Save a Prayer - 2009 Remaster

Duran Duran lead singer Simon Le Bon wrote the lyric to "Save A Prayer" while the band was on tour. The song revolves around a chance meeting between two people that flares into a one-off sexual encounter. Le Bon described the lyric as "realistic, and not romantic."

According to Le Bon, the song's chorus structure is based on Gordon Lightfoot's "If You Could Read My Mind."

The video was filmed by frequent Duran Duran, Australian director Russell Mulcahy, in Sri Lanka. The visual earned plenty of airplay on MTV with its shots of the ancient rock fortress of Sigiriya and the ruins of a Buddhist temple at Polonnaruwas as well as the island's southern coastline.