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It appeared for the first time on CD on the 2010 remaster of Duran Duran as the "Extended Night Version". It was also released on some versions of the 1982 Carnaval EP. The Greek 12" release of "Girls on Film" contains a version with a longer camera intro not found on the other 12 inches.A couple of these mixes were included on the 1998 UK release of the single " Electric Barbarella".Ĭovers, samples, and media references Ĭover versions of "Girls on Film" have been recorded by Björn Again, Wesley Willis Fiasco, the Living End, Girls Aloud, Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers, Billy Preston, Kevin Max, La Ley, Midnight Oil, Mindless Self Indulgence and Chord Overstreet.

In 1998, EMI released Girls on Film – The Remixes, featuring a swathe of newly commissioned re-constructions of the song by Tall Paul and Tin Tin Out. There are two slightly different mixes of the Night Version, one clocking in at 5:45, the other at 5:27. The extended night version of "Girls on Film", similar to " Planet Earth" wasn't a remix, but a completely new arrangement of the song. The B-side of the single was another song initially unavailable anywhere else, a synthesiser-heavy dance track called "Faster Than Light". Simon Le Bon commented in the audio interview on the Greatest DVD collection that the scandal of the music video overshadowed the song's message of fashion model exploitation.ī-sides, bonus tracks and remixes The edited version would later be used in the 2008 karaoke video game SingStar Pop Vol. The uncensored video was also included in the Duran Duran video album (1983) and the Greatest video collection (released on VHS in 1999, and on DVD in 2004, which was given a restrictive 18 rating in the United Kingdom and Ireland) and was given the R13 rating in New Zealand. The Video 45 won the Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video in 1984, the first year the Academy gave that award. The VHS-format tape contains the MTV-friendly edited "day version" of "Girls on Film", while the Betamax and CED Videodisc format contained the original uncensored "night version". The raunchy video created an uproar, and it was consequently banned by the BBC and heavily edited for its original run on MTV the band unabashedly enjoyed and capitalised on the controversy.Ī Video 45 for "Girls on Film" and " Hungry Like the Wolf" was released in the United States in March 1983. The band expected the "Girls on Film" video to be played exclusively at nightclubs that had video screens. It was filmed just weeks before MTV was launched in the United States and before anyone knew what an impact the music channel would have on the industry. The video was made with directing duo Godley & Creme (of 10cc fame) and director of photography Steven Bernstein at Shepperton Studios in July 1981. The song fared well on the radio and the charts before the music video was filmed, but the controversy that ensued helped to keep the band in the public eye and the song on the charts for many weeks. The different original version, which co-writer Wickett said "was inspired by the dark side of the glitz and glamour", was released as part of an EP in 2018. Originally written and demoed in 1979 by an early line-up of the band featuring lead vocalist Andy Wickett, Duran Duran re-wrote and re-recorded the song for their 1981 debut album. The song did not chart in the United States on its initial release, but it became popular and widely known after receiving heavy airplay on MTV when the Duran Duran album was re-issued in 1983. Its popularity provided a major boost to sales of the band's eponymous debut studio album, Duran Duran, which had been released a month earlier. The band personally selected the song for release following the failure of its predecessor, " Careless Memories", which had been chosen by their record company, EMI. The single became Duran Duran's Top 10 breakthrough in the UK Singles Chart, peaking at Number 5 in July 1981. " Girls on Film" is the third single by English new wave band Duran Duran, released on 13 July 1981.