“It’s one of the very few songs that we’ve ever written, certainly whilst John was in the band, that he didn’t play on,” Rhodes noted.īut “Come Undone” does feature backing vocals by Tessa Niles, who has also worked with the Police, David Bowie and others. John Jones, who co-produced the album with Duran Duran, recalled to Forbes in 2023 that the song came together quickly, forming around the guitar riff and drum loop. But bassist John Taylor isn’t on the song because he was in Los Angeles at the time, and the recording took place in London. “ came up with a really great melody - we already had the ‘ Can’t ever keep from falling apart’ section - and he very quickly made it his or himself part of it.” “He said, ‘Wow, I love that!’ And so it became a Duran Duran song,” Rhodes says. Rhodes and guitarist Warren Cuccurullo had already been working on “Come Undone” along with some other music singer Simon Le Bon caught wind of the song and helped it to the finish line. “It was the last piece of music to be added to the album, so it was really almost an afterthought: ‘Hey, we’ve written this and it’s pretty good. The song boasts watery keyboards, a circular guitar riff and one of Simon Le Bon’s most delicate, emotional vocal performances.Ĭontrary to what’s been reported over the years, the laid-back drum loop was not a sample of “Ashley’s Roachclip” by the Soul Searchers but an original part.Īs keyboardist Nick Rhodes recalled to Idolator in 2013, “Come Undone” almost didn’t make it on the Wedding Album. In contrast to the first single, the power ballad “Ordinary World,” “Come Undone” sounded more like the trip-hop that was popular in the early ‘90s. Duran Duran released “Come Undone” on March 29, 1993, in the U.K. It was the second single from their hit self-titled LP, better known as the Wedding Album.
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