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"Ordinary World"
File:Duranduran ordinaryworld.jpg
Single by Duran Duran
from the album Duran Duran (The Wedding Album)
B-side "My Antarctica"
Released December 1992 (U.S.)
January 1993 (UK)
Format 7", CD
Recorded Privacy, London
Genre Alternative rock, soft rock
Length 5:39 (album version)
4:43 (single version)
Label EMI - DD 16
Walt Disney - 2004 re-release
Writer(s) Duran Duran (Simon Le Bon, Warren Cuccurullo, Nick Rhodes & John Taylor)
Producer Duran Duran with John Jones
Certification Gold (RIAA)
Duran Duran singles chronology
"Serious"
(1990)
"Ordinary World"
(1992)
"Come Undone"
(1993)
The Wedding Album track listing
"Too Much Information"
(1)
"Ordinary World"
(2)
"Love Voodoo"
(3)

"Ordinary World" is the first single from Duran Duran's self-titled 1993 album, better known as The Wedding Album. The song peaked at No. 3 in the American charts and No. 6 in the British charts. Simon LeBon, the vocalist, later sang this song with Luciano Pavarotti, to help children affected by war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Contents

Background [link]

By the early '90s, Duran Duran's popularity had faded. Their album Liberty had proved a commercial failure, its two singles failing to make a significant showing on British or American charts.

It wasn't until Capitol leaked "Ordinary World" to a radio station in Florida in the autumn of 1992 that it looked like Duran Duran mania might yet hit again. The single proved so popular that Capitol had to push the US release date up, ultimately releasing it in December. In the UK, the original January release date stood. The song can be credited as introducing Duran Duran to a new generation of fans.

Simon LeBon would go on to sing the song with Pavarotti at a WarChild benefit, which was released on home video as Pavarotti & Friends: Together for the Children of Bosnia. Le Bon later said of the event, "If you're talking about name dropping, he's one of the biggest names you could drop, Pav-The-Man."[1]

The keyboards in the song were arranged and performed by Nick Rhodes, John Jones, session musician Matt Thomas and Steve Ferrone at Maison Rouge.

The guitar solo that characterizes this song was arranged and performed by Warren Cuccurullo, former player with Frank Zappa. His instrumental rock trio version became a staple of his solo shows and was included on Road Rage, one of his solo albums.

The song won an Ivor Novello Award in May 1994 and later featured in the soundtrack to the film Layer Cake in 2005.

The music video was filmed by director Nick Egan at Huntington Gardens in San Marino, California.

The lyrics to "Ordinary World" were written by Simon Le Bon as the second of a trilogy of songs for his late friend David Miles; the others being "Do You Believe in Shame?" (1988) and "Out of My Mind" (1997).

B-sides, bonus tracks and remixes [link]

"My Antarctica", a song from the band's previous album Liberty, featured as the main B-side of the "Ordinary World" single.

Many other older singles were also used as B-sides. To capitalise on the success of "Ordinary World" and the new Duran Duran fans it was finding, EMI used the single's release to lure these new fans to the band's back catalogue. This mini-Decade was spread over the two CD singles released during the campaign.

Other mixes [link]

There were several other versions of "Ordinary World" released:[1]

  • The "Acoustic Version" was recorded at the May 15 "No Ordinary Tour" live performance at Tower Records in Hollywood, which was simulcast to Hard Rock Cafés around the world. This live version was found on a number of "Ordinary World" releases outside the UK, most notably the Canadian and American cassette single and featured additional musicians, Gerry L and AD'A. It would eventually be released in the UK on the first CD single for "Come Undone".[2]
  • The "AC Edit" was featured on a US promo CD that came packaged with the Decade album.
  • A live version recorded on Simon Mayo's Radio 1 show featured as a B-side to the band's later 1995 single "White Lines".
  • An extended version recorded at Sony Studios in New York City for Hard Rock Live was included on a promotional 2-track CD in June 2000 by the band's new label Hollywood Records, running at 6:08.
  • Live version released on 'From Mediterranea With Love' a promotional EP digital release in December 2010

Other appearances [link]

Apart from the single, "Ordinary World" has also appeared on :

Albums:

Singles:

EPs:

Track listings [link]

7" Parlophone / DD 16 (UK)
  1. "Ordinary World" (Single version) – 4:43
  2. "My Antarctica" – 5:00
MC Capitol / 7 44908 4 (U.S.)
  1. "Ordinary World" – 5:39
  2. "Ordinary World" (Acoustic version) – 5:05
  3. "Save a Prayer" (Live from the Arena) – 6:11
  • Also released in Canada (Capitol / C4-44908)
CD Parlophone / CD DDS 16 (UK)
  1. "Ordinary World" – 5:49
  2. "Save a Prayer" – 5:25
  3. "Skin Trade" – 4:25
  4. "My Antarctica" – 5:00
  • This CD comes in a 2-CD case that also houses CD DDP 16.
CD Parlophone / CD DDP 16 (UK)
  1. "Ordinary World" (Single version) – 4:43
  2. "The Reflex" – 4:25
  3. "Hungry Like the Wolf" – 3:25
  4. "Girls on Film" – 3:30
  • This CD was released as a picture disc.
CD Capitol / C2
  1. "Ordinary World" – 5:39
  2. "My Antarctica" – 5:00
  3. "Save a Prayer" – 5:25
  4. "UMF" – 5:33
CD Capitol / DPRO-79607 (US)
  1. "Ordinary World" (Single edit) – 4:28
  2. "Ordinary World" (AC edit) – 4:31
  3. "Ordinary World" (Acoustic version) – 5:05
  4. "Ordinary World" (LP version) – 5:39
  • Two-disc US promo. Second CD is Decade. Housed in exclusive sleeve.
CD 10 of Singles Box Set 1986-1995 boxset
  1. "Ordinary World" (Single version) – 4:43
  2. "My Antarctica" – 5:00
  3. "Ordinary World" – 5:49
  4. "Save a Prayer" – 5:25
  5. "Skin Trade" – 4:25
  6. "The Reflex" – 4:25
  7. "Hungry Like the Wolf" – 3:25
  8. "Girls on Film" – 3:30

Charts [link]

Peak positions [link]

Chart (1993) Peak
position
Australian ARIA Singles Chart[3] 18
Austrian Singles Chart[3] 15
Canadian Singles Chart 1
Dutch Top 40[4] 14
French SNEP Singles Chart[3] 6
German Singles Chart[5] 16
Irish Singles Chart[6] 3
Italian Singles Chart[7] 2
Norwegian Singles Chart[3] 5
Swedish Singles Chart[3] 2
Swiss Singles Chart[3] 11
UK Singles Chart[8] 6
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[9] 3
U.S. Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks[9] 2
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks[9] 14
U.S. Billboard Top 40 Mainstream[9] 1

End of year charts [link]

End of year chart (1993) Position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[10] 34

Certifications [link]

Country Certification Date Sales certified
U.S.[11] Gold March 19, 1993 500,000

Cover versions [link]

"Ordinary World"
File:OrdinaryWorld.jpg
Single by Aurora featuring Naimee Coleman
from the album Dreaming
Released 1999
Format CD single
Recorded 1998
Genre Progressive house/Progressive trance
Length 4:26
Label U-Music
Virgin
Writer(s) Duran Duran
Aurora chronology
"Hear You Calling"
(1999)
"Ordinary World"
(2000)
"The Day It Rained Forever"
(2000)

References [link]

  1. ^ Tom McClintock's Duran Duran discographyPDF (216 KiB)
  2. ^ The Duran Duran Timeline: 1993
  3. ^ a b c d e f "Ordinary World", in various singles charts Lescharts.com (Retrieved April 7, 2008)
  4. ^ "Single top 100 over 1993" (in Dutch) (pdf). Top40. https://www.top40.nl/pdf/Top%20100/top%20100%20-%201993.pdf. Retrieved 15 April 2010. 
  5. ^ "Duran Duran singles, German Singles Chart" (in German). musicline. https://www.musicline.de/de/chartverfolgung_summary/artist/Duran+Duran/single. Retrieved 17 April 2010. 
  6. ^ Irish Single Chart Irishcharts.ie (Retrieved April 7, 2008)
  7. ^ Italian Single Chart Hit parade Italia (Retrieved May 30, 2008)
  8. ^ UK Singles Chart Chartstats.com (Retrieved April 7, 2008)
  9. ^ a b c d Billboard Allmusic.com (Retrieved September 5, 2008)
  10. ^ "Billboard Top 100 - 1993". https://longboredsurfer.com/charts.php?year=1993. Retrieved 2010-08-27. 
  11. ^ U.S. certifications, database riaa.com (Retrieved September 5, 2008)

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Ordinary World (novel)

Ordinary World (Chinese: 平凡的世界; pinyin: Píng Fán de Shì Jiè) is a novel by Chinese author Lu Yao. It consists of three volumes with a total of 1.1 million Chinese characters. In 1991, it won the Mao Dun Literature Prize and was honored with the title "a bright pearl of the Mao Dun Literature Prize crown".

Plot

The first volume

The story begins in the autumn of 1975, a year before the end of the Cultural Revolution in an unknown province in China.. An ordinary teenager going into adulthood in a distant village in Western China, Shaoping Sun goes to the county of YuanXi to complete his high school. His humble descent makes him shy and diffident. He falls in love with his classmate Hongmei Hao, a girl of upper class descent, which is notorious during the Cultural Revolution. However, this relationship is revealed by their classmate Yuying Hou, and the abashed Hao have no choice but to end this relationship. Hao then quickly begins another relationship with her monitor, Yangmin Gu, a young man whose family is relatively much better than Sun's. After Sun's graduation from high school, he went back home and becomes a teacher in the local village school and then becomes friend with Xiaoxia Tian, daughter of Fujun Tian, the vice president of the county's revolutionary committee.

Syria

Coordinates: 35°N 38°E / 35°N 38°E / 35; 38

Syria (i/ˈsɪ.rɪə/; Arabic: سوريا or سورية, Sūriyā or Sūrīyah), officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in Western Asia. De jure Syrian territory borders Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest, but the government's control now extends to approximately 30–40% of the de jure state area and less than 60% of the population.

A country of fertile plains, high mountains, and deserts, Syria is home to diverse ethnic and religious groups, including Syrian Arabs, Greeks, Armenians, Assyrians, Kurds, Circassians,Mandeans and Turks. Religious groups include Sunnis, Christians, Alawites, Druze, Mandeans, Shiites, Salafis, and Yazidis. Sunni Arabs make up the largest population group in Syria.

In English, the name "Syria" was formerly synonymous with the Levant (known in Arabic as al-Sham), while the modern state encompasses the sites of several ancient kingdoms and empires, including the Eblan civilization of the 3rd millennium BC. Its capital Damascus is among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. In the Islamic era, Damascus was the seat of the Umayyad Caliphate and a provincial capital of the Mamluk Sultanate in Egypt.

Syria (disambiguation)

Syria is a country in the Middle East, incorporating north-eastern Levant and Eastern Mesopotamia. Syria, Siria, and Suryani may also refer to:

Geography and history

The Region of Syria refers to wider historical geographic region. In this sense it can refer to:

In the Middle East

  • Arab Kingdom of Syria, a short-living Hashemite kingdom in 1920, installed after WWI and abolished by the French
  • Assyria
  • Bilad al-Sham, a province of the early Caliphates, corresponding to former Roman Syria
  • Coele-Syria, a coastal Levantine province split from Syria Palaestina in the late 2nd century CE
  • Coele-Syria, a province of the Seleucid Empire
  • French Mandate for Syria, incorporating the State of Syria (1924–30) and later the Syrian Republic (1930–58), which gained full independence in 1946
  • Roman Syria, a Roman province between 64 BCE and 135 CE
  • Syria Palaestina, a Roman province between 135 CE and 390
  • Syria Prima, province of the Byzantine Empire, transformed from former Roman Syria
  • Syria Secunda, province of the Byzantine Empire, transformed from former Roman Syria
  • Roman Syria

    Syria was an early Roman province, annexed to the Roman Republic in 64 BC by Pompey in the Third Mithridatic War following the defeat of Armenian King Tigranes the Great. Following the partition of the Herodian Kingdom into tetrarchies in 6 AD, it was gradually absorbed into Roman provinces, with Roman Syria annexing Iturea and Trachonitis. Later, in 135 AD, in the aftermath of the Bar Kokhba revolt, Syrian province was merged with Judea province, creating the larger province of Syria Palaestina.

    Provincia Syria

    During the Principate.

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    Syria Palæstina was established by the merger of Roman Syria and Roman Jud(a)ea, following the defeat of the Bar Kokhba Revolt in 135.

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    The governor of Syria retained the civil administration of the whole large province undiminished, and held for long alone in all Asia a command of the first rank. It was only in the course of the second century that a diminution of his prerogatives occurred, when Hadrian took one of the four legions from the governor of Syria and handed it over to the governor of Palestine. It was Severus who at length withdrew the first place in the Roman military hierarchy from the Syrian governor. After having subdued the province (which had wished at that time to make Niger emperor, as it had formerly done with its governor Vespasian) amidst resistance from the capital Antioch in particular, he ordained its partition into a northern and a southern half, and gave to the governor of the former, which was called Coele-Syria, two legions, to the governor of the latter, the province of Syro-Phoenicia, one legion.

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    Ordinary World

    by: Fernanda Takai

    Came in from a rainy Thursday on the avenue thought I heard you talking softly
    I turned on the lights, the TV and the radio still I can't escape the ghost of you
    What has happened to it all? Crazy, some say Where is the life that I recognize? gone away
    But I won't cry for yesterday there's an ordinary world Somehow I have to find and as I try to make my way to the ordinary world I will learn to survive
    Passion or coincidence once prompted you to say "Pride will tear us both apart" Well now pride's gone out the window cross the rooftops run away left me in the vacuum of my heart
    What is happening to me? Crazy, some say Where is my friend when I need you most? Gone away
    but I won't cry for yesterday there's an ordinary world somehow I have to find and as I try to make my way to the ordinary world I will learn to survive
    Papers in the roadside tell of suffering and greed here today, forgot tomorrow ooh, here besides the news of holy war and holy need ours is just a little sorrowed talk
    And I don't cry for yesterday there's an ordinary world Somehow I have to find and as I try to make my way to the ordinary world I will learn to survive




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