Found this little pearl of wisdom on a BBC website.
Duran Duran's "Save A Prayer" was released in August 1982 and became the highest charting song from their immensely successful second album Rio. It was held to the number 2 slot in the UK charts by Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger". In March 1983, the band bagged their first #1 with "Is There Something I Should Know" and their success continued into the early 90s.
The quintessentially 80s sound of this ballad was courtesy of keyboard player Nick Rhodes who'd spent the afternoon playing about on some new synths in a small room of the Rumrunner club in Birmingham where the band had regularly played in the early days of their career.
By the time singer Simon Le Bon got to the rehearsal room, the music for the verse had written itself. Simon immediately set to work on the melody and the chorus which was a variation on a melody of Gordon Lightfoot's "If You Could Read My Mind".
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