I Don't Want Your Love

"I Don't Want Your Love"
"I Don't Want Your Love"
Single by Duran Duran
from the album Big Thing
B-side	"I Don't Want Your Love" (album version)
Released	19 September 1988 (UK)
Genre	New wave; freestyle;
Length	3:47 (7" mix); 4:06 (album version); 7:35 (Big mix); 7:36 (dub mix);
Label	EMI; Capitol;
Songwriter(s)	Simon Le Bon; John Taylor; Nick Rhodes;
Producer(s)	Duran Duran; Jonathan Elias; Daniel Abraham;
Duran Duran singles chronology
Music video
	"I Don't Want Your Love" on YouTube

"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 in September 1988. As with the album, the band's name was rendered on the artwork as Duranduran.

Cash Box called it "a serviceable single" with "a funky bass and percussive counterpoint" and "more of a mixed vocal arrangement, relying less on [Simon] Lebon's strained style."^[2]

Music video

The video for "I Don't Want Your Love" was filmed by director Steve Lowe and produced by the Molotov Brothers, and first aired on September 26, 1988 (1988-09-26).^[3]

The video features the band in a raucous courtroom filled with spectators and tabloid reporters, "testifying" by singing the song into the court's witness microphones. The instrumental bridge in the song is accompanied by images of a young man and woman dancing or fighting (or both).

The other musicians in the video are guitarist Warren Cuccurullo (playing Kamen's guitar part) and David Palmer, former drummer for ABC.

B-sides, bonus tracks and remixes

The single version of "I Don't Want Your Love" was a remix by Shep Pettibone. It was backed by the album version for the B-side.

A UK promo 12" includes the Dub mix of "I Don't Want Your Love", which was unreleased elsewhere until 1999's Strange Behaviour remix collection (which strangely didn't use the lead 12" mix entitled "Big Mix").

Formats and track listing

7": EMI. / YOUR 1 United Kingdom

"I Don't Want Your Love" (7" mix) – 3:47
"I Don't Want Your Love" (album version) – 4:06

Track 1: additional production and mix by Shep Pettibone

12": EMI / 12 YOUR 1 United Kingdom

"I Don't Want Your Love" (Big mix) – 7:33
"I Don't Want Your Love" (album version) – 4:05
"I Don't Want Your Love" (7" mix) – 3:47

Track 3: additional production and mix by Shep Pettibone
Also available on CD (CD YOUR 1)

"I Don't Want Your Love" (Big mix) – 7:35
"I Don't Want Your Love" (bub mix) – 7:36

7": Capitol Records. / B-44237 United States

"I Don't Want Your Love" (Big and 7 inch mix) – 3:47
"I Don't Want Your Love" (album version) – 4:05

Track 1: additional production and mix by Shep Pettibone

12": Capitol Records. / V-15417 United States

"I Don't Want Your Love" (Big mix) – 7:35
"I Don't Want Your Love" (album version) – 4:05
"I Don't Want Your Love" (7" mix) – 3:47

Track 3: additional production and mix by Shep Pettibone

CD: Part of Singles Box Set 1986–1995 boxset

"I Don't Want Your Love" (7" mix) – 3:47
"I Don't Want Your Love" (album version) – 4:05
"I Don't Want Your Love" (Big mix) – 7:35

Chart positions

"I Don't Want Your Love" debuted at number 20 and peaked the following week at number 14 in the UK, but did much better in the rest of Europe, especially in Italy where it spent six non-consecutive weeks at number 1, and was the best-selling single of 1988 in that country. It also did very well in the U.S., reaching number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100,^[4] and number 1 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play.^[5]

# 14 UK Singles Chart
# 4 Billboard Hot 100
# 13 Billboard Modern Rock Tracks
# 1 Billboard Hot Dance Club Play
# 15 Top 30 (Belgium)
# 16 Dutch Top 40
# 1 Italy
# 6 Canadian RPM Magazine^[6]
# 15 Swiss Top 30

Year-end charts

Chart (1989)	Position
United States (Billboard)^[7]^[8]	62

Other appearances

Aside from the single, "I Don't Want Your Love" has appeared on:

Big Thing (1988)
Decade: Greatest Hits (1989)
Greatest (1998)

Personnel

Duran Duran are:

Simon Le Bon – vocals
John Taylor – bass
Nick Rhodes – keyboards

With:

Steve Ferrone – live drums
Marc Chantereau – percussion
Warren Cuccurullo – rhythm guitar
Chester Kamen – noise guitar, rhythm guitar
Stan Harrison – saxophone
Patrick Bourgoin – saxophone
Mac Gollehon – trumpet
Joniece Jamison – backing vocals
Carole Fredericks – backing vocals

Production:

Duran Duran – producer
Jonathan Elias – producer
Daniel Abraham – producer
Shep Pettibone – remixer
Bob Rosa – remix engineer

References

^ Smith, Robin (10 September 1988). "News: Love It". Record Mirror. p. 4. ISSN 0144-5804.
^ "Single Releases" (PDF). Cash Box. 8 October 1988. p. 12. Retrieved 22 December 2022.
^ "Music Video Database: I Don't Want Your Love". Archived from the original on 25 March 2006. Retrieved 14 August 2006.
^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits: Eighth Edition. Record Research. p. 196.
^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Hot Dance/Disco: 1974-2003. Record Research. p. 84.
^ "RPM Magazine - December 24, 1988 - Page 6" (PDF).
^ "1989 The Year in Music: Top Pop Singles". Billboard. 101 (51): Y-22. 23 December 1989.
^ "Billboard Top 100 – 1989".

[1] Smith, Robin (10 September 1988). "News: Love It". Record Mirror. p. 4. ISSN 0144-5804.

[cb-2] "Single Releases" (PDF). Cash Box. 8 October 1988. p. 12. Retrieved 22 December 2022.

[3] "Music Video Database: I Don't Want Your Love". Archived from the original on 25 March 2006. Retrieved 14 August 2006.

[4] Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits: Eighth Edition. Record Research. p. 196.

[5] Whitburn, Joel (2004). Hot Dance/Disco: 1974-2003. Record Research. p. 84.

[6] "RPM Magazine - December 24, 1988 - Page 6" (PDF).

[7] "1989 The Year in Music: Top Pop Singles". Billboard. 101 (51): Y-22. 23 December 1989.

[8] "Billboard Top 100 – 1989".

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