Thank You (Duran Duran album)

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|rev2 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

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|rev4 = Rolling Stone

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|rev5 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide

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|rev7 = Spin

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The two singles from the album were covers of Grandmaster Melle Mel's "White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)" and Lou Reed's "Perfect Day". "Lay Lady Lay" was a single in Italy and in Spain.

J. D. Considine of Rolling Stone said "some of the ideas at play here are stunningly wrongheaded, like the easy-listening arrangement given Elvis Costello's 'Watching the Detectives' or the version of Zeppelin's 'Thank You' that sounds like the band is covering Chris DeBurgh. But it takes a certain demented genius to recognize Iggy Pop's 'Success' as the Gary Glitter tune it was meant to be or to redo '911 Is a Joke' so it sounds more like Beck than like Public Enemy."

In 2006, the album was declared the worst album of all time by Q magazine.{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/the-worst-album-in-the-world-ever-6105595.html|title=The worst album in the world... ever!|date=26 March 2006|website=The Independent|access-date=9 January 2019}}

"Perfect Day" was the first single from Thank You and became a moderate hit, peaking at number 28 on the UK Singles Chart. In the US the song narrowly failed to crack the Billboard Hot 100, only "bubbling under" as high as number 101 from 24 June to 8 July 1995. The B-side of the single was a version of the Velvet Underground's song "Femme Fatale", previously available in 1993, on Duran Duran's Wedding Album.{{cite web|url=http://popdose.com/bottom-feeders-the-ass-end-of-the-90s-vol-23/4/|title=Bottom Feeders: The Ass End of the '90s, Vol. 23 |date=11 June 2012 |access-date=2013-12-05 |publisher= Popdose.com }}

Lou Reed said on the electronic press kit that accompanied the album that Duran Duran's version of "Perfect Day" was "the best cover ever completed of one of my own songs".Thank You EPK, 1995.

{{Track listing

| extra_column = Original artist

| total_length = 54:26

| title1 = White Lines

| length1 = 5:31

| writer1 = Melvin Glover; Sylvia Robinson

| extra1 = Melle Mel

| title2 = I Wanna Take You Higher

| length2 = 5:06

| writer2 = Sylvester Stewart

| extra2 = Sly and the Family Stone

| title3 = Perfect Day

| length3 = 3:51

| writer3 = Lou Reed

| extra3 = Lou Reed

| title4 = Watching the Detectives

| length4 = 4:48

| writer4 = Elvis Costello

| extra4 = Elvis Costello

| title5 = Lay Lady Lay

| length5 = 3:53

| writer5 = Bob Dylan

| extra5 = Bob Dylan

| title6 = 911 Is a Joke

| length6 = 3:59

| writer6 = William Jonathan Drayton Jr.; Keith Shocklee; Eric Sadler

| extra6 = Public Enemy

| title7 = Success

| length7 = 4:05

| writer7 = David Bowie; Ricky Gardiner

| extra7 = Iggy Pop

| title8 = Crystal Ship

| length8 = 2:52

| writer8 = Jim Morrison

| extra8 = The Doors

| title9 = Ball of Confusion

| length9 = 3:46

| writer9 = Norman Whitfield; Barrett Strong

| extra9 = The Temptations

| title10 = Thank You

| length10 = 6:36

| writer10 = Jimmy Page; Robert Plant

| extra10 = Led Zeppelin

| title11 = Drive By

| length11 = 5:34

| writer11 = Simon Le Bon; Warren Cuccurullo; Nick Rhodes; John Taylor

| extra11 = Duran Duran

| title12 = I Wanna Take You Higher Again

| length12 = 4:25

| writer12 = Sylvester Stewart

| extra12 = Sly and the Family Stone

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{{Track listing

| headline = Bonus tracks on Japanese release

| extra_column = Original artist

| total_length = 64:58

| title13 = Diamond Dogs

| length13 = 6:10

| writer13 = David Bowie

| extra13 = David Bowie

| title14 = Femme Fatale

| length14 = 4:22

| writer14 = Lou Reed

| extra14 = The Velvet Underground and Nico

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{{Track listing

| headline = Perfect Day UK single disc 1

| extra_column = Original artist

| title1 = The Needle and the Damage Done

| length1 = 2:06

| writer1 = Neil Young

| extra1 = Neil Young

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Duran Duran

• Warren Cuccurullo – guitar, production
• Simon Le Bon – vocals, production
• Nick Rhodes – keyboards, production
• John Taylor – bass guitar, production

Additional musicians

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• Roger Taylor – drums on "Perfect Day" and "Watching the Detectives"
• Steve Ferrone – drums on "White Lines" and "Crystal Ship"
• Tony Thompson – drums on "I Wanna Take You Higher"
• Anthony J. Resta – drums on "White Lines", "Lay Lady Lay", "911 Is a Joke", "Ball of Confusion" and "I Wanna Take You Higher Again"
• Terry Bozzio – drums on "Success", "Thank You" and "Drive By"
• Abe Laboriel Jr. – drums on "Lay Lady Lay" and "I Wanna Take You Higher Again"
• John Jones – additional keyboards, guitars, and vocals
• Jonathan Elias – Moog synthesizer on "Crystal Ship"
• Bruce Dukov – violin
• Henry Ferber – violin strings
• Ron Folsom – violin strings
• Armen Garabedian – violin strings
• Berj Garabedian – violin strings
• Michelle Kikuchi-Richards – violin strings
• Joy Lyle – violin strings
• Maria Newman – violin strings
• Pamela Goldsmith – viola
• Scott Haupert – viola
• Suzi Katayama – cello
• Lee Oskar – harmonica on "Watching the Detectives" and "I Wanna Take You Higher"
• Flo & Eddie – background vocals on "Success"
• Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five – background vocals on "White Lines" and "I Wanna Take You Higher"
• Grandmaster Melle Mel – background vocals, rapping on "White Lines"
• Curtis King – background vocals on "I Wanna Take You Higher"
• Lamya – background vocals on "White Lines" "I Wanna Take You Higher" and "Drive By"
• Maxanne Lewis – background vocals on "Ball of Confusion"
• Tessa Niles – background vocals on "Perfect Day" and "Watching the Detectives"

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Technical

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• John Jones – producing, audio engineering, mixing, programming
• Anthony J. Resta – production, engineering, mixing, programming
• Steve Churchyard – engineering
• Avril McCintosh – engineering
• Ken Scott – engineering
• Tony Taverner – engineering
• Jason Corsaro – mixing
• David Richards – mixing
• Tim Palmer – mixing
• Bob St. John – mixing, production
• Mark Tinley – programming
• Tim Young – mastering

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{{Certification Table Entry|region=Canada|artist=Duran Duran|title=Thank You|award=Gold|type=album|relyear=1995|certyear=1995|date=24 April 1995|access-date=18 January 2019}}

{{Certification Table Entry|region=United States|artist=Duran Duran|title=Thank You|award=Gold|type=album|relyear=1995|certyear=1995|date=14 June 1995|access-date=18 January 2019}}

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