Duran DuneFather – Duran Duran and their song “A View to a Kill”
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Duran_DuneFather
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/Quest:A_View_to_a_Curse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duran_Duran
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_View_to_a_Kill_(song)
https://youtu.be/Fp4CR2HcHLQ?si=KeGZcyW0GbBvjcFC
Duran DuneFather is a Hopper cursed by Morganthe, causing everything he touches to turn into sand. This forces him to live in isolation from the Hopper clan. He resides in the Sands of Time Cave in Sandstone Village.
Edwin the ArcaneArchitect sends you to Duran DuneFather in the Sands of Time Cave to see the power of the Shadow Queen’s curse. He cautions you that you may come “face-to-face the fatal sounds of broken dreams.” He urges you not to “hop into the fire!”
Duran DuneFather laments that if you come looking for the terrible might of the Shadow Queen, then he is your “view to a curse.”
Duran Duran is an English pop rock band formed in Birmingham in 1978 by singer Stephen Duffy, keyboardist Nick Rhodes and guitarist/bassist John Taylor. With the addition of bassist Simon Colley and drummer Roger Taylor the following year, the band went through numerous personnel changes before May 1980, when they settled on their most famous line-up by adding guitarist Andy Taylor and lead vocalist Simon Le Bon.
Duran Duran were innovators of the music video and a leading band in the MTV-driven Second British Invasion of the US in the 1980s. By 1984, the band had achieved levels of fame similar to Beatlemania. The band’s first major hit was “Girls on Film” (1981), from their self-titled debut album, the popularity of which was enhanced by a controversial music video. The band’s breakthrough second album was Rio (1982), a worldwide hit. The songs “Hungry Like the Wolf” and “Rio” featured cinematic music videos directed by Australian film maker Russell Mulcahy and became two of their biggest hits. Their third album, Seven and the Ragged Tiger, became their only UK number one album and featured the US and UK number one single “The Reflex”. In 1985, the band topped the US charts with the single “A View to a Kill” from the soundtrack of the James Bond film of the same title.
“A View to a Kill” is a song by English rock band Duran Duran, released on May 6, 1985. Written and recorded as the theme for the James Bond film of the same name, it became one of the band’s biggest hits. It is the only James Bond theme song to have reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100; it also made it to number two for three weeks on the UK Singles Chart. The song was the last track recorded by the most famous five-member lineup of Duran Duran until their reunion in 2001 and was also performed by the band at Live Aid in Philadelphia, their final performance together before their first split.
[Verse 1]
Meeting you with a view to a kill
Face to face in secret places, feel the chill
Nightfall covers me, but you know the plans I’m making
Still overseas, could it be the whole Earth opening wide
A sacred why, a mystery gaping inside
A week is why, until we…
[Chorus]
Dance into the fire
That fatal kiss is all we need
Dance into the fire
To fatal sounds of broken dreams
Dance into the fire
That fatal kiss is all we need
Dance into the fire
[Verse 2]
The choice for you is the view to a kill
Between the shades assassination standing still
The first crystal tears fall as snowflakes on your body
First time in years to drench your skin in lover’s rosy stain
A chance to find the phoenix for the flame
A chance to die, but can we…
[Chorus]
Dance into the fire
That fatal kiss is all we need
Dance into the fire
To fatal sounds of broken dreams
Dance into the fire
That fatal kiss is all we need
Dance into the fire
When all we see is the view to a kill
“A View to a Kill” Lyrics (c)1985 Duran Duran and John Barry – EMI Records
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Text for this article is excerpted from the linked wiki pages
Duran DuneFather image is from Wizard101, and is copyright of KingsIsle Entertainment.
Duran Duran 1983 publicity still is borrowed from Wikipedia. It is in the public domain.
“A View to a Kill” single cover image is copyright EMI Records and Eon Productions and borrowed from Wikipedia.
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