The CD single was recalled two days after its release, and reissued a few days later, but for several days during the song's initial promotion, the CD was unavailable in shops.ĭespite the collectibility of this release, it reached no higher in the charts than #30 in the UK and #72 in the US. The song's first week of release was complicated because the original CD single was discovered to have an overlong playing time that disqualified it from some of the sales charts. As such, the 7" triple pack issued by EMI in the UK included tour dates in the artwork. "Do You Believe In Shame?" was released to coincide with the band's Electric Theatre Tour which began in Newcastle on 15 April 1989.
The members of Duran Duran have always denied that they intentionally copied any other works, and that the similarity of the two songs was based on what they described as a "basic blues progression". The writing credits were changed accordingly. There was a successful legal challenge over the close resemblance of the melody of "Do You Believe In Shame?" to that of the Dale Hawkins classic "Suzie Q" (more famously covered by Creedence Clearwater Revival and The Rolling Stones). And not surprisingly, it’s the best thing we’ve heard out of D.D." Le Bon has since said that "Shame" is the first part of a trilogy of songs written as a tribute to Miles, the other songs being " Ordinary World" and " Out of My Mind".Ĭash Box said that the song "is a shameless ripoff of ' Suzie Q.' Same feel, same melody.
The song was dedicated to three of the band's dead friends: record producer Alex Sadkin, artist Andy Warhol and Simon Le Bon's childhood friend David Miles. " Do You Believe In Shame?" is a song by British band Duran Duran released on 10 April 1989 as the final single from their 1988 album Big Thing.
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