"I Don't Want Your Love" is the seventeenth single

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 from Duran Duran

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 and the first single from the Big Thing

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album. It was released on September 1988. As with the album, the band's name was rendered on the artwork as Duranduran.

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 .

The video features the band in a raucous courtroom

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 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

Warren Cuccurullo

Warren Bruce Cuccurullo in Brooklyn, New York is an American rock musician who worked with Frank Zappa, was a founding member of Missing Persons, and has been a long term member of Duran Duran. He also has some notoriety in the porn industry after making nude appearances in a magazine and...

 (playing Kamen's guitar part) and David Palmer, former drummer for ABC

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.

B-sides, bonus tracks and remixes

The single version of "I Don't Want Your Love" was a remix by Shep Pettibone

Shep Pettibone

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. 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

Strange Behaviour

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" remix collection (which strangely didn't use the lead 12" mix entitled "Big Mix").

Chart positions

"I Don't Want Your Love" both debuted and peaked 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, becoming the best-selling single of 1988 in that country. It did very well in the U.S. reaching number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 1 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play.

• # 14 UK Singles Chart
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• # 4 Billboard Hot 100
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• # 13 Billboard Modern Rock Tracks
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• # 1 Billboard Hot Dance Club Play
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• # 1 Italy
• # 8 Canadian CHUM Chart
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• # 15 Swiss Top 30

7": EMI / YOUR 1 - UK

United Kingdom

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1. "I Don't Want Your Love" (7" mix) - 3:48
2. "I Don't Want Your Love" (LP Version) - 4:05

12": EMI / 12 YOUR 1 - UK

1. "I Don't Want Your Love" (Big mix) - 7:33
2. "I Don't Want Your Love" (7" mix) - 3:48
3. "I Don't Want Your Love" (LP Version) - 4:05
   • also available on CD (CD YOUR 1)

12": EMI / 12 YOURDJ1 - UK

1. "I Don't Want Your Love" (Big mix) - 7:33
2. "I Don't Want Your Love" (Dub mix) - 7:34

• UK promo

Other appearances

Aside from the single, "I Don't Want Your Love" has appeared on:

• Big Thing
  Big Thing
  Big Thing is the fifth album by Duran Duran, released worldwide in 1988. It reached #15 in the UK and #24 in the US.A CD reissue was released in 1994. The album is was reissued as a three disc boxset on .- Background :...
  
  (1988)
• Decade: Greatest Hits
  Decade: Greatest Hits
  Decade – Greatest Hits is a greatest hits album by Duran Duran, released on November 15, 1989 .The remix single "Burning the Ground" was released to radio to promote this album; it was created by producer John Jones mixing snippets of the band's biggest hits from the previous decade into a new...
  
  (1989)
• Greatest
  Greatest (Duran Duran album)
  In November 2003, the videotape compilation was released in DVD format, titled Duran Duran: Greatest — The DVD, with hidden extra materials, including alternative versions of some of the videos and interviews of the band, however, this version is much criticised for its extensive use of easter egg...
  
  (1998)

Personnel

Duran Duran are:

• Simon Le Bon
  Simon Le Bon
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   - Vocals
• John Taylor
  Nigel John Taylor
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   - Bass
• Nick Rhodes
  Nick Rhodes
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  - Keyboards

With:

• Chester Kamen - Guitars

Production:

• Duran Duran - Producer
• Jonathan Elias - Producer
• Daniel Abraham - Producer
• Shep Pettibone - Remixer
• Bob Rosa - Remix engineer