Thank You is the eighth studio album by the English pop rock band Duran Duran. It was released on 27 March 1995 by Parlophone. Consisting primarily of cover versions, the album performed moderately on the charts, reaching number 12 on the UK Albums Chart and number 19 on the US Billboard 200, but received negative reviews from critics.
The title track, "Thank You" (originally by Led Zeppelin), first appeared in an edited form (5:06) on the soundtrack to the 1994 film With Honors. A still shorter edit (4:32) later appeared on Encomium: A Tribute to Led Zeppelin, a month before the full version was included on this album.
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Critical reception
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 de Burgh. 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.
"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.
Lou Reed said on the electronic press kit that accompanied Duran Duran's version of "Perfect Day" was "the best cover ever completed of one of my own songs".
Reissue
On 10 April 2026, Thank You and the band's previous album Duran Duran were reissued for the first time since their original releases. The new releases, through Warner Records, are available on double LP and CD formats and feature no bonus tracks.
Personnel
Duran Duran
Warren Cuccurullo – guitar, production
Simon Le Bon – vocals, production
Nick Rhodes – keyboards, production
John Taylor – bass guitar, production
Additional musicians
Technical
