I Don't Want Your Love

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"I Don't Want Your Love"
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Single by Duran Duran
from the album Big Thing
B-side "I Don't Want Your Love" (album version)
Released19 September 1988 (1988-09-19) [1]
Genre
Length
  • 3:47 (7″ mix)
  • 4:06 (album version)
  • 7:35 (Big mix)
  • 7:36 (dub mix)
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Duran Duran singles chronology
"Meet El Presidente"
(1987)
"I Don't Want Your Love"
(1988)
"All She Wants Is"
(1988)
Music video
"I Don't Want Your Love" on YouTube

"I Don't Want Your Love" is a song by the English pop rock band Duran Duran, released on 19 September 1988 as the first single from their fifth studio album, Big Thing (1988).

Contents

Cash Box called it "a serviceable single" with "a funky bass and percussive counterpoint" and "more of a mixed vocal arrangement, relying less on [Simon] Lebon's strained style." [4]

Music video

The video for "I Don't Want Your Love" was filmed by director Steve Lowe and produced by the Molotov Brothers, and first aired on September 26, 1988. [5]

The video features the band in a raucous courtroom filled with spectators and tabloid reporters, "testifying" by singing the song into the court's witness microphones. The instrumental bridge in the song is accompanied by images of a young man and woman dancing or fighting (or both).

The other musicians in the video are guitarist Warren Cuccurullo (playing Kamen's guitar part) and David Palmer, former drummer for ABC.

B-sides, bonus tracks and remixes

The single version of "I Don't Want Your Love" was a remix by Shep Pettibone. It was backed by the album version for the B-side.

A UK promo 12″ includes the dub mix of "I Don't Want Your Love", which was unreleased elsewhere until 1999's Strange Behaviour remix collection (which strangely didn't use the lead 12″ mix entitled "Big mix").

Formats and track listings

7″: EMI / YOUR 1 United Kingdom

  1. "I Don't Want Your Love" (7″ mix) – 3:47
  2. "I Don't Want Your Love" (album version) – 4:06

12″: EMI / 12 YOUR 1 United Kingdom

  1. "I Don't Want Your Love" (Big mix) – 7:33
  2. "I Don't Want Your Love" (album version) – 4:05
  3. "I Don't Want Your Love" (7″ mix) – 3:47

12″: EMI / 12 YOUR DJ 1 (Promo) United Kingdom

  1. "I Don't Want Your Love" (Big mix) – 7:35
  2. "I Don't Want Your Love" (dub mix) – 7:36

7″: Capitol / B-44237 United States

  1. "I Don't Want Your Love" (Big and 7 inch mix) – 3:47
  2. "I Don't Want Your Love" (album version) – 4:05

12″: Capitol / V-15417 United States

  1. "I Don't Want Your Love" (Big mix) – 7:35
  2. "I Don't Want Your Love" (album version) – 4:05
  3. "I Don't Want Your Love" (7″ mix) – 3:47

CD: The Singles 1986–1995 box set

  1. "I Don't Want Your Love" (7″ mix) – 3:47
  2. "I Don't Want Your Love" (album version) – 4:05
  3. "I Don't Want Your Love" (Big mix) – 7:35

Chart performance

"I Don't Want Your Love" debuted at number 20 and peaked the following week at number 14 in the UK, but did much better in the rest of Europe, especially in Italy where it spent six non-consecutive weeks at number 1, and was the best-selling single of 1988 in that country. It also did very well in the US, reaching number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100, [6] and number 1 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart. [7]

Charts

Personnel

Duran Duran

Additional musicians

Technical

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