The album is
an incomplete recording of Duran Duran's performance at Sony Music Studios, a
former music recording and mastering facility in New York City, located at 460
West 54th Street.
Created by
MTV, Unplugged is a TV series showcasing musical artists usually playing
acoustic instruments.
Duran Duran
began their 60-minute show with "Hungry Like the Wolf", featuring
Simon Le Bon singing several lines of an introduction with new lyrics.
The band
then followed with "Ordinary World", a new song from The Wedding
Album which Le Bon introduced by saying "This means a lot to us, about the
place we inhabit, our world, the ordinary world."
Performed
with a string section, the show also featured acoustic versions of Duran
Duran's debut single "Planet Earth" and several more songs from The
Wedding Album released earlier that year.
The bootleg
is not a full recording, missing the songs "Skin Trade",
"Notorious" and "The Chauffeur".
Bonus
tracks:
Track 9,
"Notorious", is from the live worldwide broadcast of Duran Duran's
midnight performance at Tower Records in Hollywood, CA, USA on 15 May 1993. The
show was beamed simultaneously to fans in London, Sydney and Tokyo and shown at
those cities' Hard Rock Cafes.
"Notorious"
is an acoustic version which received official releases as B-sides on various
"Too Much Information" CD singles and on the promo-only No Ordinary
EP cassette. The track is also available on the World Broadcast album.
Tracks 10,
11 were recorded during An Acoustic
Evening With Duran Duran Tour in Argentina on 30 April 1993.
