I Don't Want Your Love Explained

I Don't Want Your Love
Cover:	Duranduran idontwantyourlove.jpg
Border:	yes
Type:	single
Artist:	Duran Duran
Album:	Big Thing
B-Side:	"I Don't Want Your Love" (album version)
Released:	19 September 1988 (UK)^[1]
Genre:	Dance-pop^[2] house^[3] freestyle
Length:	3:47 (7″ mix) 4:06 (album version) 7:35 (Big mix) 7:36 (dub mix)
Label:	EMI Capitol
Producer:	Duran Duran Jonathan Elias Daniel Abraham
Prev Title:	Meet El Presidente
Prev Year:	1987
Next Title:	All She Wants Is
Next Year:	1988

"I Don't Want Your Love" is a song by the English pop rock band Duran Duran, released on 19 September 1988 as the first single from their fifth studio album, Big Thing (1988).

Cash Box called it "a serviceable single" with "a funky bass and percussive counterpoint" and "more of a mixed vocal arrangement, relying less on [Simon] Lebon's strained style."^[4]

Music video

The video for "I Don't Want Your Love" was filmed by director Steve Lowe and produced by the Molotov Brothers, and first aired on .^[5]

The video features the band in a raucous courtroom filled with spectators and tabloid reporters, "testifying" by singing the song into the court's witness microphones. The instrumental bridge in the song is accompanied by images of a young man and woman dancing or fighting (or both).

The other musicians in the video are guitarist Warren Cuccurullo (playing Kamen's guitar part) and David Palmer, former drummer for ABC.

B-sides, bonus tracks and remixes

The single version of "I Don't Want Your Love" was a remix by Shep Pettibone. It was backed by the album version for the B-side.

A UK promo 12″ includes the dub mix of "I Don't Want Your Love", which was unreleased elsewhere until 1999's Strange Behaviour remix collection (which strangely didn't use the lead 12″ mix entitled "Big mix").

Formats and track listings

7″: EMI / YOUR 1 United Kingdom

1. "I Don't Want Your Love" (7″ mix) – 3:47
2. "I Don't Want Your Love" (album version) – 4:06

• Track 1 features additional production and mix by Shep Pettibone.

12″: EMI / 12 YOUR 1 United Kingdom

1. "I Don't Want Your Love" (Big mix) – 7:33
2. "I Don't Want Your Love" (album version) – 4:05
3. "I Don't Want Your Love" (7″ mix) – 3:47

• Also available on CD (CD YOUR 1).

12″: EMI / 12 YOUR DJ 1 (Promo) United Kingdom

1. "I Don't Want Your Love" (Big mix) – 7:35
2. "I Don't Want Your Love" (dub mix) – 7:36

7″: Capitol / B-44237 United States

1. "I Don't Want Your Love" (Big and 7 inch mix) – 3:47
2. "I Don't Want Your Love" (album version) – 4:05

12″: Capitol / V-15417 United States

1. "I Don't Want Your Love" (Big mix) – 7:35
2. "I Don't Want Your Love" (album version) – 4:05
3. "I Don't Want Your Love" (7″ mix) – 3:47

CD: The Singles 1986–1995 box set

1. "I Don't Want Your Love" (7″ mix) – 3:47
2. "I Don't Want Your Love" (album version) – 4:05
3. "I Don't Want Your Love" (Big mix) – 7:35

Chart performance

"I Don't Want Your Love" debuted at number 20 and peaked the following week at number 14 in the UK, but did much better in the rest of Europe, especially in Italy where it spent six non-consecutive weeks at number 1, and was the best-selling single of 1988 in that country. It also did very well in the US, reaching number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100,^[6] and number 1 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart.^[7]

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1988–1989)! scope="col"

Peak position
Canada Top Singles (RPM)^[8]	6
Italy (Musica e dischi)^[9]	1
US Billboard Hot 100^[10]	4
US Modern Rock Tracks (Billboard)	13
US Hot Dance Club Play (Billboard)	1

Year-end charts

Chart (1989)! scope="col"

Position
US Billboard Hot 100^[11] ^[12]	62

Personnel

Duran Duran

• Simon Le Bon – vocals
• John Taylor – bass
• Nick Rhodes – keyboards

Additional musicians

• Steve Ferrone – live drums
• Marc Chantereau – percussion
• Warren Cuccurullo – rhythm guitar
• Chester Kamen – noise guitar, rhythm guitar
• Stan Harrison – saxophone
• Patrick Bourgoin – saxophone
• Mac Gollehon – trumpet
• Joniece Jamison – backing vocals
• Carole Fredericks – backing vocals

Technical

• Duran Duran – producer
• Jonathan Elias – producer
• Daniel Abraham – producer
• Shep Pettibone – remixer
• Bob Rosa – remix engineer

Notes and References

1. Smith . Robin . 10 September 1988 . News: Love It . . 4 . 0144-5804.
2. News: Essential Duran Duran: Their 30 greatest songs, ranked . 27 October 2023 . Erlewine . Stephen Thomas . . 25 May 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240803164149/https://www.avclub.com/duran-duran-essential-30-best-songs-ranked-1850956091?slide=8#slideshow . 3 August 2024 . live.
3. Point of No Return Edition. Hit Parade Music History and Music Trivia. Slate. Molanphy. Chris. July 16, 2022. March 31, 2024.
4. 8 October 1988. Single Releases. Cash Box. 12. 22 December 2022.
5. Web site: Music Video Database: I Don't Want Your Love . 14 August 2006 . 25 March 2006 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060325022520/http://www.mvdbase.com/video.php?id=9212 . dead .
6. Book: Whitburn, Joel . The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits: Eighth Edition . Joel Whitburn . 2004 . Record Research . 196.
7. Book: Whitburn, Joel . Hot Dance/Disco: 1974–2003. Joel Whitburn . 2004 . Record Research . 84.
8. Web site: December 24, 1988 . Top RPM Singles – December 24, 1988 . March 17, 2024.
9. Web site: Classifiche . March 17, 2024 . . it. Select "Singoli" in the "Tipo" field, type "I don't want your love" in the "Titolo" field and press "cerca".
10. Web site: Billboard Hot 100: Week of December 3, 1988. March 17, 2024. Billboard.
11. December 23, 1989 . 1989 The Year in Music: Top Pop Singles . Y-22 . Billboard . 101 . 51 .
12. Web site: Billboard Top 100 – 1989.