DURAN DURAN :: SEVEN AND THE RAGGED TIGER :: VINYYLI LP 1983

Seven and the Ragged Tiger

Label .. EMI – 1C 064 1654541
Format .. Vinyl, LP, Album
Land .. Europe 1983
Genre .. Rock, Pop
Style .. New Wave, Synth-pop

Singles from Seven and the Ragged Tiger

"Union of the Snake"
Released: 17 October 1983

"New Moon on Monday"
Released: 14 January 1984

"The Reflex"
Released: 16 April 1984

Seven and the Ragged Tiger is the third studio album by the English pop rock band Duran Duran,

released in November 1983.

It was the band's first and only number one album in the UK,

and would prove to be the last studio album for the band's original line-up

In 1983, Duran Duran intended to spend a year away from the United Kingdom as tax exiles, as their income had increased dramatically after the success of Rio and the reissue of their 1981 debut album Duran Duran the previous year.

Prior commitments brought the band back to the UK in July 1983, including a charity gig playing in front of Prince Charles and Princess Diana at the Aston Villa ground at Villa Park.

It was later revealed that the Irish Republican Army had plotted to plant a bomb at the concert in order to injure Charles and Diana, but the IRA member sent to carry out the plot, Sean O'Callaghan, was in fact an informer working for the Irish Government and successfully helped to pull the plug on the operation.