(Heads up: The stage banter contains some swearing.)Īlthough its lyrics are not exactly noble or uplifting - it's about a one-night stand in an exotic location - for my money, Save a Prayer is the most beautiful song Duran Duran has ever written.Īfter Paris, the meaning of the song's chorus - 'Don't say a prayer for me now, save it till the morning after' - changed for me, perhaps forever. While reporting on the attacks at the Bataclan, I happened upon a video featuring EODM and Duran Duran. Recorded on Halloween for Britain's TFI Friday, the bands teamed up for Duran Duran's 1982 ballad Save a Prayer, which EODM had covered on their last album, Zipper Down. He had worked on tours for the Black Keys, Panic at the Disco and Alice in Chains. Welcome to episode 93 of the EOH The number 93 has great occult significance symbolising the vibrational awakening of man from beast.
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The band's social media accounts have not provided a definitive update on their condition. 'For those unaware, EODM and their fans were the band caught up in the horrific atrocities in Paris this week,' said a post on the fan site. Rather than rehash a stomping classic from likeminded ancestors such as Kiss or ZZ Top (or even Spinal Tap), EODM smears a sloppy kiss all over Duran Duran's 'Save A Prayer.' Hughes and Homme give. (Britain's Guardian and CNBC put the tally of dead concertgoers at 87.) Now they will probably always be remembered as the group that was playing at the time ISIS terrorists stormed Paris' Bataclan theater armed with Kalashnikovs the concert hall and killed more than 80 people. Tellingly, 'Save A Prayer' is about a one-night stand it may be the ultimate one-night-stand anthem and Zipper Down, even though it took seven years to arrive, feels just as quick and easy. That all changed Friday, when the good-time band founded in 1998 by Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age) and Jesse Hughes became a footnote to history. It's unlikely that many people outside of the hard rock scene had ever heard of the Eagles of Death Metal until this week. (For the uninitiated, the band's name is a bit of a misnomer.)