by Mark Nobes, chief editor
"A View To A Kill" was the band's thirteenth single release. The B-side on all of the UK releases is "A View To A Kill (That Fatal Kiss)", which is an orchestral instrumental from the film by John Barry.
The video was directed by the legendary duo Kevin Godley and Lol Creme, and filmed around the Eiffel Tower in Paris. It mixes scenes from the movie with Duran Duran pretending to be special agents which involves a flying VHS video camera - this was long before drones were invented!
John Taylor is dressed in black and uses a gun which is disguised as a telescope. Simon Le Bon is dressed as a traditional french man with a black beret and vertically striped T-shirt. He is also wearing a white trenchcoat, black leather gloves and headphones which are attached to a bomb detonator disguised as a Sony Walkman. He uses it to denotate a bomb in a helicopter and an airship. Nick Rhodes is pretending to be a photographer with a female model. Andy Taylor plays a blind accordian player and uses one of the buttons to destroy Nick's camera. Roger Taylor is hidden in a van as the co-ordinator.
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