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Released
  
24 December 1988

Label
  
EMI Capitol

Format
  
7" 12" CD-single

B-side
  
"I Believe/All I Need to Know"

Genre
  
New wave freestyle funk

Length
  
4:36 (45 Mix) 7:34 (Euro Dub Mix) 7:19 (US Master Mix) 7:08 (House Dub) 6:43 (US Master Dub)

"All She Wants Is" is the eighteenth single from Duran Duran, and the second single from the Big Thing album. It was released in December 1988, and reached No. 9 on the UK Singles Chart and No. 22 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States.

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Music video

The video for "All She Wants Is" was shot in London with video director Dean Chamberlain, a well-known photographer who had previously taken pictures and filmed a video for the side project Arcadia. The clip won a 1988 MTV Video Music Award for innovation.

The video took nearly a month to shoot, using very long exposures to create unusual animated light effects around a girl and the surreal fixtures inside her flat. A photo from the shoot featuring the band members and the girl was used as cover art for the back side of the single.

As the band was in the middle of a hectic promotion schedule, and was unable to spend the necessary weeks standing still to shoot the video, the members each allowed a plaster life mask to be made from their faces, from which latex imitations of the band members' faces were cast. With the masks fitted onto mannequins, Chamberlain was able to use painstakingly slow stop motion special effects. Only a few brief scenes at the beginning and end of the video feature the real band members.

B-sides, bonus tracks and remixes

The single b-side is an original medley called "I Believe/All I Need To Know".

There are 7 official mixes of "All She Wants Is". They are often credited with different names on different releases. The remixes were all done by Shep Pettibone.

  • "All She Wants Is" (Album Version) - 4:33
  • "All She Wants Is" (45 Mix) / (7" Version) - 4:32
  • "All She Wants Is" (US Master Mix) - 7:19
  • "All She Wants Is" (US Master Dub) / (Latino Dub) - 6:45
  • "All She Wants Is" (Euro House Mix) / (Euro Dub Mix) - 7:33
  • "All She Wants Is" (Euro House Dub I) / (Euro House Dub) / (House Dub) - 7:07
  • "All She Wants Is" (Euro House Dub II) - 5:43

    • 7": EMI. / DD 11 United Kingdom

    1. "All She Wants Is" (45 Mix) – 4:36
    2. "I Believe/All I Need to Know" (Medley) – 5:04

    12": EMI. / 12 DD 11 United Kingdom

    1. "All She Wants Is (Euro Dub Mix)" – 7:34 (a.k.a. "Euro House Mix")
    2. "All She Wants Is (45 Mix)" – 4:36
    3. "I Believe/All I Need to Know" (Medley) – 5:04

    12": EMI. / 12 DDX 11 United Kingdom

    1. "All She Wants Is (US Master Mix)" – 7:19
    2. "All She Wants Is (45 Mix)" – 4:36
    3. "I Believe/All I Need to Know (Medley)" – 5:04

    12": EMI. / 12 DD-DJ11 (Promo) United Kingdom

    1. "All She Wants Is" (Euro House Mix) – 7:34 (a.k.a. "Euro Dub Mix")
    2. "All She Wants Is" (45 Mix) – 4:36
    3. "All She Wants Is" (US Master Mix) – 7:19
    4. "All She Wants Is" (House Dub) - 7:08 (a.k.a. "Euro House Dub", "Euro House Dub I")

    7": Capitol Records. / B-44287 United States

    1. "All She Wants Is" (45 Mix) – 4:36
    2. "I Believe/All I Need to Know" (Medley) – 5:04
  • Also available on MC in the US (Capitol / 4BX-44287)

    • 12": Capitol Records. / V-15434 United States

    1. "All She Wants Is" (US Master Mix) – 7:16
    2. "All She Wants Is" (Euro House Mix) – 7:32 (a.k.a. "Euro Dub Mix")
    3. "All She Wants Is" (45 Mix) – 4:34
    4. "I Believe/All I Need to Know" (Medley) – 5:04

    12": Capitol Records. / SPRO-79483 (Promo) United States

    1. "All She Wants Is (US Master Mix)" – 7:16
    2. "All She Wants Is (US Masterdub)" – 6:43 (a.k.a. "Latino Dub")
    3. "All She Wants Is (Euro House Mix)" – 7:32 (a.k.a. "Euro Dub Mix")
    4. "All She Wants Is (Euro House Dub I)" – 7:07 (a.k.a. "House Dub', "Euro House Dub")
    5. "All She Wants Is (Euro House Dub II)" – 5:43

    12": EMI / K 060 20 32366 Netherlands

    1. "All She Wants Is" (House Dub) – 7:07 (a.k.a. "Euro House Dub", "Euro House Dub I")
    2. "All She Wants Is" (Latino Dub) – 6:44 (a.k.a. "US Masterdub")
    3. "All She Wants Is" (7" Version) – 4:31
  • Also released on German CD (EMI-Electrola / CDP 560-20-3236-2)

    • CD: EMI / CD DD 11 (United Kingdom)

    1. "All She Wants Is" (45 Mix) – 4:36
    2. "Skin Trade" (Parisian Mix) – 8:10
    3. "I Believe/All I Need to Know" (Medley) – 5:09
  • Also available on 3" CD in the US (Capitol / C3-44287-2)

    • CD: Toshiba-EMI / XP12-5006 (Japan)

    1. "All She Wants Is" (45 Mix) – 4:36
    2. "All She Wants Is" (Euro Dub Mix) – 7:34 (a.k.a. "Euro House Mix")
    3. "I Believe/All I Need to Know" (Medley) – 5:09
  • 3" CD reworking of the first UK 12"

    • CD: Part of "Singles Box Set 1986-1995" boxset

    1. "All She Wants Is" (45 Mix) – 4:36
    2. "I Believe/All I Need to Know" (Medley) – 5:04
    3. "All She Wants Is (US Master Mix)" – 7:16
    4. "All She Wants Is" (Euro Dub Mix) – 7:34 (a.k.a. "Euro House Mix")
    5. "Skin Trade" (Parisian Mix) – 8:10

    Chart positions

    "All She Wants Is" had a bigger impact in the UK than its predecessor ("I Don't Want Your Love"), hitting the top ten; it was the last of twelve UK top ten hits for Duran Duran during the 1980s.

    In Europe as in the United States the single became a smash dance hit, reaching high positions on the dance charts.

  • No. 9 UK Singles Chart
  • No. 22 Billboard Hot 100
  • No. 24 Billboard Modern Rock Tracks
  • No. 1 Billboard Hot Dance Club Play
  • No. 2 Italy
  • No. 1 European Dance charts
  • No. 74 Australia (ARIA Chart)

    • Other appearances

    Aside from the single and Big Thing, "All She Wants Is" appears on:

  • 1989 - Decade: Greatest Hits (except in Brazil)
  • 1998 - Greatest
  • 1998 - Strange Behaviour (Disc 2)
  • 2005 - Singles Box Set 1986-1995

    • Personnel

    Duran Duran are:

  • Simon Le Bon - Vocals
  • John Taylor - Bass
  • Nick Rhodes - Keyboards

    • With:

  • Chester Kamen - Guitars
  • Sterling Campbell - Drums

    • Production:

  • Duran Duran - Producer
  • Jonathan Elias - Producer
  • Daniel Abraham - Producer, Mixer (45 Mix)
  • Shep Pettibone - Remixer
  • Goh Hotoda - Remix engineer

    • References

    All She Wants Is Wikipedia
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