New Romantic scene's leading lights, pairing Nick Rhodes's synthesisers with Andy Taylor's rock guitar.

Video was their secret weapon. 'Girls on Film' arrived with a deliberately sensational clip, Russell Mulcahy shot cinematic shorts for 'Hungry Like the Wolf' and 'Save a Prayer', and heavy MTV rotation carried Rio across America.

Clubland mattered just as much. Once an EP of remixes proved popular with DJs, most of that album was reworked and relaunched in the US as a dance record, while the group crafted their own 'night versions', multi-layered extended takes made well before easy sampling.