"All She Wants Is" is the eighteenth single

Single (music)

In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...

 from Duran Duran

Duran Duran

Duran Duran are an English band, formed in Birmingham in 1978. They were one of the most successful bands of the 1980s and a leading band in the MTV-driven "Second British Invasion" of the United States...

, and the second single from the Big Thing

Big Thing

Big Thing is the fifth album by Duran Duran, released worldwide in 1988. It reached #15 in the UK and #24 in the US.A CD reissue was released in 1994. The album is was reissued as a three disc boxset on .- Background :...

album. It was released in December 1988, and reached #9 on the UK Singles Chart

UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...

 and #22 on the Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...

 in the United States.

Music video

The video for "All She Wants Is" was shot in London with video director Dean Chamberlain

Dean Chamberlain

Dean Chamberlain is a photographer who specializes in unique lighting effects and extended exposure times. Famous models for his pictures sit for up to five hours as he leaves the camera shutter open and "paints" the space around them with carried and projected lights of various colors and shapes,...

, a well-known photographer who had previously taken pictures and filmed a video for the side project Arcadia

Arcadia (band)

Arcadia were the pop group formed in 1985 by Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes and Roger Taylor of Duran Duran, during a break in that band's schedule. However, Roger Taylor appeared in only a few band photographs and in none of the music videos, and stated he was only to be involved in the recording side...

. The clip won a 1988 MTV Video Music Award for innovation.

The video took nearly a month to shoot, using very long exposures to create unusual animated light effects around a girl and the surreal fixtures inside her flat. A photo from the shoot featuring the band members and the girl was used as cover art for the back side of the single.

As the band was in the middle of a hectic promotion schedule, and was unable to spend the necessary weeks standing still to shoot the video, the members each allowed a plaster death mask

Death mask

In Western cultures a death mask is a wax or plaster cast made of a person’s face following death. Death masks may be mementos of the dead, or be used for creation of portraits...

 to be made from their faces, from which latex imitations of the band members' faces were cast. With the masks fitted onto mannequin

Mannequin

A mannequin is an often articulated doll used by artists, tailors, dressmakers, and others especially to display or fit clothing...

s, Chamberlain was able to use painstakingly slow stop motion

Stop motion

Stop motion is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence...

 special effects. Only a few brief scenes at the beginning and end of the video feature the real band members.

B-sides, bonus tracks and remixes

The b-side for "All She Wants Is" is an original medley called "I Believe/All I Need To Know".

There are various remixes of the title track spread across the various releases, many done by Shep Pettibone

Shep Pettibone

Robert E. Pettibone, Jr. is a record producer, remixer, songwriter and club DJ, one of the most prolific of the 1980s. His earliest work known to the public was for one of New York City's top disco/dance radio stations, WRKS 98.7 "Kiss" FM, and later as remixer/producer for the disco label Salsoul...

. The single mix, called the 45 mix, was done by Daniel Abraham

Daniel Abraham (record producer)

Daniel Abraham is a French record producer, sound engineer and record mixer.He has most closely been associated with the band Duran Duran, with whom he worked on the Notorious and Big Thing albums....

.

Covers, samples, & media references

'All She Wants Is' can be heard as background music playing in a bar in the 2003 film 'Monster'.

'All She Wants Is" was used in season 5, episode 5 of Cold Case in 2007.

Faithful Dawn recorded a cover of the song which was only available on a limited edition EP at Whitby 5.5 in 1998.

Chart positions

"All She Wants Is" had a bigger impact in the UK than its predecessor ("I Don't Want Your Love

I Don't Want Your Love

"I Don't Want Your Love" is the seventeenth single from Duran Duran and the first single from the Big Thing album. It was released on September 1988...

"), hitting the top ten; it was the last of twelve UK top ten hits for Duran Duran during the 1980s.

In Europe as in the United States the single became a smash dance hit, reaching high positions on the dance charts.

• #9 UK Singles Chart
  UK Singles Chart
  The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...
  
  
• #22 Billboard Hot 100
  Billboard Hot 100
  The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
  
  
• #24 Billboard Modern Rock Tracks
  Modern Rock Tracks
  Alternative Songs is a music chart in the United States that has appeared in Billboard magazine since September 10, 1988. It lists the 40 most-played songs on modern rock radio stations, most of which are alternative rock songs...
  
   
• #1 Billboard Hot Dance Club Play
  Hot Dance Club Play
  The Hot Dance Club Songs chart is a weekly national survey of the songs that are most popular in U.S. dance clubs...
  
  
• #2 Italy
• #1 European Dance charts

7": EMI / DD 11 (UK)

1. "All She Wants Is (45 Mix)" – 4:36
2. "I Believe/All I Need to Know (Medley)" – 5:04
   • also available on MC in the US (Capitol / 4BX-44287)

12": EMI / 12 DD 11 (UK)

1. "All She Wants Is (Euro Dub Mix)" – 7:34
2. "All She Wants Is (45 Mix)" – 4:36
3. "I Believe/All I Need to Know (Medley)" – 5:04

12": EMI / 12 DDX 11 (UK)

1. "All She Wants Is (US Master Mix)" – 7:16
2. "All She Wants Is (45 Mix)" – 4:36
3. "I Believe/All I Need to Know (Medley)" – 5:04

12": Capitol / V-15434 (US)

1. "All She Wants Is (US Master Mix)" – 7:16
2. "All She Wants Is (Eurohouse mix)" – 7:32
3. "All She Wants Is (45 Mix)" – 4:36
4. "I Believe/All I Need to Know (Medley)" – 5:04

12": EMI / K 060 20 32366 (Netherlands)

1. "All She Wants Is (House Dub Mix)" – 7:07 (aka "Eurohouse Dub")
2. "All She Wants Is (Latino Dub)" – 6:44 (aka "US Masterdub")
3. "All She Wants Is (45 Mix) – 4:34
   • also released on German CD (EMI-Electrola / CDP 560-203236-2)

12": EMI / 12 DD-DJ11 (UK Promo)

1. "All She Wants Is (US Master Mix) – 7:16
2. "All She Wants Is (Eurohouse Dub) – 7:07
3. "All She Wants Is (Eurohouse Mix) – 7:32
4. "All She Wants Is (45 Mix)" – 4:36

12": Capitol / SPRO-79483 (US Promo)

1. "All She Wants Is (US Master Mix)" – 7:16
2. "All She Wants Is (US Masterdub)" – 6:43 (aka "Latino Dub")
3. "All She Wants Is (Eurohouse Mix)" – 7:32
4. "All She Wants Is (Eurohouse Dub I)" – 7:07 (aka "Eurohouse Dub")
5. "All She Wants Is (Eurohouse Dub II)" – 5:43

CD: EMI / CD DD 11 (UK)

1. "All She Wants Is (45 Mix)" – 4:36
2. "Skin Trade (Parisian Mix)" – 8:10
3. "I Believe/All I Need to Know (Medley)" – 5:09
   • also available on 3" CD in the US (Capitol / C3-44287-2)

CD: Toshiba-EMI / XP12-5006 (Japan)

1. "All She Wants Is (45 Mix)" – 4:36
2. "All She Wants Is (Euro Dub Mix)" – 7:34
3. "I Believe/All I Need to Know (Medley)" – 5:09
   • 3" CD reworking of the first UK 12"

Other appearances

Aside from the single and Big Thing

Big Thing

Big Thing is the fifth album by Duran Duran, released worldwide in 1988. It reached #15 in the UK and #24 in the US.A CD reissue was released in 1994. The album is was reissued as a three disc boxset on .- Background :...

, "All She Wants Is" appears on:

• 1989 - Decade: Greatest Hits
  Decade: Greatest Hits
  Decade – Greatest Hits is a greatest hits album by Duran Duran, released on November 15, 1989 .The remix single "Burning the Ground" was released to radio to promote this album; it was created by producer John Jones mixing snippets of the band's biggest hits from the previous decade into a new...
  
  (except in Brazil)
• 1998 - Greatest
  Greatest (Duran Duran album)
  In November 2003, the videotape compilation was released in DVD format, titled Duran Duran: Greatest — The DVD, with hidden extra materials, including alternative versions of some of the videos and interviews of the band, however, this version is much criticised for its extensive use of easter egg...
  
  
• 1998 - Strange Behaviour
  Strange Behaviour
  Strange Behaviour is a remix album of remixes by Duran Duran. It was released by EMI in March 1999.The title comes from a line in the song "Skin Trade": "would someone please explain, the reason for this strange behaviour". The band had previously used "Strange Behaviour" as the name of their 1987...
  
  (Disc 2)
• 2005 - Singles Box Set 1986-1995
  Singles Box Set 1986-1995
  Singles Box Set 1986–1995 is a box set by Duran Duran. Comprising 14 CDs, it was released by EMI 13 September 2004 and features the singles covering the era from Notorious to Thank You....
  
  

Personnel

Duran Duran are:

• Simon Le Bon
  Simon Le Bon
  Simon John Charles Le Bon is an English musician, best known as the lead singer, lyricist and musician of the band Duran Duran and its offshoot, Arcadia.-Early life:...
  
   - Vocals
• John Taylor
  Nigel John Taylor
  John Taylor is an English musician who is best known as the bass guitarist and co-founder of pop rock band Duran Duran....
  
   - Bass
• Nick Rhodes
  Nick Rhodes
  Nick Rhodes is an English musician, is best known as the keyboardist of the pop rock band Duran Duran...
  
   - Keyboards

With:

• Warren Cuccurullo
  Warren Cuccurullo
  Warren Bruce Cuccurullo in Brooklyn, New York is an American rock musician who worked with Frank Zappa, was a founding member of Missing Persons, and has been a long term member of Duran Duran. He also has some notoriety in the porn industry after making nude appearances in a magazine and...
  
  - Guitars

Production:

• Duran Duran - Producer
• Jonathan Elias - Producer
• Daniel Abraham - Producer, Mixer (45 Mix)
• Shep Pettibone - Remixer
• Goh Hotoda - Remix engineer