{"id":2443702,"date":"2019-05-02T20:24:56","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T02:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=830712"},"modified":"2019-05-02T20:24:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T02:24:56","slug":"see-jimmy-fallon-the-roots-summon-the-eighties-for-rendition-of-hungry-like-the-wolf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/see-jimmy-fallon-the-roots-summon-the-eighties-for-rendition-of-hungry-like-the-wolf\/","title":{"rendered":"See Jimmy Fallon, the Roots Summon the Eighties for Rendition of \u2018Hungry Like the Wolf\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/jimmy-fallon\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jimmy-fallon\" data-tag=\"jimmy-fallon\">Jimmy Fallon<\/a> and the Roots don sunglasses, colorful ties and suit attire in a neon-lit room to create a suave, Eighties-vibed setting for their cover of Duran Duran\u2019s 1982 classic, \u201cHungry Like the Wolf.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Their rendition is part the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/tonight-show\/\" id=\"auto-tag_tonight-show\" data-tag=\"tonight-show\">Tonight Show<\/a><\/em>\u2018s backstage \u201cCover Room,\u201d which is an online-only music series featuring artists delivering their versions of favorite songs from other artists in a room that is transformed to fit each performance.<\/p>\n<p>In the new clip, they capture the slick new wave ethos of the catchy song from Duran Duran\u2019s sophomore album, <em>Rio<\/em>, as the Roots stay fairly faithful to the propulsive melodies and rhythms and Fallon summons Simon Le Bon\u2019s intense delivery.<\/p>\n<div class=\"admz\" id=\"adm-inline-article-ad-1\">\n<div class=\"adma google-publisher\" data-device=\"Desktop\" data-width=\"620\">\n<div class=\"pmc-adm-goog-pub-div ad-text\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"l-article-content__pull l-article-content__pull--left\">\n<div class=\"c-related\">\n<h4 class=\"c-related__heading t-bold t-bold--upper\">Related<\/h4>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv\/tv-news\/alexander-skarsgard-big-little-lies-tonight-show-jimmy-fallon-830264\/\" class=\"c-related__link\" data-index=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-related__img\">\n<div class=\"c-crop c-crop--size-related\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-02-at-9.40.16-AM.jpg?crop=900:600&amp;width=900\" class=\"c-crop__img wp-post-image\" alt><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h5 class=\"c-related__caption t-bold\">Alexander Skarsgard Recalls Early Gig in Lady Gaga&#8217;s &#8216;Paparazzi&#8217; Video on &#8216;Fallon&#8217;<\/h5>\n<p><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/fontaines-d-c-tonight-show-boys-in-the-better-land-830292\/\" class=\"c-related__link\" data-index=\"2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"c-related__caption t-bold\">Fontaines D.C. Rattle &#8216;Fallon&#8217; With &#8216;Boys in the Better Land&#8217;<\/h5>\n<p><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Previous \u201cCover Room\u201d installments include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/watch-jimmy-fallon-the-roots-cover-billy-veras-at-this-moment-630584\/\">Fallon and the Roots\u2019 rendition of Billy Vera &amp; the Beaters\u2019 \u201cAt this Moment,\u201d<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-country\/see-nathaniel-rateliffs-soulful-cover-of-bruce-springsteens-atlantic-city-128895\/\">Nathaniel Rateliff\u2019s<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-country\/see-nathaniel-rateliffs-soulful-cover-of-bruce-springsteens-atlantic-city-128895\/\">take on Bruce Springsteen\u2019s \u201cAtlantic City\u201d<\/a><span>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/watch-kesha-roots-bluesy-acoustic-take-on-house-of-the-rising-sun-200198\/\">Kesha\u2019s version of the Animals\u2019 \u201cHouse of the Rising Sun.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/jimmy-fallon-the-roots-cover-duran-duran-hungry-like-the-wolf-830712\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Fallon and the Roots don sunglasses, colorful ties and suit attire in a neon-lit room to create a suave, Eighties-vibed setting for their cover of Duran Duran\u2019s 1982 classic, \u201cHungry Like the Wolf.\u201d Their rendition is part the Tonight Show\u2018s backstage \u201cCover Room,\u201d which is an online-only music series featuring artists delivering their versions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2443702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 11:08:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}