Reference.com

So Red the Rose

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Cite This Source

So Red The Rose is the platinum-selling album by the Duran Duran-spinoff group Arcadia, which was released in 1985 — the only album the band ever released. It included the singles "Election Day", "Goodbye is Forever" and "The Flame".

There were many musical guests on the album, including David Gilmour, Herbie Hancock, Grace Jones, and Sting (who provided backing vocals on "The Promise").

Musically, the album was a more lush, ambient affair than the previous output of Duran Duran. The songs explored new sonic spaces and a number of the tracks were quite lengthy.

The album's artwork featured painted ink drawings inspired by the sketches of Jean Cocteau as well as an innovative "light space" photograph of the band by Dean Chamberlain, who also directed the video for the song, "Missing".

Encrypted messages

Some versions of the album and related singles contained a numeric code in their artwork, though versions in some countries simply used randomized numbers which did not decipher to anything intelligible. The code was a simple substitution cipher, numbering the letters of the alphabet. A=1, B=2, C=3, etc.

Track listing

  1. "Election Day" - 5:29
  2. "Keep Me in the Dark" - 4:31
  3. "Goodbye is Forever" - 3:49
  4. "The Flame" - 4:23
  5. "Missing" - 3:40
  6. "Rose Arcana" - 0:51
  7. "The Promise" - 7:30
  8. "El Diablo" - 6:05
  9. "Lady Ice" - 7:32

Singles

  1. "Election Day" (October 85)
  2. "Goodbye is Forever" (January 86)
  3. "The Promise" (January 1986)
  4. "The Flame" (July 1986)

Personnel

External links



Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia © 2001-2006 Wikipedia contributors (Disclaimer)
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Last updated on Friday February 22, 2008 at 01:12:22 PST (GMT -0800)
View this article at Wikipedia.org - Edit this article at Wikipedia.org - Donate to the Wikimedia Foundation