Spectacled Birthday
Grace Jones & Tanya Roberts on the set of "A View to a Kill"
1985 {July 13th} a video of Duran Duran's "A View To A Kill" was aired on the Dick Clark ABC-TV Saturday-afternoon program, 'American Bandstand'...
At the time "A View To A Kill" was in it's first of two weeks at position #1 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart, and it spent seventeen weeks on the Top 100...
"A View To A Kill" also reached #1 in Canada and Italy, in their native U.K. it peaked at #2 for 3 weeks, and it was "19" by Paul Hardcastle that kept it out of the top spot for those three weeks...
Between 1982 and 2004 the British band had twenty one records on the Hot Top 100 chart, eleven made the Top 10 with two* reaching #1, besides the above "A View To A Kill", their other #1 record was "The Reflex", for two weeks on June 17th, 1984 and it stayed on the Top 100 for twenty one weeks...
