Songoftheday 9/17/14 - We can decide this there'll be no tears no tragedy, try I wouldn't break and cry if you walk away and leave me...

Arcadia - "Goodbye Is Forever"
from the album So Red The Rose (1985)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #33 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 3

Today's Song of the Day comes from one of the two side projects from members of the new romantic Fab Five, Duran Duran, that made a big splash on the charts in the mid-80s. As Andy and John Taylor put out the rock-edged Power Stations album, the trio of singer Simon LeBon, keyboardist Nick Rhodes, and drummer Andy Taylor came together temporarily as Arcadia, the much more "Duran-ny" of the two bands. Their So Red The Rose project had already scored them a #6 hit with "Election Day" (matching the height of the Power Station's "Some Like it Hot" single). The second single, "Goodbye Is Forever", is an even more infectious pop candy piece that would've fit nicely on Seven And The Ragged Tiger...

"Goodbye Is Forever" became Arcadia's second and final top-40 pop hit in the U.S. in March of 1986. It wasn't a single in their native Britain; rather "The Promise" was put out, and reached #37 there. The followed it with "The Flame" (my favorite from the album), which was a minor hit in England at #58. Shortly after, LeBon and Rhodes rejoined John Taylor to reboot Duran Duran for the Notorious album in the fall of 1986.

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and here is a little mini-doc on the making of the video...


Up tomorrow: Two American rock stars go "Searching" for a live hit.